Valentine’s Day Activities for Preschoolers

by | Jan 31, 2025

Valentine’s Day is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate love, kindness, and friendship with your preschoolers in fun and meaningful ways! Enjoy the month of February (and the day of love) with these arts and crafts, games, and learning activities that can help young children explore the spirit of the season.

Here are some easy-to-do Valentine’s Day activities that promote learning, creativity, and social-emotional growth—perfect for making the day extra special for your little ones. These can be great ideas to fill your Valentine’s day with fun or spread the joy throughout the month.

Why is it important to teach preschoolers about Valentine’s Day?

Teaching preschoolers about Valentine’s Day is a great way to introduce them to important concepts like kindness, empathy, and friendship. It helps them understand the value of expressing love and appreciation for others in a simple, age-appropriate way.

Through hands-on activities, children can practice sharing, giving, and showing care, all of which are essential skills for their social and emotional development. Celebrating the holiday in the classroom fosters a sense of community and teaches them to recognize and celebrate the connections they have with their peers.

What kind of Valentine’s Day activities can you do with preschoolers?

There are so many fun and educational Valentine’s Day activities you can do with preschoolers that encourage creativity, fine motor skills, and social-emotional development. Consider some of the ideas below such as heart shaped art, Valentine’s day cards, writing poems about friendship, putting together yummy snacks and playing with themed sensory bins.

Valentine’s Day Crafts & Activities for Preschoolers

These hands-on crafts and activities are also a great opportunity to talk about kindness and how we show appreciation for others, making the holiday have true meaning behind it. Enjoy creating themed snacks, keepsakes and maybe even some messy activities to make things extra festive!

21 Free Printable Heart Templates

These cut outs are perfect for heart shaped anything! Make cards out of them, add them to projects, decorate the room/class with them- the options are endless!

Valentine’s Day Activity Pack: Free Printables

This set of printables works for preschoolers and pre-kindergarten-aged children and offers 11 free pages of learning. It includes worksheets covering early math skills and letter recognition.

Valentine Roll + Cover – Free Printable

Understanding and identifying numbers is an important skill that all kids will learn as they move through preschool. Make learning early math skills fun with a Valentine’s Day theme this winter!

Included in this free printable is both a full color and black and white option that are a perfect way for your preschooler to practice and enhance their beginning math skills.

I Love You Handprint Craft

Trying to decide how fill the month of February with kindness and friendship for your littles? I have you covered with 21 pages of activities to keep them engaged, learning and focused on kindness!

(P.S. You can get this AND all my other themed lesson plans and activities for FREE when you join my TL membership.)

Coffee Filter Hearts for Kids

Using coffee filters, markers and a dropper filled with water- your littles can create beautiful hearts! The water causes a tie-die look which makes this even cooler. A very simple craft that they’ll be in awe of!

Yarn Paper Plate Heart Craft

A fine motor skill craft is one of my favorite kinds of crafts! Not only will they work on their skills but they will be creating a masterpiece and all out of paper plates and yarn- LOVE!

Heart Hopscotch

For this version of hopscotch all you need is colored cardstock, markers, painters tape, and some lids. There are different ways to play this to meet your little at whatever skill they are at. Create different challenges or just work on their number recognition.

Love Bug Name Craft

Making this adorable little guy is so simple, adorable and allows your little to practice quite a few skills while they’re making it including scissor skills, handwriting, and the alphabet!

DIY Valentine’s Gifts for Kids

This may take a day or two because of the paint and glue but they will be so worth it! Your littles can customize their Valentine’s gifts/cards to hand out to the class or friends in their sports, neighborhood, etc. They will be unique and so special to give out to their best of friends!

Grow Crystal Hearts For Valentine’s Day

This experiment is a fun way to explore the science of solutions, saturation, and crystallization while making a beautiful Valentine’s Day decoration. Plus, it’s a great introduction to how crystals grow in nature—like salt, sugar, or even gemstones!

Valentines Baking Soda Vinegar Experiment

This Valentine’s day potion mixing tray is just that! Simple, fun, and engaging for young kids and great for early childhood development. Who doesn’t like to mix potions and concoctions? Enjoy simple chemistry for Valentine’s Day!

Beaded Heart Craft for Valentine’s Day

These beaded heart ornaments are a fun Valentine’s Day craft for kids to make this year!  These Valentine hearts are simple to make and a great way to practice patterns, fine motor skills, and color recognition for kids. 

This sweet craft is also a great one to hand out to their friends or loved ones!

Strawberry Shortcake Playdough

This delicious smelling play doh will have your kids asking if you can bake a strawberry cake too! It smells so wonderful and is a great sensory activity to make during Valentine’s day.

Valentine’s Day Sensory Bin

Using dyed rice and dollar store materials, the Valentine theme comes to life for toddlers and preschoolers. This sensory bin can be saved for years of future Valentine’s. It’ll make dying the rice worth it!

Heart Beginning Sound Punch Cards – Free Printable

Included in this free printable is a set of 26 beginning sound punch cards that are a perfect way for your preschooler or students to practice and enhance their beginning reading skills. There are 6 hearts per page, each with its own letter, and several pictures to choose from for the beginning sound.

Easy Crunchy Floam Slime

Crunchy slime?! This sounds like sensory heaven! My little one would go crazy for this slime!

Glitter Slime

This glitter slime is so pretty and perfect for the occasion! Your littles will love it and have so much fun helping to make it as well!

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Free Printable Valentine Counting Clip Cards for Preschool

This is a simple and fun game for toddlers! All you have to do is cut a heart in a box and grab some ping pong balls from your local store!

Your littles can help decorate the box, which will make it extra fun!

Valentine’s Day Worksheets- Coloring, Tracing, & Copying

14 pages to color pictures of Valentine’s Day holiday items, trace letters of the words, and copy the letters on the lines. These are a great addition to coloring pages because not only will your littles have fun coloring but they’ll be working on tracing and letter recognition.

Handprint Heart Valentine Craft

Fold your piece of cardstock in half. Trace your child’s hand close to the fold, making sure that the thumb and pointer finger slightly lap over the edge. Continue following the instructions provided to create this sweet masterpiece perfect for Valentine’s day.

Love Bugs

These little love bugs are sure to make anyone smile- especially your little who is creating them! Whether they make them for pretend play or to hand out to friends and loved ones for their Valentine’s day gift, these will be a hit to create.

Valentine’s Day DIY Ring Toss

Ring toss is simple game that is great for littles to work on their fine and gross motor skills along with their coordination. Not only will they have fun but you can all enjoy customizing the bottles to be Valentine’s day themed.

Heart Spin Painting

Place one heart shape at a time in your old salad spinner (not used for food any more) and squeeze on your paint. Not only will your littles be amazed over the interesting patterns they’ve created but they’ll have a blast doing it. This is a fun fine motor activity too!

Footprint Heart

Foot prints are a memory you can hold onto forever. There is something so sweet about little feet especially as our kids grow up. Creating this masterpiece for Valentine’s day will forever be a memory of how small they once were.

Valentine’s Sun Catchers

These sun catchers are stunning (and so fun to create) and can be left up all spring time too! Create heart shaped and even flower shaped sun catchers to hang up around the house.

Valentine Play Dough

Playdoh is a great activity all the time but creating a theme with it takes it to the next level! Create a station for your kids with themed beads, oipe cleaners, googly eyes, and whatever else you have on hand. You can swap for air dry clay if they want to keep their creations too.

Heart Shaped Rice Cereal Treats

Homemade rice crispies… with Valentine’s day M&Ms? Yes please! Make these for your house, your neighbors, even the class on a day to celebrate kindness, friendship and love! Everyone will enjoy them.

Love You Berry Much Handprint Craft

What better way to say I love you than saying “I love you BERRY much!” The hand print as a strawberry is adorable and a wonderful keepsake.

DIY Valentines Peg Board

A homemade peg board is quite genius if you ask me. Not only are these simple to make, they can be used as a fine motor activity at home, in the class and even on the go. These are so simple to make you can customize them to whatever holiday or season it is.

Build Your Own Valentine’s Day Snack Mix

You can either download the free printable provided to grab the exact same treats or add in your own snacks of choice. Using ziplock bags, cute cups or trays, your littles can build their own mix that include Valentine’s day themed treats.

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However you choose to celebrate Valentine’s day (or the month of February at that) just know that filling it with love, kindness, friendship and positivity will make all the difference for your littles.

Gifts can be simple, they can be luxurious but what matters the most is how you spend your time all together. If you are looking for a way to spend quality time at home or have your class bonding, we know these activities will help support that goal!