Easy Valentine’s Day activities, art projects, and lessons for the classroom! Create a memorable Valentine’s Day for your students with these simple and fun crafts and activities.
Heart Fingerprint Art
This fun project keeps students’ hands busy and is so fun! Using colored paper, cut out heart shapes as small or big as you want. Make at least one for each student. Then, provide the students with white paper and use a small piece of rolled tape to attach the heart to the middle of the page. Using pink and purple paint, have students polka-dot the page with their fingerprints! Then remove the heart cut-out for a white-shaped heart on the page, surrounded by colorful dots. They can even use the white space to dedicate the valentine to a special someone.
Materials Needed
- Pink, red, and purple construction paper
- White 9″ x 11″ construction paper
- Tape
- Pink and purple finger paint
Directions:
- Cut out hearts using the colored construction paper.
- Tape the hearts to the center of the white paper.
- Using the finger paint, make polka dots all over your page.
- Then, remove the taped heart to reveal a white heart shape in the middle of the page.
Valentine’s Day Art Projects
This unit presents three creative art projects for Valentine’s Day! The first project is making woven paper heart valentine cards, a fun twist on a classic project. The second teaches students how to make a heart-shaped paper basket, so students can carry all their handmade valentines! The last project is making a chain of hearts for a creative valentine. Each unit comes with instructions, a list of materials, and patterns. Get this art project on Teachers Pay Teachers here.
Cupid Tops & Bottoms
This activity is a writing and art project, perfect for Valentine’s Day! Students can follow writing prompts such as describing how to make a valentine, writing about Cupid’s job, and other fun holiday-themed prompts. The unit includes teacher directions and Cupid top & bottom reproducibles. Purchase this writing activity on Teachers Pay Teachers here.
Folded Paper Valentine Holder
This unit includes step-by-step illustrated directions for how to create a paper folding valentine holder, perfect for the holiday! The unit includes a materials list, instructions, and an illustrated completed project. Find this activity on Teachers Pay Teachers here.
Pocket Book for Valentine’s Day
This unit contains detailed directions on how to make a Valentine’s Day pocket book! The unit supplies a variety of activities and patterns so your students can be creative with their project. The pocket book includes information about the holiday, writing prompts, and art projects. Purchase this pocket book unit on Teachers Pay Teachers here.
Valentine’s Day Activities: Writing, Secret Codes, and Puzzles!
This unit has several fun holiday activities: writing contractions, using codes to solve a Valentine’s message, matching sets of words on hearts, writing Valentine’s Day rhymes, and completing a crossword puzzle. Get this unit here, on the Teachers Pay Teachers website.
Valentine Marshmallow Tower
These STEM projects are simple, easy, and fun! All they require is a little tweak in supplies with valentine-themed marshmallows and toothpicks. Challenge your students to build a tower made of just these materials without it falling over. These robust units include: a teacher support page, science concept and visual literacy pages, a challenge page, a suggested materials list, and design and redesign process pages. Everyone gets a sweet reward when they’re finished.
Grade 1 STEM Tower unit
Grade 3 STEM Tower unit
Valentine’s Art Projects: Cupid’s Bow and Tissue Paper Hearts
This unit presents four art projects, like making Cupid’s bow and arrow out of paper plates and pipe cleaners, a broken heart card, a pair of paper love birds, and a tissue paper heart! All projects come with a materials list, directions, and reproducibles. Find these art projects on Teachers Pay Teachers here.
Encourage students to make their own Valentine’s Day crafts and teach them about the history of Valentine’s Day!
A Brief History of Valentine’s Day
History.com provides interesting facts and information to share with students, including the legend of St. Valentine and the origins of Valentine’s Day.
Fun fact: Valentine’s Day is named after St. Valentine, who was a Christian bishop in the Roman Empire, and who is now remembered as a martyr. February 14, Valentine’s Day, was chosen to be the holiday to replace a pagan Roman festival that happened the same day, which celebrated fertility and marriage. People have been writing valentine cards for centuries, the oldest known valentine being a note from a husband to his wife in 1400s England!
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Christine Wooler has experience working with children as a youth soccer coach and summer camp counselor. She is currently studying English Literature and journalism in college. She enjoys exploring educational topics that help students have fun while learning.