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Valentine's Day Activities: Preschool + Up

Let love take center stage this Valentine's Day through heart-to-heart connections with your kids, Mama! These are most appropriate for kids aged 3+ but use your best judgement about your little one's readiness and interest!

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ACTIVITY #1: Musical Hearts

This fun interactive activity for kids all ages gets them moving and burns some energy.

ITEMS:

  • Cut out hearts (Self-made or purchased from a craft store)

  • Sharpie or marker

  • Music playing device like a phone or tablet

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Write different activities on the hearts (run in place, give a high five, do ten jumping jacks, skip across the room, bark like a dog, sing your ABC’s, hug someone)

  2. Place them on the floor in a circle

  3. Ask the kids to walk in a circle while the music plays

  4. When you stop the music, they pick the heart closest to them and perform the activity.

  5. Repeat for as long as you would like.

If you have older kids, let them create and write the ideas. Lauren shares, “My 10 and 7-year-olds love creating their own ideas and adding some really fun ones to the circle.”

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ACTIVITY #2: Finger Painting Heart Craft

Create a masterpiece or a gift for family members!

ITEMS:

  • Cut-out hearts (Self-made or purchased from a craft store)

  • Full-size paper or construction paper

  • Finger paint

  • Tape (Painter tape works great)

  • Paper plate

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Use the same heart cutouts from Activity #1

  2. Tape it to the center of a white piece of paper

  3. Add finger paint to the paper plate and allow the kids to paint around the heart

  4. Once it dries, carefully pull off the heart

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ACTIVITY #3: Letter Match

My 4 and 6 year olds LOVE this activity. Easy to modify for older and younger kids -- instead of matching letters, match upper and lowercase, or even make it math by writing numbers on the hearts and math problems on the paper. For younger kids, try drawing shapes on the hearts and matching shapes on the paper, or putting dots on the hearts and the corresponding numbers on the paper. The possibilities are endless!

ITEMS:

  • Cut-out hearts (Self-made or purchased from a craft store)

  • Large sheet of paper (Or use chalk outside)

  • Markers

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Write each letter of the alphabet on the cut out hearts.

  2. Write each letter on the piece of paper (or on the sidewalk in chalk)

  3. Ask the kiddo to match the letters on the heart to the letter on the paper.

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ACTIVITY #4: Candy Heart Pickup

This is simple but great for all ages! Littles practice working with the tongs to strengthen their fine motor skills, while older kids challenge themselves to stack the most hearts in a certain amount of time.

ITEMS:

  • Candy hearts

  • Small tongs or large tweezers

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Make small piles of candy hearts on the table.

  2. Ask each kiddo to use the tongs or tweezers to stack the hearts.

  3. Instead of stacks, try forming letters, numbers, and shapes too

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ACTIVITY #5: VALENTINE’S SNACKS

Heart-Shaped Cinnamon Rolls:

ITEMS:

  • Pre-made cinnamon rolls

  • Sheet pan

  • Parchment paper

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Line the sheet pan with the parchment paper

  2. Unravel the cinnamon rolls

  3. Let the kiddo reform the roll in the shape of a heart

Heart Shaped Quesadillas

ITEMS:

  • Heart-shaped cookie cutter

  • Your favorite quesadilla recipe

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Follow your recipe to create quesadillas for your family.

  2. Using the cookie cutter, create hearts out of each quesadilla