Six Awesome Valentine’s Day Activities for your Class

Valentine’s Day is an excellent opportunity to teach your students values that will stay with them for life. Valentine’s Day encourages kindness between classmates. By making a kind gesture for their classmates, they learn to be selfless. Compassion is a quality that will serve them throughout their lifetime.

Valentine’s Day is a day of love! You get your class to learn about expressing love and the way love shapes their world.

The day also promotes friendship. Students can strengthen the bonds between their friends by sharing how much they love and care for them. You can also share stories with your class of the power of friendship.

Best of all Valentine’s Day allows you to be creative. With some simple items, your class can learn all these qualities while growing their creative, artistic, and design abilities.  Here are six excellent activities, you can try with your class to celebrate the day of love!

1. Design Your Cards

Valentine’s Day is a great time to exchange cards expressing appreciation. Let your class create cards for each other, and also their parents and siblings. In the cards, they can write a poem or thoughtful phrase that they make up, encouraging their creativity.

2. Create Valentine’s Day Boxes

With some cardboard, markers, and glitter, your class can create fun boxes where they can keep their Valentine’s Day cards, notes, and gifts each year. You can even have this as a homework assignment. Let your students create them at home and bring them in to be entered in a class contest.

3. Decorate the Door

Have your class come up with a fun theme for the classroom door. Then, with some construction paper, glue (or tape) you can create a special message of love and kindness for others to see. If you want to get the other classes in your school involved, turn it into a fun competition.

4. Friendship Bracelets

Nothing says love more than a friendship bracelet. With some string and beaded letters, your class can create and swap bracelets with their friends. You can also have them discuss the best things about having friends, and share some examples of great friendships. Celebrating friendship also is handy if your school does not encourage celebrating Valentine’s Day.

Two Awesome Valentine’s Day Resources

Straight from the TpT store, a friend of mine from Learn and Beans put together these fun resources to make Valentine’s Day a fun, learning experience. I was so excited to use these. They were so effective in my class!

5.Valentines Day Writing Craft

These Writing Crafts come with four face options that your students can color and add to cards. These can be paired with one of the nine writing templates than encourages the kids to write about Love, Friends, Kindness, or whatever comes to mind. These crafts can be added to cards or exchanged as Valentine’s in the classroom.

6.Valentine’s Day Math Puzzles

Who knew math and love go hand in hand? There’s a secret message in this printable activity.
To solve Valentine’s day message, students must use math to decode the message. With one
addition and one subtraction puzzle,  kids can team up or take it on their own. Make it competitive!
First to solve the puzzle gets a prize!

These activities can be used at almost any stage from Pre-K to 6th Grade. Find ways to make them
more appealing and challenging to your students. Valentine’s Day is a great time to bring your class
together. Use the momentum of love, kindness, and cooperation to fuel your teaching for the rest of
the school term!