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Getting to the Heart of Valentine's Day With Art Lessons

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Valentine's day inspires not just love, but art too! Teachers can find ideas for Valentine's Day activities for all grade levels.
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Valentine’s Counting and Color Sorting Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Reinforce the concept of one-to-one correspondence with a Valentine's Day-themed counting and color sorting activity. Scholars sort foam hearts by color—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple—then count and place them on a number...
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Valentine's Day Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students choose various shapes and colors to create a Valentine's 'person'.  In this Valentine's Day lesson plan, students design collages, make prints and mosaic pictures.  More advanced students create a Tessellation using...
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Making Valentine's Day Cards

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars construct Valentine's Day cards. In this holiday lesson, students use felt, construction paper, markers, and glue to create unique Valentine's Day cards.
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Valentine's Day Pictures

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this artistic Valentine's Day picture worksheet, students view and discuss a picture of a young boy holding up a Valentine's card and then color the picture.
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Heart-Shaped Box

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Here's a Valentine's Day activity that kids will love. Using the templates provided by this resource, kids craft heart-shaped boxes for gifts or to hold small notes or presents
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Class Book: My Favorite Valentine

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars create a class book for Valentine's Day. In this holiday lesson, students draw a picture and write a few sentences about their favorite valentine. Young scholars put their pictures together to create a class book.
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Valentine's Day

For Students 1st
In this Valentine's Day worksheet, 1st graders learn why valentines are given on Valentine's Day. Students circle the box that illustrates the correct reason.
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Heart Mobiles

For Teachers K - 6th
A variation on classic Valentine's Day lessons that is sure to please, your elementary class construct heart mobiles using construction paper, string or yarn, hole punchers, foil, and pencils.
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K-2 Valentine's Day Heart Purse

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students create purses for students to collect classroom Valentine's or treats in. In this Valentine's Day lesson, students create valentines purses out of the given materials to collect their valentine messages in.
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Lace Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create Valentine's Day gifts. In this visual arts lesson, students create a Valentine's Day project using paper doilies pasted onto construction paper. Students frame their art with brown construction paper and give their...
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Mosaic Heart

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create "Mosaic Hearts" in this adaptable art lesson using some old magazines, construction paper, and glue. The lesson includes examples of finished hearts and a materials list. Ideal for a Valentine's Day activity!
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Make Some Valentines

For Students 2nd
In this Valentine's Day activity worksheet, 2nd graders use the clip art to make a Valentine's Day card. They use the verses and pictures in their card.
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Tic Tac Toe Valentine

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this Valentine activity worksheet, learners complete a tic-tac-toe game by cutting out the Valentine block images and using them to play a game of tic-tac-toe.
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Painting in Pink and Red

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners mix red and white to make different hues. In this color mixing lesson, students make a Valentine's Day project with a variety of shades of red and pink. They find the ratio of red and white and the color it creates. 
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Add Valentines

For Students 1st
In this Valentine's Day math instructional activity, 1st graders count the Valentine's Day images for each example. Students are given the answers for the 8 addition problems.
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Valentine's Day Counting

For Students K - 1st
In this counting practice worksheet, students count the number of boxes of chocolates for a Valentine's Day math activity. Students then circle or color the corresponding number.
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Hands That Touch The Heart

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create Valentine's Day hearts in this variation of a classic activity for the early-elementary classroom. The "hands that touch the heart" is a great gift that can be given to family, friends, or fellow students. A materials...
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Put Together the Broken Hearts

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Valentine instructional activity, learners cut apart 12 half hearts and match them to see the decorated message. Students paste the hearts together on a piece of construction paper.
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Valentine Singing/Guessing Game

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students sing songs and explore different vocal sounds. As they sing songs, students discover and mark phrases. They sing songs as a class, in groups, and individually. Students, in groups, play a guessing game with the songs.
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Valentine's Day Counting

For Students K - 1st
In this counting practice worksheet, students count the number of hearts and then circle or color the corresponding number of hearts.
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Hide the Hearts Treasure Hunt

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the themes of Valentines Day by participating in a treasure hunt.  In this holiday lesson, students discover clues written on pink paper hearts which give directions to the location of a gift.  Students locate...
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Holiday Paper Projects for Kids

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
No matter what time of year it is, there's a holiday craft to make! Kindergartners construct several holiday craft projects in a series of holiday art lesson. They complete several paper projects such as 4th of July flags,...
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Valentine Heart Game

For Teachers 1st
First graders clap a rhythm pattern notated on a board, and then make up their own patterns on percussion instruments. They answer addition and subtraction problems.