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Getting to the Heart of Valentine's Day With Art Lessons
Valentine's day inspires not just love, but art too! Teachers can find ideas for Valentine's Day activities for all grade levels.
Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds
Valentine’s Counting and Color Sorting Activity
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.