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Printable Story Starter: The Missing Valentines
A writing prompt about a classroom's missing Valentines allows students to finish the story with their own endings, and to provide their own titles. The lesson comes with a picture and the beginning of the story to full prompt students...
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Valentine's Day Booklet
Students create a Valentine's Day booklet. In this creating a book lesson, students write and illustrate their own book describing love.
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Valentine's Day Poems
Roses are red, violets are blue, poems are sweet, and educational too.
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Dia de San Valentin
Students listen and repeat various phrases associated with Valentine's Day. Then they design their own heart-shaped Valentine for someone, using the Spanish phrases they learned.
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Valentine Candy Count
Students investigate what color Valentine Candy is found more often than any other in a standard bag of "Valentine Conversation Hearts." They sort, classify and graph their findings.
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Singing: "I Mailed Myself to You"
Keeping a steady beat, singing soft, loud, and in unison - sounds like music class to me! First graders practice these skills while listening to the song, "I Mailed Myself to You" for Valentine's Day. This is a simple and age appropriate...
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Valentines Roses
Students create bouquets of roses using tissue paper, pipe cleaners, masking tape, paint, and construction paper in this early elementary art lesson. A possible extension includes making Vlentine's Day cards to go along with the flowers.
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Healthy Heart
Students discover the power of their heart and provide an opportunity to talk about ways to maintain good health. In this early childhood heart lesson, students diagram a human heart, identify exercises that promote a healthy heart, and...
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Preparing for a Valentine's Day Party
Here are some tips to make a Valentine's Day party run smoothly.
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Bottle Cap Locket
Students create "bottle cap lockets" using bottle caps, ribbon, small photos, and beads in this elementary Art lesson ideal for Valentine's Day or special occasions. The lesson suggests using the "Polaroid i-Zone Mini Instant Camera"...
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Mosaic Heart
Young scholars 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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Box O' Love
Students create a Valentines Day poem using an empty cereal box as their canvas. In this poetry lesson, students create their poems using rhyming words and create sentences.
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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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Show You Care
Students construct a four-line poem to be used on the inside of a Valentine's Day card. They use a digital camera to show themselves to their "buddies" (local nursing home patients) who receive the cards on Valentine's Day.
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Heart to Heart
Candy conversation hearts make writing a sweet pastime. Fifth graders write narratives demonstrating a complete thought and correct punctuation. The trick here is that they must use the words on five candy conversation hearts as part of...
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Blossom and Snappy Go to the Post Office
First graders label three major holidays on a February calendar. In this calendar lesson plan, 1st graders watch a video about and discuss Valentine's Day, President's Day and Arbor Day. Students label these three holidays on a February...
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Fringe My Heart
Students create fringed Valentine's Day hearts in this Art lesson for the elementary school classroom. The lesson includes step-by-step instructions and a materials list. This was created by an 11-year old who loves arts and crafts.
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Valentine Marbles
if you've ever had to guess how many items were in a jar, then this problem is for you! With a big jar full of red and white marbles, does picking a sample of 16 allow your learners to get a good estimate on the percentages of each...
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Valentine Handprint Poem
Students make a handprint underneath a Valentine poem to give to their parents. In this Valentine poem lesson plan, students also glue conversation hearts around the edge of the page for a border.
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Mother's Day Craft
Students create a flower pot for their mom on mother's day. They use pictures found in magazines to create a collage on the flower pot. They are to follow instructions to complete this lesson plan.
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Singles Awareness Day
In this Singles Awareness Day worksheet, students complete activities such as complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled...
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Valentine's Kindness
Students learn about kindness. In this kindness lesson, students bring a stuffed animal from home and discuss times they have felt sad and what they have done to cheer up others. Students discuss why it is important to be kind. An...
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Valentine Mailbox for Infants
Students create valentine mailboxes. In this Valentines lesson, students create an infant mailbox out of a clean unused diaper. They decorate the diaper with their name and picture.
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Woven Heart Baskets
Students create "woven heart baskets using construction paper or gift wrap and basic art supplies in this upper-elementary art activity for Valentine's Day. The activity includes a short materials list and step by step instructions.