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Go beyond paper hearts, and guide your students through explorations of candy heart erosion, Valentine’s Day writing prompts, and other fun Valentine’s Day activities that spark a love of learning. These activities are easy to level for every learner and can turn your usual routine into a memorable experience. 

Play with words using ELA Valentine’s Day activities

Valentine’s Day creates the perfect opportunity for incorporating creativity and kindness into ELA and reading curricula. Explore Valentine’s Day activities for students, like a quirky writing prompt, Valentine’s Day word search, or fun sentence pattern challenge that meets CCSS for writing. 

Easily adjust the rigor by using sentence frames and word banks for younger learners, or by challenging older students to expand ideas, revise for voice and structure, and support their writing with evidence. Use these as energizing warm-ups, small group explorations, or independent practice to make learning feel like a celebration.

• Spread the Love: Write kind sentences that share positive thoughts about other classmates.
• Talk from the Heart: Students respond to friendship prompts and share ideas with others.
• Write a Thank You Valentine: Create a short gratitude note to show appreciation for school workers. 
• Take a Sweet Stand: Share and defend opinions in lighthearted Valentine-themed debates.
• Build Love Emoji Stories: Use Valentine emojis to brainstorm and write a short story. 
• Speak from the Heart: Perform or share heart-themed poems in a poetry slam.
• Build a LOVE poem:  Students write an acrostic poem using VALENTINE or LOVE.

Valentine’s Day: Roses Are Red Close-Read and Poetry Writing 
By Lalula Lifetime Learning
Grades: 2nd-4th

The packet gives you a whole unit designed around poetry and Valentine’s Day. It starts with close reading and comprehension questions. Students then work to create their own “Roses are red…” poem. 

Valentine’s Day Analogies PowerPoint and Self-Checking Easel Activities 
By HappyEdugator
Grades: 3rd-6th
Standards: CCSS RI.8.4, L.4.4, L.5.4

Created using Microsoft PowerPoint, this resource includes 46 pages and 20 Easel activity pages. The interactive, self-checking slides support critical thinking and logical reasoning and can be used for whole-class instruction or centers. 

Roll a Story – Valentine’s Day Creative Writing Activity – Digital + Print 
By Language Arts Lessons by Lauren
Grades: 6th-12th
Standards: CCSS CCRA.W.3, W.6, W.10

Available in a digital or hard copy format, this resource features colorable storyboards, story slide packets, colorable story templates, and editable instructions. You can have students roll real or digital dice to start creating a story framework. 

VALENTINE WRITING PROMPTS: 26 Activity Sheets, 52 Writing Prompts – Digital
By Literary Sherri
Grades: 7th-9th
Standards: CCSS W.7.2, 7.3, 7.4

This resource contains 26 worksheets and 52 writing prompts covering Valentine traditions and fun trivia. There are also editable card tasks and two grading rubrics. 

Valentine’s Day Reading Activity for Middle and High School 
By Yaddy’s Room
Grades: 7th-10th
Standards: CCSS RL.8.4, 9-10.1, 9-10.4

In addition to an answer key, this seven-page PDF includes fun activities about the origins of Valentine’s Day and stereotypes. It also explores the author’s purpose and inference by analyzing an Edgar Allan Poe piece.  

Sentence Patterns Grammar Worksheets for Valentine’s Day 
By Charlene Tess
Grades: 9th-12th
Standards: CCSS CCRA.L.1, L.2, L.3

Within this asset, you’ll find 20 different Valentine’s Day sentences following various sentence structures to help students identify patterns, phrases, and clauses. You have the option to print out the resource or assign a digital copy in Google Classroom. 

Practice Spanish writing with Valentine’s Day prompts

Let students write from the heart in español. Valentine’s Day prompts in Spanish encourage simple sentences, familiar vocabulary, and creative expression, and are fun to use for kids of all ages. 

Additionally, these Valentine’s Day activities for kids can easily be leveled by offering sentence frames or word banks for younger kids. To reach older learners, encourage them to expand their responses with descriptive language or use short paragraphs to explain their thinking. 

• Assemble a Love Collage in Spanish: Create a Valentine’s collage and add descriptive captions. 
• Fill the Heart: As a class, fill a bulletin board heart with short Spanish sentences about love. 
• Match the Message: Students match Valentine pictures to Spanish phrases. 
• Rearrange the Spanish Poem: Mix up the lines of a Spanish love poem and challenge students to organize it. 

Valentine’s Day in Spanish Writing Activities 1st, 2nd and 3rd Grade
By Pasito a pasito
Grades: 1st-3rd

Enhance the culture in your classroom by exploring Spanish writing and comprehension. Within the package, you get access to 11 writing activities, including creative writing prompts, friendship notes, and a Venn diagram. 

Add to your Valentine’s Day fun with math activities

From heart graphs to holiday sorting, Valentine’s Day math brings a love of numbers to life. Add Valentine’s Day printables, themed word problems, pattern puzzles, or logic challenges as engaging warm-ups or center work. Easily adjust the level of difficulty to meet the needs of younger students by using manipulatives or similar problems. Challenge older students with multi-step problem-reasoning tasks and real-world applications. 

• Crack Cupid’s Codes: Have students solve Valentine-themed coding and pattern challenges to reveal a festive heart picture. 
• Solve Love-Themed Logic Puzzles: Use reasoning and deduction to complete logic activities centered on the day of love. 
• Create Equation Heart Art: Turn math equations into heart-shaped designs and patterns. 
• Decipher Secret Love Numbers: Finish number problems to unlock a Valentine’s Day phrase. 

Fraction Task Cards | Valentine’s Day Theme | Grade 3 
By The Playbook
Grades: 3rd

Within this comprehensive package, teachers get access to 12 task cards, a recording sheet, and an answer sheet for candy bar fractions, equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, and more. The entire package includes 30 pages of 72 task cards for teachers to enjoy. 

Feel the chemistry with Valentine’s Day activities

Turn candy hearts, red liquids, and sweet treats into hands-on science investigations. Students can test erosion with candy hearts, explore dissolving rates, or examine density with colored liquids to reinforce key science concepts. Teachers can fit these activities into lab days or a quick demonstration to connect seasonal fun to a curriculum designed around NGSS. 

• Observe Candy Changes: Conduct a melting experiment on different Valentine’s Day candies and record results. 
• Mix Love Potions: Combine different essential oils, and explore the scents they create to make the perfect love scent. 
• Measure Heartbeats: Track and analyze heart rates before and after activities to explore the body’s response to excitement and movement. 
• Layer Sweet Liquids: Create a rainbow Valentine drink by layering liquids of different densities. 

Valentine Candy Heart Erosion Lab | An Earth Science Experiment 
By Kimberly Scott Science
Grades: 3rd-6th
Standards: NGSSMS-ESS2-2, MS-ESS2-1, 4-ESS2-1

This hands-on activity features teacher background information, activity pages with two variables, a reading passage, and an answer key. It’s designed to be completed in a 30-minute lab. 

Create cross-curricular classroom cupids with TPT 

Add energy and creativity to your classroom on Valentine’s Day through activities, engaging everyone from shy kindergartners to your senior students. These creative themed activities take learning beyond the ordinary, adding a little pizzazz while keeping students curious and excited. Explore additional Valentine’s Day resources to add even more creativity to your planning.