One of our favorite winter holidays is Valentine's Day. What a fun time to express your fondness for your loved ones. Make this day memorable with one (or more) of these great finds.
Plus, be sure to swing by the Homeschool Buyers Co--op and get your free DIY Valentine Coupon Book here.
Math:
Teach Beside Me: Heart Tessellation - Valentine Math – With this colorful activity explore the geometry of tessellations ("the tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps").
Math Geek Mama: 30+ Valentine's Day Math Ideas for All Ages – You will find a great list of links of math activities, printables, and more to use with kids of all ages at this link.
Math-Drills: Valentine's Day Math Worksheets – Add some fun to your math this week with these thematic worksheets for word problems, graphing, patterns, functions and more.
Language Arts:
Simple Living Creative Learning Valentine Parts of Speech Cards – Get the free 39-page printable pack plus ideas for using the cards for learning activities.
Write Shop: Writing Prompts for Valentine's Day – Use these five creative writing ideas to get the kids thinking (and writing).
Kids Activities: Why I Love You Printable Writing Page – Print out this sweet prompt for your child to fill out and to share why they love someone.
DLKT's Crafts for Kids: Valentine's Day Worksheets – printable word puzzles, word cards, writing paper, mazes and more
Science:
Little Bins Little Hands: 14 Valentine's Day Science Experiments You Want to Try! – Discover the science of crystals, water displacement, density, viscosity, states of matter, solvents and solubility and more with this selection of experiments.
From Engineer to Stay at Home Mom: 35 Valentine's Day Science Experiments – Find links to experiments with food, electricity, slime, everyday ingredients and much more.
Fun-A-Day: 25 Valentine's Day Science Activities to Wow the Kids – Find links to experiments with food, electricity, slime, everyday ingredients and much more.
Electives:
My Fun Piano Studio: Valentines Music Theory Worksheets – Here's a great selection of worksheets to use with your budding musicians. Plus, the blogger also shares ideas for using them in your classroom.
Spanish Playground: Valentine's Day – On this category page, you will need to browse through the posts to locate the ones with printables, but you will find posters, puzzles and more as well as ideas for incorporating Valentine's Day into your Spanish language studies.
Mini Studies:
Freedom Homeschooling: Free Valentine’s Day Unit Study – With this unit study you will find links to resources for history, language arts, online stories, science, math, treats, crafts and more.
As We Walk Along the Road: Valentine's Day Unit Study Resources here and here – Includes a booklist for PreK- Elementary students, and links to language arts, STEM, history, and arts and crafts resources.
A2Zhomeschool: Valentine's Day Unit Study – Explore links and information for arts and craft projects, food traditions, games and puzzles, as well as science, history, language arts math and more.
Misc. Printables:
Easy Teacher Worksheets: Print Valentine's Day Worksheets – Printables include reading and comprehension materials, puzzles, math sheets, word games, bingo cards and more.
Please note: The following sites require you create a free account to access the printables but we felt that these sites provide enough content that it may be worth it to do so.
Education.com: Valentine's Day Worksheets and Printables – On this index page you will find coloring pages, puzzles and other learning activities.
All Kids Network: Valentine's Day Worksheets – There are over 40 worksheets on this page including writing paper, math activities, language arts skills, coloring and more.
Crafts, Games, and More:
Kids Activities: DIY Magnetic Valentine Game Activity – Create this challenging maze game for your kids to play plus additional links to other Valentine Activities at the bottom of the post.
Busy Mommy Media: ASL I-Love-You Craft – Make a cute ASL "I Love You" Valentine's Day card from your child's hand.
Fireflies + Mud Pies: Rainbow Heart Suncatcher – Adorn your windows with this pretty craft that is simple and creative for children of all ages.
Live Laugh Rowe: Valentine’s Day I Spy Printable – Kids will enjoy "spying" out the cute objects in this colorful printable.
Crayola: Valentine's Day – Check out the bingo cards, tags and coloring pages at this page of the Crayola website. You may also enjoy the crafts projects here too.
Busy Bee Kids Printables.com: Valentine Printables – Browse through a variety of coloring pages, mazes, word searches, cards, math worksheets for little learners and more.
Need more inspiration? Check out these sites with loads of Valentine's Day themed ideas:
Hip Homeschool Moms: Valentine’s Day Activities, Lessons, and Printables and Even More Valentine’s Day Printables, Activities, and Ideas
I Choose Joy: 25 Inspired Ideas for Valentine’s Day in Your Homeschool from
Every Bed of Roses: 50 Valentine's Resources {2018 version}
*As always, please be sure to preview these sites prior to allowing children to visit them to determine appropriateness for your family.