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25 VALENTINE'S DAY GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
Posted by Erica Jabali
Valentine’s Day is such a fun holiday to celebrate in the classroom and can be
used to foster generosity and teamwork. Use these ideas to create a curriculum
that focuses on overarching themes of kindness and love for all. By
incorporating these easy, affordable Valentine’s Day games and activities,
you’ll be on your way to creating the most memorable month of kindness ever.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VALENTINE’S DAY IDEAS
1. Make Valentine’s Day Slime - Celebrate the day by making red slime with fun
add-ins! This is especially well-suited for science class or elementary
schools where slime is a big win.
2. Use Heart Estimation Jars - Elementary school kids love estimating. Fill a
jar with Sweetheart candies and have students mull over how many are in the
jar. Or, have more estimation fun and create a series of jars with different
amounts of various Valentine’s Day-inspired candies. Students can use a
paper chart to note their estimations and the student who gets the most
correct (or closest) gets a prize!
3. Make Heart Marshmallow Toothpick Structures - Many elementary classes enjoy
the simple marshmallow and toothpick STEM activity. Make it pink and use
heart-shaped marshmallows to recreate it into a fun Valentine’s Day learning
activity.
4. Craft Beaded Hearts - With simple supplies such as pipe cleaners and beads,
students can create heart-shaped beaded crafts. Shape the pipe cleaner into
a heart and thread beads on until you are finished. Then, twist the ends
together to ensure the beads don’t fall off.
5. Design a Valentine’s Day Play-doh Table - Mix large batches of Play-doh in
colors like pink, red and purple, and add in some sparkles and other add-ins
to customize it further. Then, put out shaped cookie cutters, like angels,
hearts, stars and more, to create a Play-doh rotation table all kids will
love.
6. Create Heart Pockets - You might remember these from your own classroom as a
kid. Using two sheets of paper, cut the same size heart, punch holes along
the bottom V of the heart and thread yarn through to create a pocket. Then,
decorate!
7. Add Things I Heart - Using the heart-shaped pocket they created, have
students draw pictures of the things they heart (love) in their lives. For
older students, they can write the associating words on the other side.
Examples can be people, pets, sports, food, things and more that make the
student feel happy and loved. Put these pictures inside the heart.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Collect snacks for a Valentine's Day class party with a sign up. View an Example
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Make a Heart Collage - Use small pieces of crepe paper in hues of pinks and
reds to create a heart collage. All you’ll need is construction paper, glue,
and colored paper to create this beautiful art piece that can be displayed
on the wall.
2. Make Valentine’s Day Sensory Bottles - Sensory bottles are great for
teaching emotional regulation. A month or so before Valentine’s Day, start
drinking water bottles that have the right shape for a sensory bottle and
saving them. Then, on the day of, find an easy sensory bottle recipe, such
as the Valentine’s Day Sensory Bottle post featured on Teaching Mama and
make them in class.
3. Do Acts of Kindness - Find or create a printable with easy acts of kindness
that students of all ages can incorporate into their daily lives, such as
the free version available on I Spy Fabulous. Have them track their acts of
kindness over a period of time, such as the days leading up to Valentine’s
Day or even the entire month. For added fun, make it a competition with
other classes and see which class can be the kindest!
4. Play the Action Hearts Game - Print out this free Action Hearts game and
enjoy! This easy game asks students to take turns turning over hearts and
completing the elementary school friendly actions. Or, create your own
version to suit your particular students.
5. Create a Heart Tree - On a classroom wall, create the stump and bare
branches of a tree. Then, have each student decorate a large heart cut out
of a piece of construction paper. Ask them to decorate that heart however
they like. It can be a reflection of them, their interests, their favorite
things, or simply artistic and beautiful. Then, use the hearts to create the
leaves of the tree, showing how each person adds their own unique beauty to
the tree of life.
6. Make-Your-Own Valentines - Not all students have access to buying or making
their own valentines at home, but it’s a day everyone should enjoy. So, let
parents know that this will be taken care of inside the classroom. Print
some easy, free templates and set up four or five stations in the classroom.
Each student gets to pick which valentine they would like to make. Provide
class time for students to craft their valentines. You can have each student
select four or so other students they’ll be crafting for (ensuring all
students are picked equally) or give them enough time to make a large enough
batch for the full class.
MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL VALENTINE’S DAY IDEAS
1. Have a Door Decorating Contest - You’ll need school-wide or at least a
department-wide agreement to do this one but grab your best art supplies and
have students create a door design in honor of Valentine’s Day. Decide how
far in advance you’ll be decorating, but at least decorate before the actual
day, so you can do some of the other activities on this list on the actual
holiday.
2. Create a Love Campaign - Have students create a campaign encouraging people
to be kind and show love to one another. Their campaign should include a
slogan or tagline, an image or icon to go with their brand, and a short, fun
commercial-length presentation. Working in groups works especially well for
projects like this, and you can add a presentation component on Valentine’s
Day. Consider videotaping the best campaigns in each class and featuring
them at school-wide assemblies to encourage kindness all around. Always get
student permission before featuring, though, to maintain trust within the
classroom.
3. Play-Do Story Creation - If you’re thinking your middle-school students
don’t want to play with Play-doh — think again! Bring it up to their level
by taking a simple story they are studying and break it into scenes. Then,
on Valentine’s Day, break them into groups of four and have each group
recreate one scene from the story using Play-doh. Make sure that the groups
go in order of the way the scenes appear in the story. Give them a specific
period of time to complete their scenes. After every group is finished, have
students walk the gallery of scenes to see the whole story come to life in
Play-doh.
4. Do a Poetry Reading - Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to bring poetry
to life. A week or two leading up to Valentine’s Day, teach a poetry unit
featuring some of the greatest poets of all time, including some of the
poems from heart-broken poets, too. Then, talk about the rise of slam poetry
and have students create their own slam poems. Brave students can perform
their slam poetry in front of the class!
5. Play Kindness BINGO - Print blank BINGO cards or create your own that have
ideas for ways they can show kindness to others. This is a great opportunity
to incorporate anti-bullying ideas your school is working on and then play a
fun game of bingo. Use sweetheart candies or another festive Valentine’s Day
treat (plastic gems or pink and red puffs work well for non-candy schools)
and enjoy playing!
6. Have a Kindness Challenge - Give students extra incentive to be kind to one
another by creating a school-wide kindness challenge! For this to work, have
each teacher pick another classroom at random and keep it a secret. Then,
the teacher works with their classroom to create a series of kind acts that
they will do to encourage and be kind to the classroom they selected. This
can be stretched to last the entire week of Valentine’s Day. By the end of
the week, the classrooms should try to guess which class had theirs and
hopefully it is obvious!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sell flowers for a Valentine's Day fundraiser with a sign up. View an Example
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Adopt a Hallway Challenge - Break the school up into a series of hallways
and areas that correspond with the number of classrooms that you have. Have
each first-period class choose one piece of the school that they will show
some love during the length of your challenge. Ideas can include decorating
their piece of the school with kind messages, picking up trash in that area,
offering to help students who may need it, cleaning the hallway, and any
other ideas your school comes up with for taking care of it. You’ll increase
student ownership of their campus and improve their sense of community.
2. Make a Kindness Mural - Choose a large, blank wall in the school to create a
kindness mural that art classes work on together. This can be something that
is done on large paper, a series of separate projects displayed together or
even painted on a blank wall. This works especially well with schools that
have a lot of graffiti artists, as this means you have a large group of very
artistic students who could easily create something beautiful and inspiring
that the school will enjoy for years to come.
3. Design a Kind Classroom Wall - Similar to the classroom mural, but contained
inside your classroom, dedicate a classroom wall to their kindness
creations. Give each student one sheet of paper in the shape of a large
heart and allow them to decorate it however they wish, with the theme of
kindness. They can write lyrics, draw, paint, put pictures they cut out of
magazines, etc. By allowing each student to represent themselves in the art,
you’ll see a piece of who they really are. Give them class time to create
and then display them as a giant wall of art.
4. Love & Shakespeare - Shakespeare’s plays are full of unrequited love, silly
love mix-ups, long-lasting love and more. Middle and high school English
classes read these plays (and drama classes perform them) because students
are hopeless romantics who respond to these themes. Use this to your
advantage and start work on your Shakespeare play on the weeks leading up to
Valentine’s Day. On the day of love, have students re-enact famous scenes
from Shakespeare’s play on love. Bonus points for having costumes, which
will fan the flames of their artistic efforts and make them fall much more
easily into character.
5. Valentine’s Day Creative Writing - Older students love writing about love!
Find some free love-related prompts online and allow students some time to
write poetry on the subject. Or, create a fun creative writing exercise to
get the creative juices flowing, such as placing three Valentine’s
Day-themed objects on a table and telling students they must weave all of
the items into their story with the theme of love, heartbreak, and kindness.
6. Study the Real St. Valentine - Take a different approach to the day of love
and look at the historical background to the holiday and who St. Valentine
really was. Some students will appreciate the maudlin origins of the day and
the graphic details of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. This might be
particularly well-suited to groups who are very distracted by romantic
relationship dynamics and do not need that fueled in the classroom.
These 25 ideas should give you lots of momentum to pack the month full of
interesting and innovative lessons that will inspire learning and community with
your group of students. Don’t forget to try some of the department or
school-wide ideas to really broaden the scope of the lessons and encourage
students to be kind.
Erica Jabali is a freelance writer and blogs over at ispyfabulous.com.
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25 VALENTINE'S DAY GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
Valentine’s Day is such a fun holiday to celebrate in the classroom and can be
used to foster generosity and teamwork. Use these ideas to create a curriculum
that focuses on overarching themes of kindness and love for all. By
incorporating these easy, affordable Valentine’s Day games and activities,
you’ll be on your way to creating the most memorable month of kindness ever.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VALENTINE’S DAY IDEAS
1. Make Valentine’s Day Slime - Celebrate the day by making red slime with fun
add-ins! This is especially well-suited for science class or elementary
schools where slime is a big win.
2. Use Heart Estimation Jars - Elementary school kids love estimating. Fill a
jar with Sweetheart candies and have students mull over how many are in the
jar. Or, have more estimation fun and create a series of jars with different
amounts of various Valentine’s Day-inspired candies. Students can use a
paper chart to note their estimations and the student who gets the most
correct (or closest) gets a prize!
3. Make Heart Marshmallow Toothpick Structures - Many elementary classes enjoy
the simple marshmallow and toothpick STEM activity. Make it pink and use
heart-shaped marshmallows to recreate it into a fun Valentine’s Day learning
activity.
4. Craft Beaded Hearts - With simple supplies such as pipe cleaners and beads,
students can create heart-shaped beaded crafts. Shape the pipe cleaner into
a heart and thread beads on until you are finished. Then, twist the ends
together to ensure the beads don’t fall off.
5. Design a Valentine’s Day Play-doh Table - Mix large batches of Play-doh in
colors like pink, red and purple, and add in some sparkles and other add-ins
to customize it further. Then, put out shaped cookie cutters, like angels,
hearts, stars and more, to create a Play-doh rotation table all kids will
love.
6. Create Heart Pockets - You might remember these from your own classroom as a
kid. Using two sheets of paper, cut the same size heart, punch holes along
the bottom V of the heart and thread yarn through to create a pocket. Then,
decorate!
7. Add Things I Heart - Using the heart-shaped pocket they created, have
students draw pictures of the things they heart (love) in their lives. For
older students, they can write the associating words on the other side.
Examples can be people, pets, sports, food, things and more that make the
student feel happy and loved. Put these pictures inside the heart.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Collect snacks for a Valentine's Day class party with a sign up. View an Example
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Make a Heart Collage - Use small pieces of crepe paper in hues of pinks and
reds to create a heart collage. All you’ll need is construction paper, glue,
and colored paper to create this beautiful art piece that can be displayed
on the wall.
2. Make Valentine’s Day Sensory Bottles - Sensory bottles are great for
teaching emotional regulation. A month or so before Valentine’s Day, start
drinking water bottles that have the right shape for a sensory bottle and
saving them. Then, on the day of, find an easy sensory bottle recipe, such
as the Valentine’s Day Sensory Bottle post featured on Teaching Mama and
make them in class.
3. Do Acts of Kindness - Find or create a printable with easy acts of kindness
that students of all ages can incorporate into their daily lives, such as
the free version available on I Spy Fabulous. Have them track their acts of
kindness over a period of time, such as the days leading up to Valentine’s
Day or even the entire month. For added fun, make it a competition with
other classes and see which class can be the kindest!
4. Play the Action Hearts Game - Print out this free Action Hearts game and
enjoy! This easy game asks students to take turns turning over hearts and
completing the elementary school friendly actions. Or, create your own
version to suit your particular students.
5. Create a Heart Tree - On a classroom wall, create the stump and bare
branches of a tree. Then, have each student decorate a large heart cut out
of a piece of construction paper. Ask them to decorate that heart however
they like. It can be a reflection of them, their interests, their favorite
things, or simply artistic and beautiful. Then, use the hearts to create the
leaves of the tree, showing how each person adds their own unique beauty to
the tree of life.
6. Make-Your-Own Valentines - Not all students have access to buying or making
their own valentines at home, but it’s a day everyone should enjoy. So, let
parents know that this will be taken care of inside the classroom. Print
some easy, free templates and set up four or five stations in the classroom.
Each student gets to pick which valentine they would like to make. Provide
class time for students to craft their valentines. You can have each student
select four or so other students they’ll be crafting for (ensuring all
students are picked equally) or give them enough time to make a large enough
batch for the full class.
MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL VALENTINE’S DAY IDEAS
1. Have a Door Decorating Contest - You’ll need school-wide or at least a
department-wide agreement to do this one but grab your best art supplies and
have students create a door design in honor of Valentine’s Day. Decide how
far in advance you’ll be decorating, but at least decorate before the actual
day, so you can do some of the other activities on this list on the actual
holiday.
2. Create a Love Campaign - Have students create a campaign encouraging people
to be kind and show love to one another. Their campaign should include a
slogan or tagline, an image or icon to go with their brand, and a short, fun
commercial-length presentation. Working in groups works especially well for
projects like this, and you can add a presentation component on Valentine’s
Day. Consider videotaping the best campaigns in each class and featuring
them at school-wide assemblies to encourage kindness all around. Always get
student permission before featuring, though, to maintain trust within the
classroom.
3. Play-Do Story Creation - If you’re thinking your middle-school students
don’t want to play with Play-doh — think again! Bring it up to their level
by taking a simple story they are studying and break it into scenes. Then,
on Valentine’s Day, break them into groups of four and have each group
recreate one scene from the story using Play-doh. Make sure that the groups
go in order of the way the scenes appear in the story. Give them a specific
period of time to complete their scenes. After every group is finished, have
students walk the gallery of scenes to see the whole story come to life in
Play-doh.
4. Do a Poetry Reading - Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to bring poetry
to life. A week or two leading up to Valentine’s Day, teach a poetry unit
featuring some of the greatest poets of all time, including some of the
poems from heart-broken poets, too. Then, talk about the rise of slam poetry
and have students create their own slam poems. Brave students can perform
their slam poetry in front of the class!
5. Play Kindness BINGO - Print blank BINGO cards or create your own that have
ideas for ways they can show kindness to others. This is a great opportunity
to incorporate anti-bullying ideas your school is working on and then play a
fun game of bingo. Use sweetheart candies or another festive Valentine’s Day
treat (plastic gems or pink and red puffs work well for non-candy schools)
and enjoy playing!
6. Have a Kindness Challenge - Give students extra incentive to be kind to one
another by creating a school-wide kindness challenge! For this to work, have
each teacher pick another classroom at random and keep it a secret. Then,
the teacher works with their classroom to create a series of kind acts that
they will do to encourage and be kind to the classroom they selected. This
can be stretched to last the entire week of Valentine’s Day. By the end of
the week, the classrooms should try to guess which class had theirs and
hopefully it is obvious!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sell flowers for a Valentine's Day fundraiser with a sign up. View an Example
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Adopt a Hallway Challenge - Break the school up into a series of hallways
and areas that correspond with the number of classrooms that you have. Have
each first-period class choose one piece of the school that they will show
some love during the length of your challenge. Ideas can include decorating
their piece of the school with kind messages, picking up trash in that area,
offering to help students who may need it, cleaning the hallway, and any
other ideas your school comes up with for taking care of it. You’ll increase
student ownership of their campus and improve their sense of community.
2. Make a Kindness Mural - Choose a large, blank wall in the school to create a
kindness mural that art classes work on together. This can be something that
is done on large paper, a series of separate projects displayed together or
even painted on a blank wall. This works especially well with schools that
have a lot of graffiti artists, as this means you have a large group of very
artistic students who could easily create something beautiful and inspiring
that the school will enjoy for years to come.
3. Design a Kind Classroom Wall - Similar to the classroom mural, but contained
inside your classroom, dedicate a classroom wall to their kindness
creations. Give each student one sheet of paper in the shape of a large
heart and allow them to decorate it however they wish, with the theme of
kindness. They can write lyrics, draw, paint, put pictures they cut out of
magazines, etc. By allowing each student to represent themselves in the art,
you’ll see a piece of who they really are. Give them class time to create
and then display them as a giant wall of art.
4. Love & Shakespeare - Shakespeare’s plays are full of unrequited love, silly
love mix-ups, long-lasting love and more. Middle and high school English
classes read these plays (and drama classes perform them) because students
are hopeless romantics who respond to these themes. Use this to your
advantage and start work on your Shakespeare play on the weeks leading up to
Valentine’s Day. On the day of love, have students re-enact famous scenes
from Shakespeare’s play on love. Bonus points for having costumes, which
will fan the flames of their artistic efforts and make them fall much more
easily into character.
5. Valentine’s Day Creative Writing - Older students love writing about love!
Find some free love-related prompts online and allow students some time to
write poetry on the subject. Or, create a fun creative writing exercise to
get the creative juices flowing, such as placing three Valentine’s
Day-themed objects on a table and telling students they must weave all of
the items into their story with the theme of love, heartbreak, and kindness.
6. Study the Real St. Valentine - Take a different approach to the day of love
and look at the historical background to the holiday and who St. Valentine
really was. Some students will appreciate the maudlin origins of the day and
the graphic details of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. This might be
particularly well-suited to groups who are very distracted by romantic
relationship dynamics and do not need that fueled in the classroom.
These 25 ideas should give you lots of momentum to pack the month full of
interesting and innovative lessons that will inspire learning and community with
your group of students. Don’t forget to try some of the department or
school-wide ideas to really broaden the scope of the lessons and encourage
students to be kind.
Erica Jabali is a freelance writer and blogs over at ispyfabulous.com.
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