Lesson Plan - Valentine’s Day Lessons and Teacher Resources

Introduction:

“Valentine’s Day or Saint Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the English-speaking countries, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine’s cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The holiday is named after two among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of ‘valentines’.” – Wikipedia

Lesson Plans:

Art:

• This is a wonderful collection of practical Valentine’s Day gift craft ideas (P-K)
• This is a Valentine’s Day craft idea called “Milky Hearts” (P-K)
• This is a simple Valentine’s Day card holder project (P-K)
• This is a plan for making a Valentine Person and poem (P-1)
• Here is an idea to decorate a popsicle stick frame with hearts (K)
• This idea is for making people out of Valentine hearts (K-1)
• This lesson uses various styles of media to create heart-themed art (K-2)
• Use this clever idea to color salt with sidewalk chalk to create colored sand Valentine’s Cards (K-3)
• You can recycle your candy canes on Valentine’s Day with this idea (K-4)
• This idea is for creating a “Robot” Valentine mailbox (K-8)

• This is a gift bag craft idea (1-3)
• Here students decorate a special Valentine and tuck a teabag, candy, or chore coupon inside (1-3)
• Students make scented paper flowers in this Valentine’s Day idea (2)
• In this lesson on the joys of giving, kids make fragrant bath salts to give as gifts (3-6)

Computers & Internet:

• In this technology lesson, kids create and send Valentine e-cards to their parents after reading Eve Buntings’s “The Valentine Bears” (1-2)
• Here’s a computer class idea for Valentine poem cards created from candy heart sayings (6-7)

Language Arts:

• Addressing Valentines provides handwriting and name recognition practice here (K)
• Making this valentine mailbox idea could lead into a letter writing lesson (K-3)
• “Hershey Kiss Paragraph” is a writing assignment idea that involves writing sensory details (2-3)
• Here’s a good writing idea called “Luv Notes” (2-3)
• Valentine’s Day craft demonstration speeches and written and delivered here (2-5)
• Here’s a lesson on Valentine cinquain poems (3-4)
• Here’s a fun activity for creating sentences out of candy hearts (3-4)
• In this language arts idea, students write their own conversation hearts (3-5)
• “The AND Game” is a good Valentine’s language arts activity (3-5)
• This language arts lesson plan on Valentine’s Day is meant to develop creativity (6)
• Here students create declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences from conversation hearts (6-8)
• In this writing exercise, students create a Memory-A-Day box as a gift for someone special (6-12)
• Students study Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 as the pattern for their Valentine’s Day card, poem and PowerPoint project

Math:

• This is a Valentine’s Day estimation lesson idea (K-5)
• Here is a math with candy conversation hearts idea (2-3)
• This is a Valentine’s lesson idea on addition and subtraction (2-3)
• Here students graph the colors of candy hearts (2-4)
• “Conversation Heart Fractions” is a fun idea to add and eat! (3)
• Here’s a latitude, longitude, and coordinates idea called “Valentine Battleship” (3-4)
• This is a fun way for involving students in math problems on Valentine’s Day called “Mend My Broken Heart” (3-4)
• This is a conversation heart ratio graphing activity (5)

Music:

• This is a “Valentine Rap” game idea (P-3)
• “I’m a Little Cupid” is the centerpiece of this musical activity (K-1)

Physical Education & Health:

• These P.E. station activities have a Valentine’s Day theme (P-K)

Science:

• This graphing heart candy by color lesson has a science twist and a good “relevancy” section (K)
• “Love Bugs” is a Valentine’s science lesson on insects (K-2)

Social Studies:

• Here are two Valentine’s Day ideas: one is for a bulletin board and the other is a geography idea (2-3)

Other:

• This is a Valentine’s game idea called “Hide The Heart” (P)
• Here’s a simple Valentine’s Day activity for teaching how to cut heart shapes (P)
• Try this nice idea for celebrating love on Valentine’s Day (P-1)
• Here’s a “Heart and Seek” game idea (P-1)
• Here’s an idea to make Valentine Kisses from “krispy” cereal and tin foil (P-3)
• This is an interesting idea for making a class Valentine wreath (K-3)
• If you have any Valentine’s Day lesson plans to share, please add them to our site!

Additional Resources:

• You can also find Valentine’s Day printables, activities, and more at edHelper.com
• Here are printable coloring and craft activities from children’s author/illustrator Jan Brett
• Find online, downloadable, and printable games; vintage, cartoon, and blank Valentine cards, and more here
• This is a Valentine’s Day trivia hunt quiz
• Now let’s look at Valentine’s Day around the world
• Here ESL/EFL students tell about their Valentine’s Day customs and learn about ours
• This is a Writer’s Den project on Valentine’s words, sentences, and paragraphs
• Learn about the history of Valentine’s Day on History.com
• For the unromantic, here is additional information about “The Valentine’s Day Massacre“
• These are Valentine’s math worksheets, puzzles and graph paper