Preschool Valentine’s Day Activities! Valentine’s Day Fun for Preschoolers

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Here are five fun Valentine’s Day activities and games your preschooler will love. They’re hands-on, they’re educational, and most use free printables plus a bag of conversation hearts.

What you’ll get from this post

  • Conversation heart bingo
  • An uppercase and lowercase letter matching game
  • Fizzy hearts with baking soda and vinegar
  • A candy heart color sort (with fine motor practice)
  • The dancing candy hearts experiment

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1. Conversation heart bingo

You probably know how to play bingo. Give your child a bingo card, then print a second sheet and cut it up into the pieces you’ll call out. Conversation hearts make perfect markers, or use whatever you have on hand. The goal is five in a row.

Get the free printable from Pre-K Pages.

2. Valentine letter matching

This one comes from I Heart Crafty Things. I got white circle stickers from the Dollar Tree, the kind you’d use for a yard sale, and wrote uppercase letters on them. The hearts have lowercase letters, and your child matches each sticker to the right heart.

It’s a great letter activity for this age. As you work together, ask, “What does the D say? What does the K say?”

3. Fizzy hearts

Our first science experiment. You’ll need:

  • Paper
  • Glue
  • Baking soda
  • Vinegar
  • Food coloring
  • Pipettes
  1. Pour vinegar into cups and let your kids add food coloring.
  2. Squirt glue onto the paper in heart shapes.
  3. Dump baking soda over the hearts. Pour the extra off onto another paper to use again.
  4. Use the pipettes to squirt colored vinegar onto the baking soda hearts and enjoy the fizzy explosions.

Our kids love this one. Here’s the fizzy hearts experiment.

4. Candy heart sort

Rockabye Parents has a free printable with different colored hearts. Give your child a bag of conversation hearts and have them sort each candy onto the matching color. For extra fine motor practice, let them use little kid tweezers. When they’re done, have them count how many of each color they have.

5. Dancing candy hearts

This was definitely the crowd pleaser. You’ll need:

  • A tall clear glass
  • A handful of conversation hearts
  • Baking soda
  • White distilled vinegar
  1. Fill the glass halfway with water.
  2. Add about a tablespoon of baking soda and mix.
  3. Let it sit about 15 seconds so the water turns clear again.
  4. Drop in a small handful of conversation hearts. They’ll sink to the bottom.
  5. Now the fun part: let your child pour in vinegar until the liquid is near the top of the glass.

First the candy shoots to the top and bubbles as the baking soda and vinegar mix and release carbon dioxide. Then the hearts dance up and down from the chemical reaction. It lasts three to five minutes. Here’s the dancing hearts experiment.

Key takeaways

  • A bag of conversation hearts powers bingo, sorting and a science experiment.
  • Dollar Tree circle stickers turn a printable into a letter matching game.
  • Baking soda and vinegar make two easy Valentine’s experiments.
  • Tweezers add fine motor practice to any sorting activity.

What viewers say

Fun!! The sticker activity looked so simple, but fun!

@teambfarm5415 on YouTube

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FAQ

What Valentine’s activities are good for preschoolers?

Conversation heart bingo, letter matching, fizzy hearts, a candy heart color sort and dancing candy hearts are all simple and hands-on.

How do you make candy hearts dance?

Mix about a tablespoon of baking soda into a half glass of water, drop in conversation hearts, then pour in vinegar. The carbon dioxide makes them bob up and down for three to five minutes.

What supplies do I need?

Conversation hearts, baking soda, vinegar, food coloring, glue, paper, pipettes, circle stickers and a few free printables.

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Full transcript

Hi there today I'm going to be showing you five fun activities and games that are valentine's day themed that your preschooler will love the first one is a valentine's bingo I'm sure you're familiar with how to play bingo but you hand this to your child and then you print out another sheet cut it up and these are your little pieces that you call out you can give them little conversation hearts to use as their little markers or whatever you have on hand and then of course the object is to get five in a row

And I found this on prekaypages.com I'll link that below so you can go get the free printable for this bingo card the second activity comes from iheartcraftythings.com and I'll link all of these websites below so you can get their free printables I went to the dollar tree and got these white circle stickers kind of like what you would use for a yard sale and you can just write the uppercase letters on those on the heart you're writing the lowercase letters and they have to match them

So this is a great activity for this age and you could be saying and what does the d say what does the k say as you're working on this together so it's a great letter activity the third activity is a science experiment the materials you'll need for this are paper glue baking soda vinegar food coloring and pipettes so the first thing you're going to do is pour the vinegar into cups and let your kiddos add food coloring and then you squirt the glue onto your paper in heart shapes

And then you dump some baking soda on the hearts some of the baking soda will stick to the hearts so just pour the extra baking soda off onto another paper to use again and then you use the pipettes to squirt colored vinegar onto your baking soda hearts and enjoy the fizzy explosions our kids love this one the fourth activity comes from rockabyeparents.com they have a free printable that has the different colored hearts on it you give your child a bag of the conversation hearts and you can even have them use the little kid tweezers as an added fine motor skill practice

And they'll take their conversation hearts and sort them onto the correct color heart and when they're done you can even have them count how many of each they have and the last activity I have for you today number five is also a science experiment it's called dancing candy hearts and this one was definitely a crowd pleaser the supplies you'll need for this are a tall clear glass a handful of the conversation hearts baking soda white distilled vinegar fill your glass half full of water and add about a tablespoon of baking soda

And mix it let it sit for about 15 seconds to allow the water to become clear again then you're going to put a small handful of the conversation hearts into the glass they will sink to the bottom and now comes the super fun part let your child pour in vinegar so that the liquid level is near the top of the glass and first what's going to happen is the candy will shoot the top and bubble as the baking soda and vinegar mix and let out carbon dioxide then you'll see the heart stance up

And down from the chemical reaction taking place the reaction will last for three to five minutes if you have any other awesome preschool valentine's day activities that you want to share please put that in the comments below for us all to enjoy and if you enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up my name is Sarah and I have four kids and on this channel I like to talk all things homeschool mom life and traveling with kids so if that interests you go ahead

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