Preschool Valentines Day Activities and Experiments

Treat your young kids to fun preschool Valentines Day activities that are quick and easy to set up but provide tons of play and learning opportunities. Multi sensory preschool Valentines Day activities for science, math, sensory, and fine motor skills play. Also make sure to check out our 14 Days Of Valentines STEM Countdown!

PRESCHOOL VALENTINES DAY ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

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We have enjoyed so many heart themed preschool Valentines Day activities that included art, science, math, sensory play, and fine motor skills! Below is a collection of our favorite Valentine’s Day chemistry ideas.

We use the holidays and seasons to create fun themes for classic science activities. It’s the perfect way to keep kids engaged and having tons of fun while still learning something important.

HEART THEMED PRESCHOOL VALENTINES DAY ACTIVITIES

These are our favorites for heart themed preschool Valentine’s Day activities. You will find simple math activities, sensory bin ideas, simple science experiments, and fine motor skills practice.

We use simple materials that can be picked up inexpensively at grocery stores, craft stores, and dollar stores. Many of these items can be reused from year to year if stored properly.

Click on the highlighted links below to learn more about each heart themed activity including supplies and set up instructions.

Try our heart shaped cookie cutter baking soda science activity! This is a great activity that can re-invent itself for each holiday and season or even for numbers, letter, and shapes! Baking soda science is also a super fun activity for young kids and uses basic kitchen ingredients. We also have two other variations including erupting hearts science and heart bombs science activities.

Conversation hearts are the traditional candy of Valentine’s Day! I planned a few activities using a bag of these {not so great to us} tasty candies. We made candy hearts salt dough. We used them of science with a candy hearts oobleck {non-newtonian fluids} activity and a sink the heart water science activity. You can also use these conversation hearts for a candy math measuring activity or a numbers 1-20 counting game.

Sensory bins are also great fun for preschool Valentine’s Day activities. Using sensory bins is an amazing early learning activity that has so much potential for early childhood development. You can read more about the importance of sensory bins here. Sensory bins should be age appropriate and adult supervised if necessary. We have a fun collection of Valentine’s Day heart themed sensory bins to share. You can also set up an invitation to play with a Valentine’s Day themed homemade play dough!

If you have kids who are into building things, we have a few simple ideas for building with hearts. Cardboard hearts building is a great way to use up leftover cardboard and a great fine motor skill activity for kids. We also made hearts out of PVC pipes! PVC pipes make a really great building set at a low cost. How about LEGO hearts. Simple bricks to build simple hearts. Try it with DUPLO too.

We also tried out some specific preschool Valentine’s Day fine motor activities that really encouraged working on hand strength, hand-eye coordination, and finger dexterity. Make a Valentine’s Day scissor skills tray with collage active for a creative fine motor skills activity. Paint on tin foil and make tin foil hearts. Painting with brushes is terrific fine motor work. painting on aluminum foil is also an amazing process art activity.

There are so many more Valentine’s Day activities that you can do with the older preschooler too! Grow crystal hearts, make cool Valentine’s slime, our design a LEGO candy box!