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Using Valentine’s Day Themes to Spark A Love of Learning for Kids

Valentine's Day may be a commercialized holiday with expensive chocolates and greeting cards, but it’s still a wonderful chance to celebrate the important people in our lives and the perfect opportunity to make learning fun for kids using sweet Valentine’s Day goodies!  

There’s no better time to infuse learning with sweetness and excitement for school-aged children than Valentine's Day. Incorporating educational activities for kids with Valentine's Day treats can turn a day of learning into a super sweet experience. Whether in a classroom or homeschooling environment or just for fun with your kids, you can take learning to the next level with these big-hearted ideas.

  1. Adding Heart-to-Heart: Interactive Math Lessons Make math for kids sweeter with Valentine's Day-themed manipulatives. Using heart-shaped chocolates or candies as counting tools, children can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a deliciously engaging way. By cutting up the goodies, you can also practice fractions with kids. You can even add colorful worksheets decorated with Valentine's Day themes to make math activities feel more like a celebration. As children arrange the candies in their equations, they not only reinforce math skills but also fine motor skills and creativity! For more math fun, check out our Valentine's Day-themed geometry craft here.
2. Showing Love for Literacy: Stuffed Animal Story Time For language arts, storytelling can be brought to life as children create Valentine's Day-themed tales featuring fluffy stuffed animal friends as the main characters. Need help to prompt their stories? Try using words from conversation candy hearts to start sentences or inspire emotions, plot points, etc. As children weave their heartfelt narratives, they’ll be building literacy skills like grammar and vocabulary.
3. Red and Pink Salute to Science: Mixing Candy Colors As you make homemade holiday cards or treats for loved ones, be sure to talk about color with kids. For DIY projects, use paint so that you can mix red and white to make pink. Let kids experiment with mixing other colors and talk about the science behind how different pigments mix together and make new colors. The same color magic can be made when baking using red food coloring in white icing or mixing dyes together!
4. Historic Fun with Flowers: A Family Petal Tree If you’ve got a flower this Valentine’s Day, you can do this sweet activity to help kids learn about history and their families. For every petal on the flower, ask kids to name a relative. For each relative, discuss their birth date, historic moments they lived through, where they live now, and who they might be spending Valentine’s Day with.   Now you know Valentine’s Day can offer a wealth of educational opportunities for classrooms, homeschooling families, or any parent looking to influence a love of learning for kids! So this Valentine's Day, inspire school-aged children to find more to love about learning with these sweet activities.  

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with heart and brain-boosting fun!

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