Valentine’s Day Centers

Over 20 Valentine’s Day Activities perfect for your math and literacy centers! These Valentine’s Day activities are differentiated to meet the wide range of learners in your classroom, and a fun way to celebrate the holiday. With a mix of math games, writing prompts, word work and more, your first and second grade students are sure to love it!

Be sure to check out this BLOG POST to see several of these activities in action!

MATH VALENTINE’S DAY CENTERS

• Deck of Valentine Themed 10-Frame Cards (2 different sets: 1-9 & 1-10 with wild cards) Use these to play memory, go fish, compare…etc
• Valentine-Themed Making it Big (2-digit and 3-digit versions): This game strengthens the understanding of place value. Students learn that a 2 in the “ones place” plays a very different role than a 2 in the “tens place” or “hundreds place”. It also asks students to examine a pair of 2 or 3-digit numbers and determine which is greater.
• Valentine-Themed Roll, Build & Write (2-digit and 3-digit versions): Asks students to roll 2 or 3 dice (representing the hundreds, tens and ones place). Students then build their number with hundreds, tens and ones. Finally, students are asked to represent their picture with a math sentence.
• Valentine-Themed Ten More (Adding 10 to a single digit number and adding 10 to a multiple of 10 versions): This popular math game asks students to practice mentally adding 10 to a single, 2-digit or 3-digit number.
• Set of 24 Valentine-themed playing cards: Pairs of cards, one with numbers written numerically, and the other illustrated with hundreds, ten-rods and ones. (Can be used to play memory, war or Go Fish!)
• 2 Place Value Mats (1- Hundreds, Tens and Ones; 2- Tens & Ones) Can be used to reinforce any activity
• Valentine Bump: 4 versions of this popular dice game: 2 dice addition, 3 dice addition, adding doubles, and multiplication
• Fact Family Heart People: Asks students to select from 60 different fact family heart people cards. Using that fact family, students then write 2 addition sentences and 2 subtraction sentences on their recording sheets.
• 7 Valentine’s Day Themed Math Journal Prompts

LITERACY VALENTINE’S CENTERS

• 2 Valentine-Themed Acrostic Poems
• 2 Making Words: Students make different words using the letters in “Valentine’s Day” and “Friendship”
• 2 Valentine-Themed Writing Prompts: 2 prompts with room for illustrations and writing
• Using Your Senses: Provides students a graphic organizer as they use all 5 senses to describe Valentine’s Day
• ABC Order: Asks students to cut out 18 Valentine-themed words and arrange them in alphabetical order. Once in order, students write their list on the recording page.
• 2 Valentine-Themed Word Searches: Leveled easy & hard
• Heart Sight Word Scramble: Students are asked to unscramble high frequency/sight words and record their answers.
• Opinion Writing: Students will choose whether they enjoy giving valentines or receiving valentine’s more and give reasons to support their opinion.
• Friend Wanted Advertisement: Students are asked to think of the qualities they look for in a friend and create a “Wanted Ad” for the perfect friend.