Valentine's Day Preschool Centers | 13 printable center activities

Valentine’s Day Preschool Centers

I’m not a big fan of Cupid and his arrows. I do, on the other hand, love flowers, hearts and all things sweet – conversation heart candies, chocolates, cookies, cupcakes… I love ’em all! And you have guessed right that I included all those things in my new Valentine’s Day activity packet for your preschool or kinder (prep) kiddos!

PLEASE NOTE: This blog post contains sample pages from my Valentine’s Day Preschool Centers packet. You can download the free sample pages by clicking on the photos. To purchase the complete 105-page Valentine’s Day Preschool Centers packet, scroll to the end of this post to get links to my online stores.

My favorite activity from this packet is the sight words conversation hearts sorting activity. You can prep the activity by simply laminating and cutting all the pieces and then asking kiddos to sort the hearts to the correct jar. (Click the photo to get some sample pages.)

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Conversation Hearts Sight Word Sorting

If your kiddos are ready, you can step it up a bit and ask them to make sentences using the sight words candy hearts. Glue the hearts to the ends of small clothes pegs and clip them to the jar. Ask children to make a sentence for each word. (Click the photo to get the jars with the sentence labels. Please note: these labels are only available for download here and are not included in my Valentine’s packet.)

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Conversation Hearts Sight Words Sorting

Literacy Centers included in the Valentine’s Day Preschool Centers

Okie dokie. Now that I’ve shown you my favorite activity, we can move on to see what else is included. The first activity is a fine motor practice mat. (Click the photo to get the fine motor practice mat.)

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Heart Fine Motor Practice

Then there is a Valentine mail sorting activity. Children are required to match the lower case letter on the valentine and the beginning sound picture envelope to the correct mailbox. You can prep the activity by simply laminating and cutting, or you can make it a little more interactive by cutting a slot for children to slip the envelope and valentine into the mailbox. I placed a container behind the mailbox to receive the incoming mail. (Click the photos to get letters A-F.)

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Mailbox Letters and Beginning Sounds Match
Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Mailbox Letters and Beginning Sounds Match

Next, I included a syllable counting activity. Children show their answers by clipping pegs to each heart or using counters to place on each heart.

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Syllables

Then there is a chocolate box activity! I am sure this will be a deliciously fun activity for your kiddos! The aim here is for children to sort the chocolates to correct middle sound box. (Click the photos to get a couple of the boxes.)

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Chocolate Box Sorting CVC Words by Middle Sound
Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Chocolate Box Sorting CVC Words by Middle Sound (2)

Mmmm… valentine cookies! For this activity, children will be sorting cookies to their rhyming jar. (Click the photo to get three of thejars.)

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Cookies and Jar Rhyming Words

Math Centers included in the Valentine’s Day Preschool Centers

For the next activity, I glued the rose heads to some popsicle sticks. I then attached the vases to some tall cups. The aim here is to, of course, match the colored roses to the correct vase. You can also use colored cups without the vases, or forgo the cup altogether and have the use the vases as sorting mats. (Click the photos to get the pictured colors.)

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Roses and Vases Sorting by Color in cups
Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Roses and Vases Sorting by Color (2)
Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Roses and Vases Sorting by Color

The next activity has children counting the sprinkles on top of each cupcake and matching it to the base with the correct number. (Click the photo to get numbers 1-4.)

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Cupcake Number and Heart Sprinkles Match

After, is a size sorting activity – children sort the cookies to the correct delivery van.

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Cookies and Trucks Sorting by Size

Next, is a shape sorting activity. As with the alphabet mailboxes, you can make this more interactive by cutting slots in each box and having children put each envelope into the correct box. (Click the picture to get a couple of the shapes.)

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Mailbox Sorting by 2D Shape

I have also included a “Which picture is different?” clip it activity.

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Which picture is different

As well as shadow matching cards.

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities Shadow Matching Cards

To finish off the packet, I also included an AB pattern activity.

Preschool Valentine's Day Center Activities AB Patterns

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Valentine's Day Preschool Centers | 13 printable center activities

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Happy Teaching 🙂

11 thoughts on “Valentine’s Day Preschool Centers”

  1. thank you so much for these, will be trying out the free samples asap, I really appreciate the chance to try things out as I’ve made a few bum purchases where I can only use 5% of the pack.

  2. The activity that has children counting the sprinkles on top of each cupcake and matching it to the base with the correct number only had 1-4.
    (Click the photo to get numbers 1-8.)

  3. These are wonderful! Thank you for your creativity & generosity and sharing them. I did want to mention what it looks like Janice has already mentioned (the cupcake counting activity only includes numbers 1-4) but also that the last couple of activities are not clickable to the printables for me. Not sure if that’s just on my end? I hope it can be fixed b/c they’re so cute! Thank you!

    1. Hi Shelley,
      I’m so sorry! I have fixed the cupcake error and now displays the correct wording (1-4). There are only a few resources I have selected to give out as free samples; to access them all, you will need to purchase the packet.
      – Lavinia

  4. Hi my name is Jill Closs I would like to be able to print the Valentines truck heart sizes when I click to download it won’t let. The other is one that I would like to down load is the Valentines cupcake number I can download 1-4 but not all of the numbers. Any feed back would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jill Closs

    1. Hi Jill,
      For some downloads, you may need permission due to some updates from Google Drive, so please send me an access request and I will gladly give you permission to access the file 🙂
      Please note that while I do share many free resources, to access the complete download, you will need to purchase the file via a link to one of my online stores.
      Have a great New Year!
      – Lavinia

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