It’s time to prepare some Montessori-inspired Valentine’s Day activities! Here are lots of great activities available from around the blogosphere.
Montessori-Inspired Activities
I had a post from last year with lots of helpful resources: Activity of the Week – Montessori-Inspired Valentine’s Day Activities.
Last week’s Montessori-Inspired Kindness post has some activities that work well for Valentine’s Day.
Bead-and-Pipe-Cleaner Counting Activity
I have Montessori-Inspired Bead-and-Pipe-Cleaner Valentine Math Activities.
Montessori-Oriented Pipe-Cleaner-and-Bead Valentine’s Day Activity
I have Turning Valentine Crafts into Montessori-Oriented Activities.
I also have Montessori-Inspired Valentine Math Trays.
2022 UPDATE: All My Valentine’s Day Posts
- Turning Valentine Crafts into Montessori-Oriented Activities
- Montessori-Inspired Valentine’s Day Activities
- Kindness Challenge – Montessori-Inspired Kindness
- Montessori-Inspired Valentine’s Day Activities (2012)
- Montessori-Inspired Valentine Math Trays and Valentine Ideas
- Montessori-Inspired Hundred Acts of Kindness Project
- Homeschool Valentine’s Day
- Montessori-Inspired Transferring Activities for February
- Water Pouring and Water-Bead Pouring
- Free Valentine Learning Printables and Montessori-Inspired Valentine Activities
- Montessori-Inspired Valentine’s Day Activities with Spielgaben {Free Printables}
- Free Valentine’s Day Songs and Rhymes for Circle Time
- Free Valentine’s Day Sensory Bin with Practical Life and Math Activities
- Easy-to-Prepare Valentine Heart and Colander Practical Life Activity
- Valentine’s Day Cutting Tray with Strings of Beads
- Free Heart Printables and Montessori-Inspired Heart Activities {Human Heart and Valentine Hearts}
- Montessori-Inspired Heart Unit {Hundreds of Human Heart and Valentine Heat Resources}
- Free Heart and Valentine Do-a-Dot Printables (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
- The Best Heart Books for Kids {Human Heart, Love, and Valentine’s Day Books}
- Free Animal Valentine Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
- How to Make a 100 Hearts Sensory Bottle (100 Hearts Calming Bottle)
- How to Prepare a Book Basket That Encourages Kindness
Montessori-Inspired Valentine’s Day Math Activity (Photo from Leptir)
Leptir has Valentine’s Day Activities and Valentine’s Day Activities (5) (photo).
Valentine’s Day Sensory Bin (Photo from 1+1+1=1)
1+1+1=1 has a Valentine’s Day sensory bin along with printables that can be made into hands-on activity trays. There’s also a link in the post to heart-themed tot trays.
The Iowa Farmer’s Wife has a Valentine’s Day sensory bucket.
Valentine’s Day Water Bead Transfer (Photo from Jada Roo Can Do)
Jada Roo Can Do has water bead sensory play and transfer. (The blog is no longer available.)
Sugar and Spice has a Valentine’s Day sensory bin and activity trays.
Adventures in Family has Montessori-inspired Valentine’s trays.
Our Montesori Home has lots of Valentine’s inspired Montessori activities.
Valentine Math Work (Photo from Mi Escuelita Montessori)
Mi Escuelita Montessori has Valentine math work for addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
Valentine’s Day Writing Activity (Photo from Barefoot in Suburbia)
Mama of Many Blessings has Valentine’s Day activity trays and practical life.
About a Girl has Lovehearts Art.
Mama to 4 Blessings has a post with Valentine’s activities and crafts, including a special activity with heart-shaped chocolate boxes.
Barefoot in Suburbia has a number of Valentine’s Day activity trays.
The Preschool Experiment has a number of Valentine’s Day activity trays and a Valentine’s Day sensory bin.
Kids’ Valentine’s Day Activities Pinterest Board
Kids’ Valentine’s Day Activities Pinterest Board
I have a Kids’ Valentine’s Day Pinterest board with lots of Valentine’s Day crafts and activities. They aren’t necessary Montessori-inspired activities, although many can be turned into hands-on activity trays.
Are you planning any Montessori-inspired Valentine’s Day activities?
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Love your Pinterest board. Nice roundup. I love Natasha’s blog! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much, Discovering Montessori! I love Leptir, too! 🙂
Thanks for all the great ideas…and I love your pinterest board, too!11
Thanks, Airamty! I’m definitely a Pinterest addict, so I probably have way too much fun with it! 🙂
Hi Deb! I just discovered your blog and am bookmarking it immediately! I really like all these Valentine activities and your photos.
I’m just starting to do Montessori activities with my toddler and blogging about it to keep myself motivated. Do you mind if I link your blog as one of my resources? I can foresee myself coming back for inspiration from time to time!
Cheers and keep up the excellent work!
MM
Thanks, MM … great to meet you! I’d love it if you’d link my blog as one of your resources! I bookmarked your blog and followed it in my Google Reader! 🙂
What fabulous ideas!! I want to try out all of them!
Thanks so much! I’ll be adding a bunch more, too! 🙂
Loving these ideas! especially the pushpin! Going to do that for sure!
Thanks so much! Pushpin punching is amazingly popular with kids in both Montessori school and homeschools … have fun! 🙂
WOW! So many amazing ideas! There just isn’t enough time in the day. Ican’t wait to try soe of these activities!
Thanks, Crystal! I can totally relate to not having enough time in the day … and I’m an empty nester! 😉
You have got me hooked on transfer activities!
Thanks for your comment, JDaniel4s Mom! Transfer activities are awesome, aren’t they?! I love that they help develop concentration as well as motor skills. 🙂
I love these ideas for Valentines Day! I can’t wait to start them up! 🙂
Thanks for your kind comment, Mommy Provost! I’ll be adding a lot more links to the post this weekend, too! 🙂
Hi! Visiting from TGIF! I love all of you amazing ideas! Thanks for sharing! I am doing a few similar activities these next 2 weeks with my boys and look forward to watching them learn. 🙂
Thanks so much for your kind comment, Trina! I hope you have lots of fun with your Valentine’s Day activities! 🙂
So many great Valentine’s Day ideas. I love these round up posts you do! I really want to try the pin punching with my oldest. I think he’d love it.
Thanks, Jackie! I’ve always been amazed at how popular pin punching is with most kids. Some kids will literally spend hours at it! 🙂
what a beautiful collection of activities…thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for your kind comment! I hope you have fun preparing for Valentine’s Day! 🙂
These Valentine’s day activities are so inspiring! I can’t wait to try some of these out for preschool, kindergarten and homeschool!!. Thank you for posting them!
http://discoverykidzone.blogspot.com/2012/02/montessori-monday-valentines-day-fine.html
Thanks, Rachel! I’ll be adding some more – including yours – this weekend! 🙂
Deb, awesome ideas. I have totally not done ANYTHING Valentines related with my daughter yet! EEkkk. Good thing they are doing LOTS of heart activities at school! 😉
Also, I love the eBook for the Heart Association! I want to do something like this in April to help fundraise for the Arthritis Foundation in honor of my daughter. She is the honoree for the walk here in our area and I am trying to find creative ways to raise awareness and funds. Thanks for being a part of this as you have inspired me!
Katie
Thanks, Katie! It would be wonderful if you did something a bit like The Heart Project. The Arthritis Foundation is such an important cause, and it would be so special for you to do something like that in honor of your daughter. 🙂
Thank you for linking up to mommy solutions! Last week you were the #1 most clicked post on the link up! How awesome is that?? Thanks for your participation in the link up! I”m featuring you today on my post: http://www.crystalandcomp.com/2012/02/the-mommy-club-share-your-resources-and-solutions-30/
Stop over and link up more of your awesome ideas.
Crystal
Thanks so much, Crystal! That is definitely awesome! There are always so many great ideas linked up, and I’m truly honored to have my post the most-clicked post for the week! 🙂
Brilliant post especially your pinterest board. I would definitely try some of these activities. Could you add some activities for each day like one for valentine’s week hug day?