14 FREE Valentine's Day Activities Your Students Will Love!

Discover 14 engaging and educational Valentine’s Day activities that your students will adore! From escape rooms to digital card making, these free activities will make learning fun and festive.

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to bring a little extra joy and excitement into the classroom. To help you celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of 14 free and delightful activities that your students will love. From solving candy-themed escape rooms to creating personalized digital cards, there’s something for every student to enjoy. These activities are designed to be both fun and educational, ensuring that your classroom festivities are filled with love and learning. So, let’s dive into this heartwarming collection of Valentine’s Day activities that will make this holiday memorable for your students! 💖

14 FREE Valentine's Day activities your students will love!

1. Candy Crush FREE Valentine's Day Escape Room

The Candy Crush Free Valentine’s Day Escape Room is the perfect no-prep activity to delight your students with Valentine’s Day and candy-themed puzzles. This virtual game brings heartwarming challenges that your class will love working together to solve. Get ready to decode secret messages and embark on a candy-coated adventure that’s sure to make your Valentine’s Day extra special!

Transform your February lessons with the February Escape Room Bundle! Engage your students with five no-prep virtual escape rooms.

💘Cupid’s Quest: Virtual Escape Room
🍬Crack the Candy Shop Code: 360° Valentine’s Day Escape
💌Love Letters to Wednesday: Virtual Escape Room
🇺🇸Presidential Pursuit: A Presidents’ Day Escape
🧧Lunar New Year Lockdown: Virtual Escape Room (includes a bonus junior version)

2. Valentine's Day Secret Messages

Get Secret Agent Codebreaker Valentine’s Day secret messages along with your Candy Crush escape room! This bonus resource includes:

4 different printable secret messages (both with and without answers shown)
A secret message key
Answer Key
A link for students to generate their own secret agent codename

3. Hear "Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch!" Read Aloud

The story “Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch” by Eileen Spinelli is about a man named Mr. Hatch, a drab, predictable gentleman who leads a painfully ordered and uninteresting life. One Valentine’s Day a giant candy-filled heart is delivered to Mr. Hatch with a note that reads, “Somebody loves you.” Hear it read by Hector Elizondo on Storyline Online.

4. "Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch!" HyperDoc

This HyperDoc is a great extension to the wonderful story from Storyline Online.

Lesson includes:

Get ready to read
Story vocabulary
Character analysis activity
Poetry choice board
Extension activity

Use the HyperDoc in presentation mode as it is and walk your students through the lesson. All activities are done on paper or post it notes so students do not need their own copy of the lesson.

Alternatively you can make a copy and edit for your class and share it with your students in whatever way works for you! Please remember to keep the SlidesMania and credit text if you edit and share.

5. Code a Valentine's Day Google Logo

Get your students coding with love! The “Create Your Own Google Logo for Valentine’s Day” activity from CS First teaches kids to use Scratch programming to design their own festive Google logo. It’s a fun, creative, and educational way to celebrate Valentine’s Day

6. Make a Friendship Bracelet with FigJam

This template, created by Ellie Tyner, is perfect for the K-12 classroom, whether as a creative activity in response to literature or just for fun! Students will create a friendship bracelet for a character, and it can be used with any text. With designated sections for each student, the entire class can collaborate and display their work.

7. Play a Valentine's Day Google Doodle

Google Doodle GIF, courtesy of Google

Google Doodles are special logos that appear on the Google homepage to celebrate holidays, events, and people. This interactive Doodle celebrates Valentine’s Day with a scientific twist! Click the Doodle to get matched to your own chemical element avatar and start swiping to make some bonds!

8. Write a Valentine Rebus Story

Looking for a fun and engaging writing activity for students? Try using emojis in Google Docs to create Valentine-themed rebus stories with this template from Eric Curts (on his blog controlaltachieve.com). If you’ve ever flipped through Highlights magazine in a waiting room, you’re probably familiar with rebuses—stories where some words are replaced with images. This activity is not only enjoyable for students to create and read, but it can also support younger learners who may find choosing an image easier than spelling out a word. Give it a try, and let the creativity flow!

9. Valentine's Day Magnetic Poetry

Here is another fun Valentine’s day activity for students from Eric Curts. Have students create Valentine-themed poems using Google Drawings. In this engaging exercise, students drag and drop words onto a canvas, reminiscent of magnetic poetry kits. It’s a creative way for students to compose their own poems and have fun with language. Give it a try and see the poetic magic unfold!

10. Create Digital Valentine's Day Cards

Create beautiful, personalized Valentine’s Day cards for free with Adobe Express! Choose from a variety of templates, customize with your own messages and images, and easily share or print your designs. It’s a fun and simple way for your students to make their own unique cards!

11. Make Pixel Art Heart in Google Sheets

Engage your students in a creative Valentine’s Day activity by making pixel art hearts using Google Sheets. Younger students can use the Pixel Art template and the fill color tool to create a simple heart in Google Sheets.

Older students can learn how to create a pixel art project using conditional formatting in a spreadsheet by following a Make Art with Google Sheets Google Applied Digital Skills lesson.

12. A Valentine's Day Video Lesson from Edpuzzle

Engage your students with this interactive Valentine’s Day video lesson from Edpuzzle. They’ll explore the history and traditions of Valentine’s Day, including the origins of the holiday, legends about Saint Valentine, and how heart symbols and gifts like cards and chocolates became popular. This lesson is suitable for grades 3-12 and can be easily copied and shared with your students.

13. Break the Code 🔒 Interactive Rebus Game from BookWidgets

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this interactive classroom game from BookWidgets! Rebus puzzles are a fantastic tool for promoting literacy, critical thinking, and creativity in a fun way. This activity engages students in decoding and interpreting language playfully, enhancing their language skills, vocabulary, and problem-solving abilities. Use the Worksheet widget to solve the Valentine’s Day rebus puzzles, either individually or as a whole group. Don’t forget to share your favorite rebus!

14. Valentine's Day Explore Board

Get ready to spread the love and learning with our exciting Valentine’s Day Explore Board! We’ve crafted a sweet assortment of activities that will have your students diving into the wonders of Valentine’s Day. This explore board is filled with variety to cater to all interests and learning styles, ensuring that every student finds something to love. Click here to make a copy of this explore board.