These Valentine’s Day sensory bins are all perfect for those of you who need a sensory play activity for your kids with a Valentine’s Day focus! You could use these Valentine’s Day activities for fine motor practice, or to go with a heart, kindness or love theme in your classroom.
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Valentine’s Day Sensory Bins
This Valentine’s Day Activity-Candy Heart Water Play activity will be so much fun for the little ones. They are sure to enjoy playing with one of their favorite Valentine’s Day candies, candy hearts, and more. It’s also a simple way to tie in science as children explore sinking, floating, and the impact of water on the candy hearts!
Your preschoolers are sure to love this Valentine’s Day Sensory Bin that is perfect for February. The use of scoops and tongs adds extra fun and will help children develop fine motor skills.
This Valentine Sensory Bin is made from materials that you can usually pick up at Dollar Tree, and it’s full of interesting textures to explore. These fun materials like pink and red heart gems, glittery table scatter foam hearts, and more can be used used to extend learning.
Children will have fun sorting red, pink, and purple hearts using this Colorful Hearts Sensory Bin for Valentine’s Day. With this activity, kids will be able to practice identifying and matching colors.
This Valentine’s Day Sensory Bin uses colorful shredded paper, heart-shaped cookie cutters, and more to allow kids to practice their fine motor skills while exploring fun textures.
Water play tends to be engaging and soothing for little ones. This cute Flower Petal Sensory Play uses wilted flower petals and repurposes them for a super fun water play activity.
Kids will definitely have fun with this Valentine’s Day Foam Sensory Tub as they get to play with colorful foam. They can use various utensils to scoop up and feel the foam and are sure to have a blast.
Children can explore Valentine’s Day science with this Candy Hearts Oobleck Science Sensory Play activity. This activity uses homemade Oobleck that’s great for kids who really love to dig in and get messy.
This Chocolate Soap Foam sensory activity is a super easy and fun sensory play bin for kids. They are sure to have fun exploring their sense of touch as well as their sense of smell with the yummy chocolate aroma.
Your children are sure to love the feel of the grains in their hands and have a blast shoveling the contents of this Valentine’s Day Sensory Bin into cups or through funnels.
This adorable Valentine’s Day Themed Sensory Bin for Toddlers and Preschoolers has so many great textures and bright colors. The best part is the flowers, hearts, and cute little owls.
Kids will love this cute Flowers Sensory Play activity. It’s an adorable little garden setup with faux flowers, dirt & rocks. This would be perfect for a sensory table.
PRINTABLE VALENTINE’S DAY THEME LESSON PLANS
Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we’ve provided different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.
Learn about healthy hearts, symmetry and more in this week-long lesson plan set full of hands-on math, reading, & science learning activities for a preschool heart theme that’s perfect for Valentine’s Day. Watch this short video to see just a few examples of the types of activities and printables included in this set:
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Thank you for these great ideas!