It’s Valentine’s season! That means hearts, pink, candy, and Valentines STEM activities (if you’re visiting STEAMsational, that is). Today we’re all about kindergarten. Here you’ll find a list of our favorite Valentine’s Day STEM activities for kindergarten. Choose a few to do this February in the classroom or at home!
Looking for a kindergarten STEM activity with a Valentine’s Day twist? Try these fun Valentine’s Day STEM activities for kindergarten.
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Valentine’s Day STEM Activities for Kindergarten
It’s super fun to bring seasonal holidays into the kindergarten science classroom. All of the activities on this list are appropriate for kindergarten and have been tested by kindergartners.
In this list of Valentine’s Day STEM activities for kindergarten, you’ll find STEM activities about hearts, candy, coding activities, engineering challenges, building challenges, science experiments, math challenges, and more, all with fun Valentine’s Day colors and themes.
Classroom-Friendly Valentine Shirts
I love wearing fun Valentine-themed shirts in the classroom during February. Here are a few of my favorite Valentine Shirts for Teachers.
Be Kind Valentine Teacher Shirt
I Love You Sign Language Teacher Shirt
Kindness Teacher Valentines Day Shirt
Wood Heart Earrings for Valentine’s Day
Teaching Sweethearts Valentine’s Day Teacher Shirt
My Class is Full of Sweethearts Teacher Valentine’s Day Shirt
Tie Dye Heart Shirt for Teachers
Love All Day Every Day Teacher Valentine’s Day Shirt
Painted Heart Valentine’s Day Shirt for Teachers
Heart Fractions Math Teacher Valentine’s Day Shirt
Penguin Heart Teacher Earrings
Valentine Alphabet Teacher Shirt
Heart Envelope Valentine Earrings
ASL Sign Language Love Valentine ASL Teacher Shirt
All We Need is Love Globe Shirt
Valentine Elements Chemistry Teacher Shirt
Valentine SPED Teacher Inclusion Valentine’s Day Teaching Shirt
Teaching Valentine Conversation Hearts Shirt for Valentine’s Day
This Teacher Loves Her Students Valentine’s Day Shirt
Valentine Dinosaur Love Valentine’s Day Shirt for Teachers
Wearing a fun shirt, decorating the classroom with red and pink decorations, and doing other fun Valentine’s Day activities will make Valentine’s Day about more than just cardboard Valentines and candy.
What is STEM in Kindergarten?
A STEM activity is similar to an expanded science experiment. STEM activities look for ways to bring science, technology, engineering, math (and sometimes art or design) into the science classroom.
Children need to learn how all of these subjects work together to make the field of “science” that is part of our world. Using Valentine’s Day STEM activities for kindergarten makes it even more fun!
In kindergarten, STEM doesn’t focus as much on the technical side of science but instead provides a framework for intelligent and organized exploration of the world.
A kindergartener can learn to ask a question before starting a science investigation. They can learn about the tools that they can use to conduct the experiment.
They can learn about measuring and counting with a scientific lens. And they can learn that all science investigations should have order and follow procedure.
This is the goal of kindergarten STEM activities.
Additionally, kindergarten STEM activities (particularly during Valentine’s Day!) are all about exploring the world and having fun with science!
If you want more Valentine’s Day STEM, check out our list of Valentines STEM activities.
Supplies for Kindergarten STEM Activities
Here are some supplies you may want to have before completing any Valentine kindergarten STEM activities.
Teaching Resources for Valentine’s Day
Here are some fun STEM teaching resources for Valentine’s Day that you can use in the classroom.
Browse the entire category of Valentine’s Day classroom supplies here or grab some of my Valentine’s Day favorites from the list below.
Exploding Candy Lab Science Kit
Chemistreats Classroom Candy Science Kits
Lollipop Lab Candy Science Kit
Valentine Building Block Bears
LEGO Friends Flower and Chocolate Kit
LEGO Pop up Valentine Card with Swans
The Complete List of Valentine’s Day STEM Activities for Kindergarten
In February, the first half of the month is all about hearts, love, and Valentine’s Day!
Bring some of that seasonal fun into the kindergarten science classroom with these Valentine’s Day STEM activities for kindergarten.
In Valentines Day Math use conversation hearts as counters!
Kids can learn what colors are hiding in their markers with this fun Heart Marker Chromatography project. Use non-primary colors for the best results.
Valentine Classroom Decorations
Add some Valentine’s Day festivities and flair to your classroom with these classroom decorations for Valentine’s Day!
Valentine’s Day Door Decorating Kit
Tissue Paper Classroom Valentine’s Door Decorations
Valentine’s Day Classroom Window Clings
Valentine Letters Classroom Door Decorations
Valentine’s Day Classroom Decorating Kit
Our Class is Sweet Cupcake Valentine’s Day Classroom Decorating Kit
Our Love for Learning Grows and Grows Classroom Decorations
A Class Full of Sweethearts Classroom Decorations for Valentine’s Day
Valentine Glitter Slime is made due to chemical bonding between different molecules. Kindergarten kids can learn a little about the science while making their own pink glitter glue slime.
Did you know you can use conversation hearts to make an easy oobleck recipe? This conversation heart non-Newtonian fluid is both a science lesson and offers sensory fun.
Make a lava lamp with a Valentine’s Day twist! Kindergarten kids will love repeating this Lava Lamp Science Experiment over and over.
Classroom Valentines from Teachers to Kids
Your students will love any of these creative classroom valentines for kids from their teacher!
Printable Tea Pun Valentines that Kids Will Love
Zoo You Want to Be My Valentine Zoo Printable Valentines
Army Men Printable Valentines for Kids
Printable STEM Valentines for Kids
Ingenious School Valentines Ideas For Classmates
Magic Erupting Color Reveal Science Valentines for Kids
Printable Punny Chemistry Valentines for Kids
Printable LEGO Valentines for Aspiring Engineers!
Invisible Ink Classroom Valentines
Classroom Valentine Food Building Valentines
Parachute Classroom Valentines
Classroom Valentines Erupting Volcano Science
Classroom STEM Robot Building Kit
Classroom Fuse Bead Valentines
Paper Plane Classroom Valentines
Flower Building Classroom Valentines
Valentines Day Appliance Building Block Valentines
Animal Building Classroom Valentines
Kindergarten kids love fizzing and bubbling science experiments. These heart-shaped baking soda blocks are a fun way to teach Valentines Day baking soda science to kids.
A coding caterpillar is one of the first coding tools that kids can use alone. Show kids how they can program the caterpillar to land on heart pads made from paper in this Valentine’s Day Caterpillar Coding challenge.
Tell someone you love them in binary with secret message Coding Bracelets! Kindergartners will love stringing these binary-coded bracelets and handing them out to friends.
Kindergarten kids can learn about magnets with this fun Valentine Discovery Bottle.
Nothing is more fun than building a love bug for Valentine’s Day! This Love Bug craft is a fun mixture of open-ended craft and engineering challenges for kindergarten kids.
See what structures you can make using conversation hearts as building materials. You may be surprised at how elaborate some of the kindergarten Conversation Heart structures are!
Can you make a heart using pattern blocks? This Pattern Block Hearts activity is a fun engineering and geometry challenge for kindergarten kids.
Learn about chemical reactions, dissolving, and mixtures in this fun Dancing Candy Heart experiment.
What are your favorite STEM activities for Valentine’s Day? We’d love to see your STEM activities in action!
My Favorite STEM Products for the Preschool Classroom
These STEM products are perfect for the preschool STEM classroom!
Homer Technology App for Kids 4-6
Mel Science Classroom STEM Kits
Primary Sorting Classroom Bundle
