Valentine’s Day Number Puzzles for Preschoolers
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Valentine’s Day is not just a perfect time to express love to our family, friends, co-workers, and students, but it’s also an excellent excuse to integrate teaching activities using the theme like these Valentine’s Day Number Puzzles, to get away a little bit from the daily routine, and spruce up the interest on your preschoolers, helping them develop math skills without them realizing that they are learning.
This FREE Valentine’s Day Number Puzzle will get your preschooler’s attention for sure and will fit with your Valentine’s Day theme during the entire month of February while engaging students in a fun math activity. They will love the different and colorful designs so much that they are going to engage without even noticing that they are actually practicing important math skills!
This puzzle printable includes 11 pages with numerals 0-20, that your preschoolers can use in a number of ways, to develop skills such as:
- Numeral recognition.
- Language development.
- One-to-One correspondence.
- Pre-writing/fine motor development.
- Counting.
- Concentration.
- Memory.
- Creating sets.
These Valentine’s Day Number Puzzles could be used in many ways such as:
- Small group activity
- Math center option
- Take home game
- Quiet area option
If your preschoolers have been exposed to other math puzzles, they will probably go to be able to work independently. However, new students or children who are having difficulties counting or recognizing numbers may need your guidance.
How to Prepare Valentine’s Day Number Puzzles
To get this Valentine’s Day Puzzle ready you will need these materials:
Begin by printing each page using white cardstock. Then cut out and laminate each of the cards to protect them and make them last longer.
How to Play Valentine’s Day Number Puzzles
This game can be played as an individual activity or with a partner. Keep it super simple and have the children match both pieces of the cards, the one with the numeral with the other half with the images. These puzzles are great to strengthen the children’s adding skills, concentration, memory, one-to-one correspondence, and set creation.
Extension Activities for Valentine’s Day Number Puzzle
To extend the activity you can:
- Add in manipulatives such as mini erasers, buttons, kisses, candy hearts, pom poms, or any other materials, and have the children match each number with the same amount of objects.
- Have the children trace or copy the numbers.
- Match each numeral half-card with plastic numbers.
Valentine’s Day Décor
I created some printables that will help you with this for sure. Just go click on the link below to download the ones you like.
Of course, you want your classroom to look amazing and I know these printables are not enough to get the job done. I will recommend always using artwork done by your children most than anything, but sometimes you need “a little something” to spruce things up. No worries, these are some of the materials you can use for this purpose:
Then check out my Valentine’s Day Memory Game and my Valentine’s Day Word Wall Cards to get them too, to expand your Valentine’s Day activities collection, and help your preschoolers have fun while learning.
Now, we cannot forget Music and Movement time, right? Of course not! It is important to offer your preschoolers variety in everything you do. Remember that children that young get bored quickly, and it is important not only to keep their interest high but also to expose them to different situations, music, books, and scenarios to increase their knowledge of the world around them.
Some of the music you can use are:
Pin It for Later
If you don’t have time to download your printable but want to save it for later, just pin it to your Valentine’s Day or any other of your Pinterest boards.
Don’t forget to grab your free Valentine’s Day Math Activity printable! Just click on the link below, type your information and you’ll receive your download right away.
I hope you enjoy these activities and printables, and help you have a memorable and fun Valentine’s Day with your preschoolers.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
P.S. If you would like to see an article about how to make something specific, please let me know and I will try my best to write it for you. My goal is to help you in any way I can and I don’t like anything better than to post something that you might find useful.
