Valentine's Day is this week and we at the Coffee Shop have got you covered with some fun and engaging activities and displays your students will love! Check them out below.
Digital Valentine's Day Escape Room Activities
This digital Valentine's Day escape room is a very flexible resource, as you can use all of the activities or just one (depending on the time available). The best part? You can also easily export the digital Google Slides to Power Point and easily print out the activities. Students always have fun completing holiday-related activities and this is the ultimate way to incorporate team-building skills into any classroom.
Valentine's Day Candy Hearts Writing
Have some fun on Valentine's Day with Candy Hearts! Use real candy hearts or the paper versions I included as prompts for a fun story or poem. Using the words from the hearts students can find inspiration for their writing. This is always a favorite activity for students at this time of the year! Everything is included so you can get started today! Click HERE to check it out.
Valentine's Day Literary Activities for Any Text
One of the easiest ways to incorporate Valentine's Day fun into your middle school ELA or high school English classroom is by assigning these Valentine's Day Literary Activities to your students! Whether you have your students use textual evidence to create a character dating or write a character love letter or break-up letter for whichever novel or short story you are currently reading, these activities are engaging and relevant.
Can you imagine how much fun students would have if they wrote a love letter from Juliet to Romeo? Or imagine if they chose to write a break-up letter from Romeo to Rosaline! Since these four Valentine's Day Literary Activities were designed to be used with any text, the possibilities are endless! You can find these activities here.
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Love Song Poetry Activity
Can your students tell if the lines are from a famous poem or popular love song? Chances are, they will struggle! This activity is such a fun game to play around Valentine's Day, but it also works during poetry month or anytime of year. The bundle includes a 30-question quiz in which students are given the names of the poets and music artists. You can give them several minutes to complete it individually, in pairs, or in groups. Then you can show them the presentation where they can check to see how well they did! It's such an engaging way to show them that poetry (and perhaps love 😘) is all around them. This bundle also includes a bulletin board you can display after all your students have completed the quiz. It's sure to be a hit! Download it here: Love Song or Poem Activity Bundle
Who Has the Love Letter? Reading Mystery
Try using a Valentine's Day Reading Mystery activity to engage your students and challenge them to look for text evidence, infer information, and read more closely. Put your students in small groups and share the back story to the mystery: Amanda absolutely loves Jack, but she is far too shy to tell him how she feels. In an effort to rid herself of the heartache, she writes him a love letter. She has no intention to let anyone (let alone her crush) see what's written in the letter, but when she sits down to do her homework at night, she realizes the love letter she wrote that day is missing from her pencil case! It's up to your students to use their close reading and inference skills to figure out who took it. Students must read a variety of evidence including a class attendance list, a seating chart, a note passed between friends, an email, the love letter, a text message, a postcard, an online gaming chat room, and a detention sign-in sheet to find clues to find the thief! Find this activity here.
Valentine's Day & Self Love
