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5 Fun February and Valentine’s Day Activities to Engage Your Students

December 29, 2024 teachersbrain Teacher's Pay Teachers, Winter

February is packed with exciting opportunities to spark creativity, encourage teamwork, and promote meaningful learning in your elementary classroom. From Valentine’s Day to Black History Month and the 100th Day of School, there’s tons to choose from. If you are looking for Valentine’s Day activities, Black History Month activities, or 100th day of school activities, you’re in the right place.

Here are five engaging activities to make February a month to remember!

1. Valentine’s Day Activities: Crafts

Get your students’ creativity flowing with Valentine’s Day crafts! These projects are perfect for focusing on fine motor skills while letting students express their artistic side. One idea is to have students create some sweet cards for classmates, family members, or local community members. For a low-prep, high-fun option, check out my Valentine’s Day Activities & Crafts, which include templates and instructions to make the day extra special.

2. Valentine’s Day Activites: Escape Room

Turn Valentine’s Day into an exciting learning adventure with a themed escape room! This activity challenges students to solve puzzles and work collaboratively to achieve a common goal. My Valentine’s Day Escape Room: Vocabulary & Numbers resource is perfect for practicing essential skills in a fun, interactive way!

3. Celebrate Friendship

February is a great time to teach the importance of kindness and friendship. Have your students create a bulletin board that highlights what friendship means to them. Use this Friendship Bulletin Board Kit to make this activity simple and visually stunning. Students can contribute by writing about acts of kindness or sharing how they build strong relationships with peers.

4. Martin Luther King Jr. Activities

In honor of Black History Month, dive into meaningful lessons about Martin Luther King Jr. and his impact on the world. This Martin Luther King Jr. Activities for Kindergarten-2nd Grade resource provides a wonderful way to engage young learners in discussions about equality, courage, and leadership. These resources include writing prompts, crafts, and more.

5. 100th Day of School Celebration

February often marks the 100th day of school, a milestone worth celebrating! Plan a day full of math challenges, creative writing, and themed activities to recognize how far your students have come. The 100th Day of School Activities resource offers both virtual and print options so you can choose the best way to do them.

There you have it! By incorporating these February Valentine’s activities, Black History Month activities, and 100th day of school activities into your February plans, you’ll have tons of engaging and fun learning planned out for the month.

What are your favorite Valentine’s Day activities or activities to do in February? Let me know in the comments!

Want more Valentine’s Day activities and ideas? Check out my post here!

How To Celebrate the 100th Day of School Virtually

December 26, 2021 teachersbrain Distance Learning, Teaching Tips

The 100th day of school is generally in February every year and it is a milestone that teachers and students everywhere like to celebrate. It is fun to reflect on the year so far and see how far the students have come academically, socially, and emotionally! You and your students have worked so hard, it is worth celebrating all you have accomplished over the year.

How do you celebrate the 100th day of school?

In the younger elementary grades, it’s really fun to go all out with a classroom celebration. This is a huge milestone, after all! You could make a whole day out of it with fun 100th day of school-themed activities and even delicious snacks.

With the ongoing pandemic, this may be harder to do this year with so many schools still doing virtual classes. If that’s the case, don’t fret. You can still make it a fun and exciting day for your students from afar.

How do you celebrate the 100th day of school virtually?

There are multiple ways to make this a especially day while distance learning. Here are a few of my favorites.

Dress as a 100-year-old. This one is always a hit! Students can dress the way they think a 100-year-old would dress for school. It’s so cute to see the things they come up with.
Count to 100. Count 100 pieces of bubble gum together as a class. Or you can get small fake bugs and count 100 of them for the number of times students “bugged” their teacher.
Have students bring 100 of something. Students can collect something from around the house that they have 100 of and share it with the class virtually. This can be 100 paperclips, crayons, Legos, etc.
Do some 100th day of school activities virtually. This can include digital or online resources like books, videos, or teaching resources that have the 100 theme.

I created these virtual activities to make it easy to celebrate the 100th day of school online.

This resource was created with Google Slides so it is super easy to implement with your students. It comes with interactive slides with moveable parts that make learning easy.

You’ll get 16 fun and engaging 100th day of school activities that include a virtual turn yourself into a 100-year-old activity, writing prompts, ten frames, a make a clown activity, make a 100th-day monster activity, add 100 buttons to a sweater, bubble gum activity, 100 exercises, a rainbow activity, and add goldfish to a bowl. Students can also set a 100-second timer to time them on a simple and fun scavenger hunt.

There’s so much fun to be had with this resource! You can pick and choose the activities you want or just push them out one at a time.

I love that these are editable so you can change things around based on your needs within Google Slides.

If you are in the classroom and want to do these activities in person- no problem! It comes with 18 black and white slides as well that are easy to print out and use in the classroom.

You can check out the video tutorial for this resource here!

How do you like to celebrate the 100th day of school? Let me know in the comments!