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3 Heart Name Crafts for Preschoolers To Make This Valentine’s Day

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Three heart name crafts the kids will love to make this Valentine’s Day. Be sure to grab the free printable heart letters at the bottom of the post and add this to your list of valentine activities for preschoolers.


I’m often asked about how to teach young children letters, especially since I disagree with using “letter of the week”.

To answer that question, I always reference using hands-on, engaging activities and real experiences. And I always, always, always suggest starting with children’s names.

Why use the kids’ names to teach? Because kids’ names are important to them. Which makes total and complete sense when you take a moment to think about it.

Table of Contents

  • 3 Heart Name Crafts for Preschoolers
    • Sticker Names
    • Hole Punch Names
    • Printable Heart Names
  • Preschool Lesson Plans for Valentine’s Day
  • Even More Heart Activities for the Kids
  • Free Printable Heart Alphabet

3 Heart Name Crafts for Preschoolers

With Valentine’s Day approaching, why not try some heart name crafts with the children?

We came up with a few different ways to use hearts to make kids’ names. Pick your favorite and try it with the children!

Sticker Names

Heart Name Crafts for Preschool and Kindergarten - Sticker Names

Related: Valentine Sensory Bin with Water Beads

For this heart name activity, you’ll want to grab some fun stickers. We used glitter foam hearts, but a simple Valentine’s Day sticker book would work just as well.

Write each child’s name on a large piece of construction paper in pencil. Depending on your students, they could write their names on the paper instead. Just make sure the names are large enough for the stickers.

The children give their fine motor skills a workout peeling the stickers and placing the stickers on the letters in their name.

While the kids are making their sticker names, talk about the letters. Encourage the children to apply the stickers to the letters based on correct letter formation. Talk about the sounds each letter makes, and come up with other words that start with those letters.

Hole Punch Names

Hole punch hearts for a Valentine's Day heart name craft

Related: Heart Crafts for Preschoolers

Of the three name activities, I think this one is my favorite. We used a heart hole punch from a local craft store, along with small squares of scrapbook paper.

Again, start with the kids’ names written on a large piece of construction paper.

Have the children hole punch hearts out of their favorite colors of scrapbook paper. This will help them with fine motor skills and hand strengthening, depending on the hole punch you use.

Heart Name Crafts for Preschool and Kindergarten - Hole Punch Names

Once the hearts are punched out, it’s time to make the names. Have the children add glue to each letter individually. Then they can add the heart cut outs.

As mentioned above, this is a great time to chat about letter names, letter sounds, and letter formation.

Printable Heart Names

While the other two heart names were focused on letter formation, this one is focused on name formation. Since the letters are already printed, the kids use them to explore putting the letters in the correct order to make their names. A bit like a Valentine’s Day version of an early childhood name kit.

Printable heart letters for a Valentine's Day heart name craft

Print out the heart letters needed for the child’s name (remember to grab the printable at the bottom of the post). If the hearts are too large for you, just reduce the size before printing. I’d suggest laminating the letters if you want the children to use them over and over again.

Grab an envelope and write the kid’s name on the front. Then add the heart letters to the envelope. Call the child over and explore putting the letters together to form the kiddo’s name. Talk about the letter names and letter sounds along the way.

Heart Name Crafts for Preschool and Kindergarten - printable heart letters

To extend the activity, add some magnetic letters for the child to to manipulate and match to the heart letters. You can also have the child write his name on a white board or in a sensory writing tray.

Alternatively, you could use the heart letters to make a slightly different heart name craft. Perhaps turn the hearts into flowers and let the children draw the stems and an environment. So many different ways to use them!

Do you have any fun name crafts you love doing with the children?

Preschool Lesson Plans for Valentine’s Day

Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes book suggestions, printable plans, over 30 learning activities (both whole group and centers) related to the theme, and corresponding printables.

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Grab the Hearts Preschool Lesson Plans and the Valentine’s Day Preschool Lesson Plans

You can also find us on Teachers Pay Teachers

Even More Heart Activities for the Kids

Be sure to check out these other fun heart ideas to try with the kids! You’ll find the links below the photo.

Heart name crafts and 23 other heart activities for kids

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:
Heart Letter Puzzles // Pocket of Preschool

Valentine Hearts Ten Frame Clip Cards // Mrs. Jones Creation Station

Heart Digraph Puzzles // The Kindergarten Connection

Printable Valentine’s Math Activities // Stay at Home Educator

Alphabet Hearts // Playdough to Plato

Valentine’s Day Emergent Reader // Sweet Sounds of Kindergarten

Heart Syllable Sort // Recipe for Teaching

Candy Hearts Count and Clip Cards // Modern Preschool

Heartbreakers Sensory Activity // Sugar Spice and Glitter

CVC Hearts // The Primary Post

Valentine’s Day Number Recognition Bingo Game // Schooling a Monkey

Valentine’s Day Activities (Heart Craft & Cutting Practice) // Fairy Poppins

Heart Counting Cards // Powerful Mothering

Sorting Hearts Fine Motor Tray // Teach Me Mommy

Candy Heart Estimation Station // The STEM Laboratory

Contraction Conversation Hearts // The Simplified Classroom

Chocolate Heart Play Dough Mats // Fantastic Fun and Learning

Jar of Hearts: Editable Sight Words to Read and Write // Liz’s Early Learning Spot

Hearts Make Ten Game // Sara J Creations

Heart Roll, Cover and Write Mats // Fun Learning for Kids

Heart Ice and Oil Density Experiment // Science Kiddo

Candy Heart Sentences // Pages of Grace

Heart Sight Word Match // The Letters of Literacy

Heart Name Crafts // Fun-A-Day

Free Printable Heart Alphabet

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3 Heart Name Crafts and Activities for Valentine's Day

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  1. JoAnn Demorest says

    January 18, 2021 at 3:42 pm

    I am not able to open the printable heart alphabet no matter how I try.

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    • Mary Catherine says

      January 18, 2021 at 4:08 pm

      Please read the printing FAQ. Then double check that you’re trying to access it from the most up-to-date version of Adobe Reader (not a web preview). If you’re not able to see the form to have it sent to your email, you might be blocking pop-ups. Feel free to email me with further questions – mc@fun-a-day.com.

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