Valentine Preschool Math Pack

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Now that we are entering February, it’s time to celebrate a holiday that is all about love and friendship: Valentine’s Day!

This Valentine Preschool Math Pack is a perfect way to get your preschooler practicing important early math skills with a Valentine theme.

This pack is full of easy print-and-play activities aligned to preschool learning standards. Planning your math activities for February has never been easier!

For more Valentine printables, see my Valentine Activities for Kids page.

What are preschool math skills?

Most of us probably think of math as adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing. And preschoolers aren’t generally ready to do this kind of math, of course.

But there are many early math concepts we want preschoolers to understand that will get them ready to start start adding and subtracting when they are older.

For example, preschoolers need to understand:

shapes, sizes, and patterns
that numbers represent amounts of objects
that numbers can be expressed in a variety of forms, including spoken words, written words, written number symbols, and even using fingers
how to compare quantities using terms like “less” and “more”
one-to-one correspondence (the notion that one number goes with one object when counting)

What’s in the Valentine Preschool Math Pack?

This Valentine Animals Preschool Math Pack contains more than 75 pages of developmentally appropriate, print-and-play math activities geared toward children ages 2-5.

It’s the perfect way to get your preschooler working on important early math skills in the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day!

PATTERNS ACTIVITIES

Preschoolers are learning to recognize patterns. With the activities in this pack, they will have the opportunity to identify and complete ABAB, AAB, ABB, and ABC patterns.

In addition, there’s a worksheet children can use to create their own patterns with stickers, crayons, buttons, etc.

Valentine Preschool Math Pack: patterns activities

MORE OR LESS ACTIVITIES

A key early math skill – one that comes before learning to count objects – is recognizing relative sizes of groups of objects. We want preschoolers to be able to look at two groups and know which group has more objects and which group has less.

This pack includes several different activities to work on an understanding of more vs. less, including worksheets and clip cards. In addition, the activities are differentiated for children working with smaller quantities (1 vs. 2) and children ready to work with larger quantities (up to 5).

Valentine Preschool Math Pack - more or less activities

COUNTING ACTIVITIES

Many preschoolers are ready to work on counting activities. At first, children may count objects without recognizing or understanding the symbols for the numbers they are counting. For that reason, this pack includes a number of counting activities that do not use number symbols.

For example:

Count and clip one-to-one correspondence cards
Circle the group with the same number shown on the hand
Circle the number of objects shown on the hand
Grid games

Valentine Preschool Math Pack - counting activities

NUMBERS ACTIVITIES

For children who have some proficiency with number symbols, this preschool math pack features a variety of activities to support their emerging understanding:

Circle the group with same number shown: numeral recognition
Circle the number of objects shown: numeral recognition
Clip the number that is larger
Count the objects and match the number
Clip the number showing how many items there are
Five frames
Ten frames
Twenty frames
Put the number cards in order from 1 to 10

Valentine Preschool Math Pack - number activities

SIZE AND MEASUREMENT ACTIVITIES

Preschoolers are also expected to develop an understanding of size and measurement, especially measuring with non-standard units.

Standard units are ones we typically use such as inches for measuring distance, pounds for measuring weight, and gallons for measuring volume.

Non-standard units, on the other hand, are used to introduce children to the concept of measuring without the need for them to read numbers or scales. So a child might use a non-standard measure such as steps to determine that their classroom is 30 steps long while the cafeteria is 150 steps long.

This preschool math pack includes activities where kids will sort objects by size (both little vs. big and small, medium, and large) and put objects in order from smallest to biggest.

In addition, there are both clip cards and worksheets where children will be asked to identify how many units tall a bar is.