Bring Valentine’s Day fun to your classroom with these hands-on loose parts and playdough Valentine mats! Perfect for teaching 2D shapes and patterns and keeping your preschool, kindergarten, and 1st grade students engaged in playful, purposeful math learning.

Need a Fun, Hands-On Way to Teach Math this Valentine’s Day?

Valentine’s Day is such a lovely time in the classroom—so why not channel all the love and kindness into some purposeful, play-based learning?

These Loose Parts and Playdough Valentine Mats are perfect for Preschool, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade, helping you combine some seasonal fun with those essential foundational math skills.

This resource will get your students exploring 2D shapes and creating patterns in a hands-on, engaging way. It’s the perfect balance of playful learning and academic purpose and the added bonus? It gives you a stress-free way to teach Geometry and early math concepts during Valentine’s celebrations.

Save Time with Ready-to-Go Valentine’s Learning Mats

As a teacher, I know how hard it is to find activities that keep students focused while also meeting curriculum goals—especially when hearts, chocolates, and Valentine’s cards are all they’re thinking about!

That’s exactly why I created these mats. They’re ready-to-use, play-based learning activities designed to engage students while also ensuring they stay on task and make progress.

Whether it’s for playdough Valentine ideas, morning work, math centers or small group rotations, these mats will take the hassle out of planning and prep this Valentine’s Day.

What Makes These Valentine Playdough and Loose Parts Mats Special?

These Valentine themed learning mats are designed to develop fine motor skills, creative thinking, and problem-solving abilities—all while reinforcing 2D shapes and pattern-making through playdough and loose parts exploration.

Your students can explore, create, and solidify their math understanding in a fun and meaningful way.

This Valentine-Themed Playdough and Loose Parts Resource Contains:

• 13 Pattern Mats: to encourage students to identify, create, and extend patterns using playdough or loose parts.

• 8 2D Shape Mats: to support exploration of 2D shapes in a playful, age-appropriate context.

• 4 Provocation Posters: to invite inquiry, curiosity, and deeper thinking during investigation time.

• Recording Sheets & Observation Checklists: to easily track and document student learning.

• Setup Ideas and Photos: to quickly set up your centers and investigation areas with my easy -to-implement examples.

• A List of Valentine-Themed Loose Parts Ideas: Use materials like heart beads, pink pom-poms, and red bottle caps for creative, sensory-rich play.

• Printable Document Wallet Label: Keep your resources organized and classroom-ready.

Make Your Valentine’s Centers Stress-Free

These mats not only make math engaging and hands-on for your students but they also help simplify your planning.

The setup ideas and included photos make it easy for you to create inviting centers in minutes.

These Valentine Loose Parts and Playdough Mats are perfect for:

• Small group math rotations

• Morning work and soft starts to settle students into the day

• Independent work and early finisher activities

• Play-based learning centers and investigation areas

 Download this pack now and get a resource that combines play-based fun with curriculum-aligned learning.

With everything you need to create meaningful math activities, these mats will bring purposeful, curriculum aligned Valentine’s Day magic to your classroom!