Secret Letter Match Valentine’s Day Activity

This fun secret letter match Valentine’s Day activity uses the free Valentine’s Day letter match printable, a red crayon or marker, a pencil, and a red magnetic tile to create a fun and engaging way to work on and learn letters this Valentine’s Day.

Kids will love finding the hidden letters and matching them to the uppercase or lowercase letters. Makes the perfect letter recognition or letter matching activity for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and more.

This makes the best Valentine’s Day letter activity for kids. For more fun Valentine’s Day activities for early learners be sure to also check out this fun conversation heart matching colors sensory play idea.

Letter Match Valentine’s Day Activity Set-Up Tips

*There are four different free printable PDF choices for sheets to use. For this activity, you will need to print out one of the plain heart sheets with nothing written in them and one of the other heart sheets with uppercase or lowercase letters (depending on what your child needs to work on).

*Be sure to use a pencil to write the letters on the empty heart sheet. A pencil will stay hidden the best under the red crayon or marker. Other writing utensils can be seen better without the decoder tile.

*You can use a red crayon or marker to cover up the pencil letters. Scribble in all different directions (not just one direction) to really cover and hide the pencil letters better. Be sure to use red as it hides the letters the best but still allows the decoder to easily uncover them. Also, be sure to use a red magnetic tile to decode your letters.

*Once all prepped by writing out the letters in pencil and coloring them with a red marker or crayon you can leave it at this and let kids have fun decoding the letters or you can choose to cut out each of the individual hidden hearts like shown. Then kids can choose one, decode it with the magnetic tile, and set it on top of (or color in) the matching letter on the uppercase or lowercase letter sheet.

Secret Hidden Letter Match Valentine’s Decoding Activity

Materials:

• Free PDF empty heart sheet
• Free PDF uppercase or lowercase letter sheet
• Pencil
• Red crayon or marker
• Scissors
• Red magnetic tile

Directions:

1. Print out the empty heart recording sheet. Write the letters A starting in the first heart all the way to Z in the last heart with a pencil (write in uppercase or lowercase depending on what your child needs more work on).
2. Take a red crayon or marker and color in squiggles in all different directions on top of each of the pencil letters until they are hidden.
3. Cut out each of the hearts and set them aside.
4. Print out the matching uppercase or lowercase heart letter sheet and grab a red magnetic tile.
5. Pick up one of the cut-out heart shapes and hold your magnetic tile so it is on top of the heart shape. The crayon will blend in with the color on the magnetic tile and you should be able to see the pencil letter on the bottom.
6. Once you figure out what letter you’ve found either color in the matching letter on the heart letter sheet or put your cut-out heart shape on top of the matching letter on the letter sheet. Do this with all of the letters.

If you are in search of additional ideas where you can use these fun heart PDFs check out some more suggestions below:

1. Matching letter sensory bin – Fill a bin with water, cornstarch, and red or pink food coloring. Add in heart embellishments or foam stickers. Then add in resin letters that will sink to the bottom. Kids can dig and scoop in the water until they find a letter. Pull it out and find it on the corresponding heart sheet.
2. Have children practice writing their letters on the blank heart sheet.
3. Cut out the uppercase letter sheet and have children put the cut out hearts on the lowercase letter sheet.
4. Cut out the uppercase letter sheet and have children find the picture that starts with that letter on the beginning sounds sheet.
5. Laminate and cut out lowercase or uppercase letters. Hide them under sand and dig them out. Find the letters and put them on the matching lowercase or uppercase letter sheet.