Valentine’s Day Light Table Activities

This super easy Valentine’s Day activity is perfect for your light table. Your kids will have a blast making and learning the letters of the alphabet with a seasonal twist!

When your kids are picking up and manipulating the plastic hearts on the light table they’ll be developing those important fine motor skills too!

Valentine’s Day Light Table Activities

Here are the supplies you will need to set-up this activity in your own classroom.

• Heart Table Scatter (dollar store)
• Laminating Film
• Laminator
• Permanent Marker
• Alphabet Fine Motor Pages
• DIY Light Table

Hearts on the Light Table

You will need a scrap of leftover laminating film or you can run an empty laminating pouch through your Scotch laminator.

Next, place the laminating sheet over a page from the Alphabet Fine Motor pack and use your permanent marker to trace the letter.

If you have transparencies and the ability to print on transparency sheets, then you can skip this step, it’s just a workaround because not everybody has access to those things.

Valentine Hearts on the Light table

Table scatter for different seasons and holidays can often be found at your local dollar or craft store, it’s perfect for playing and learning on the light table! These plastic hearts were purchased from my local Dollar Tree store in the seasonal section.

If you have children who still put things in their mouths then careful supervision will be necessary for this activity.

Learning Letters on the Light Table

After you have traced your preferred letters on the laminating film, you can place your heart table scatter in a container or basket near your light table. If you don’t have a light table, here’s a tutorial that shows you how to make your own light table that won’t break the bank.

Invite your children to place a laminating sheet on the light table and to use the hearts to fill in the letters.

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These plastic hearts are also great for developing those fine motor skills – the small muscles in the hands used for holding crayons and pencils. Your kids will be exercising their hands as they pick up and move the hearts, but they’ll be playing and having fun while they do it – that’s a win-win in my book!

You could also use colored floral gems from your local dollar or craft store to fill in the letters. Colored gems are always available and they’re flat on the bottom so they won’t roll off your light table.

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