Heart Threading Fine Motor and Patterning Activity

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we are getting our February learning activities all prepped and ready. Heart-themed learning fun is definitely on the agenda this month, and we are excited for our latest Valentine’s Day activity. Your kids will have a blast working on fine motor skills, patterns, and color sorting with this fun Heart Threading Fine Motor and Patterning Activity!

*Pair with our Pattern Centers and Activities for Pre-K & Kindergarten!

Heart Threading Fine Motor and Patterning Activity

This heart threading and patterning tray is easy to set up and is perfect for independent learning as a February center activity! 

You could even add it to your class Valentine’s Day party plans as a station. If you twist the pipe cleaners up after they make their patterns, kids could wear them as bracelets or take them home!

For this activity you will need:

• Pipe cleaners
• Red, white, pink, and purple craft foam (or precut craft foam hearts)
• Hole punch
• Scissors
• Compartment tray

How to Prep

If you do not have precut hearts, you will begin by cutting hearts out of the craft foam. Cut them by hand, or use a heart punch!

You can make the hearts various sizes if you wish.

RELATED RESOURCE: Valentine’s Day Centers and Activities for Pre-K & Kindergarten

Next, make holes in each heart with a regular hole punch for the pipe cleaner to fit through.

How to Play

Add the heart and pipe cleaners to a tray as an invitation to play, or you could give specific instructions like:

• Thread together all the red hearts.
• Make a pattern with red and pink hearts.
• Count the hearts.
• How many hearts will fit onto a pipe cleaner?

You can even make little cards to show a pattern sequence for the kids to copy to work on visual perception skills.

This activity has endless learning opportunities and will be enjoyed by preschoolers and kindergarteners alike!

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