With Valentine’s day right around the corner I thought I would share a simple Valentine’s day game I created last year while I was substitute teaching. I always tried to bring in my own creative lessons and activities that I could bring with me to classrooms in different grades. I found this left the kids excited to have me, and relieved some of the pressure the classroom teacher felt to ensure they left me full day plans. However, as a sub who is trouncing from classroom to classroom you can’t always be lugging around mass quantities of materials, so simple is always the best approach.
This game is just that. All you need is a set of dice for half the class and the handout, leaving both the prep and needed materials minimal. I used this as an early finisher activity all the way up to grade 8 (even the older kids like a break to be a kid now and again) or paired it with a Valentine’s day picture book to turn it into a math activity for the primary grades. I always kept the students switching partners which made this is a great social and interactive activity that fills up the spare moments of time before transitioning to something else.
Here is the pdf version of the activity for you to download: Love Bug Game
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