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Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt with Free Printables

Create your own Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt for your child!  They will love it and want to do it again and again. 

It’s a special bonding activity for you and your child and the bonus is… it encourages READING!

Valentines Day Scavenger Hunt for Kids

Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt

Grab some plastic heart containers from the Dollar Tree or Target’s Dollar Spot or any small container, a bag of M&M’s or small heart beads and print out the clues below.  It’s fun to collect them into a Heart Tray too!

Now it’s time to hid them all over your house!

Secret Message Hearts for Kids Scavenger Hunt

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Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt for Kids

My daughters had so much fun searching the house and finding each of the secret messages inside.  I made sure to tell her how many there were when we started and that I had enough candies split between them so that when she got to the last one she could create her secret message on the large paper.

Valentines Day Scavenger Hunt with Free Printable Messages

Once your collect all the hearts and messages use those fine motor skills and place onto the paper to find your secret code. This smile to TOTALLY worth the effort of playing this game again and again!

Valentines Day Printable Scavenger Hunt for Kids

Guess who joined in the fun as we search and searched all week long! Little Sister! My daughter even started creating her own little love message for my husband and I to find. What a special treat to have little love notes left all over for you to find.

Happy Valentine’s Day from The Educators’ Spin On It.

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Grab your FREE Printables!

Printable Cards for Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt

Cut up the messages to fit inside your hearts or containers. Here’s a blank one too to make your own messages, Picasa or Picmonkey work well to create for free.

Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt with Free Printables from the Educators' Spin On It
Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt with Free Printables from the Educators' Spin On It
Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt with Free Printables from the Educators' Spin On It

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Make a very special Bear some someone Beary Special in your life!

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About Kim Vij

Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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Comments

  1. Crystal says

    February 12, 2013 at 12:07 am

    Cute idea!

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  2. Amie M says

    February 12, 2013 at 9:07 am

    What a gorgeous way to say I love you to your kids 🙂 and for them to show you back with little notes. So sweet!

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  3. Happy Home Fairy says

    February 12, 2013 at 9:28 am

    This is so great! I am printing right now to do with my Happy Buddy after school today! THANK YOU so much!

    Reply
  4. Deb Chitwood says

    February 14, 2013 at 7:45 am

    What a fun idea … and I love the printables, Kim! Thanks so much for sharing them! I featured your Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt printables as Free Printable(s) of the Day at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/LivingMontessoriNow (and on Pinterest)

    Reply
  5. Rosalinda Hone says

    March 22, 2013 at 11:06 pm

    Aww, that is just too cute for words! Doing a scavenger hunt for Valentine’s Day is a nifty and sweet idea. Scavenger hunts like this is a good way to bond with your family as well. Next weekend, I’ll try and set an evening scavenger hunt with glow sticks to add some difficulty.

    Rosalinda Hone

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