5 Low Prep Valentine’s Day Activities for 2 Year Olds (using a muffin tin!)

If you’re looking for Valentine’s Day Activities for 2 year olds, be sure to try these low prep muffin tin activities! Your toddler will love learning through play with these easy, low prep activities!

Valentine’s Day Activities for 2 year olds

1 XO Match

Image shows a 12 muffin tin with the letters X and O written with dry erase marker and X and O erasers to match. The perfect addition to your Valnetines day activities for toddlers. — Try these muffin tin valentines day activities for toddlers.

This activity is easy to set up. Simply write the letters X and O with a dry erase marker on your muffin tin.

Have your toddler match the X’s and O’s to the correct spot in the tin.

I got these X and O erasers from Michaels last Valentine’s Day, but you could also use magnetic letters or sticky notes that you write the letters on!

2 Counting

Image shows a 6 muffin tin with numbers 1-5 written and heart erasers used to count to the correct number. The perfect valentine math preschool activity. — This counting activity is the perfect Valentine math preschool activity. Read to see more muffin tin activities.

For this activity, write the numbers 1-5 (or any numbers, really) on the muffin tin. Provide your toddler with some manipulatives to count (we used erasers, but candy hearts, foam stickers, or table scatter would work too!). Let your toddler count and fill the muffin tin!

3 Color Sort

Image shows a 6 muffin tin with colors red, white, and pink written and coordinating hearts to match. This Color sorting valentines ideas for toddlers is perfect! — If you’re looking for Valentines Day ideas for toddlers, grab a muffin tin and try these activities!

For this activity, we used foam and felt heart stickers we got from the dollar tree. I wrote the colors on one side of the muffin tin and had my toddlers sort the color on the other side.

4 Small, Medium, and Large Hearts

Image shows a 6 muffin tin with words small, medium, and large written. Assorted sized hearts are used to sort for these Valentine’s Day math activities preschool kids will love. — Valentine’s Day Math activities for preschool using a muffin tin!

We have been doing a lot of Big and Small sorts, so we decided to try adding in medium. My youngest toddler is not quite 2 yet, and this was definitely over her head, but she still enjoyed putting the hearts in the muffin tin…even if they weren’t quite in the right spot!

5 Matching Activity

Image shows a 6 muffin tin with an o, x, heart eraser on the top row and x, heart, o on the bottom row. Pipe cleaners are connecting the matching eraser in these valentines activities for toddlers. — Use a muffin tin to try these 5 Valentines activities for toddlers.

For this activity, we used erasers and pipe cleaners. I put erasers on the muffin tin and their matching pair on the other side. I had my toddler use pipe cleaners to match the erasers. This is a fun hands-on matching activity!

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Low Prep Valentine’s Day Activities

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