Valentine’s Day is around the corner and a great time to get young language learners to practice English while appreciating their peers, teachers, and friends. This holiday is known for children designing cards with messages of love and appreciation. With web tools and apps young learners are able to send family members, peers, and adults digital greetings and creations. Below are free websites and apps to get your young language learners excited about creating Valentine’s Day greetings in English. For more ideas on how to use web tools and apps to get your young language learners to use technology creatively check out our webinar recording, Valentine’s Day Activities. To learn more about integrating technology to support English language learners, attend our TESOL webinars.
Websites, Apps, and Resources
- Join the Global Virtual Valentines Project. Classrooms worldwide create digital (or virtual) Valentine’s Day greetings for each other.
- Find word searches, crosswords, worksheets, rhymes and more at Boggles World ESL.
- Students can send a Valentine’s Day greeting with Starfall and practice their spelling, writing, and pronunciation skills.
- Students can create a word cloud of the characteristics they love about a peer or family member with this heart shaped word cloud tool.
- Students can create sonnets and love poems with the Poetry Engine, an online interactive.
- Students can create poetry with this virtual love magnetic poetry set.
- Valentine’s Math Journey is a game for children that helps with their reading and listening skills.
- Here is a cool candy hearts science experiment for learners.
- Do you teach CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) or science? Get students to create Valentine’s messages in invisible ink for their peers or use this cool idea where students create invisible messages and learn about osmosis.
- Here’s a Love Potion lesson plan pair activity I created. Students work in pairs to create a love potion and write the spell chant.
- Create an animated Valentine’s Day gif with Piskel.
- Children will love creating Valentine’s day cards or poems using free web tools and apps, such as Magisto, Powtoon, Adobe Slate, Yakit for Kids, EduBuncee, Canva, Fotobabble, and Red Stamp.
