Valentine's Day: Hearts Colour Match Cards Activity | EYFS Printables

Early Years (EYFS) Valentine’s Day Activity: Colour Match HEarts Cards

Consolidate essential early learning skills this Valentine's Day with our engaging Valentine's Day: Hearts Colour Match Cards Activity! This delightful printable is perfect for EYFS children, offering an interactive way to develop colour recognition, shape knowledge, early literacy skills (connecting words to colours), memory, and visual discrimination.

Ideal for Preschool, Nursery, School, or for Parents and Childminders at home, this versatile set of cards makes learning vibrant and fun, all wrapped in a charming heart theme.

This comprehensive pack features:

• A set of matching cards:

  • One half of each pair has a heart image of a particular colour (e.g., a red heart).

  • The other half has the corresponding colour name written in that same colour (e.g., 'red' written in red text), creating a powerful visual cue for children beginning to recognise print.

• Uniform Card Backing: All cards have the same design on the back once printed, folded, and laminated.

• Built-in Backing Tab: Each card includes a backing tab for folding before lamination. This clever design provides a more robust final product and ensures that when the card is face down, you are unable to see the colour or word on the front, maintaining the integrity of memory games.

(Note: Please use your own discretion and knowledge of your children to ensure appropriateness of each activity suggested on this page and safety concerning any materials given and activity undertaken.)

• 💡 How to use this resource in your classroom/setting

  Our Valentine's Day: Hearts Colour Match Cards Activity is incredibly versatile and can be used in a multitude of ways across various early years environments:

  • Matching Activity:

    • Place all cards face up on a table or on the floor. Children can simply match the heart image cards to their corresponding colour name cards. This is excellent for consolidating colour recognition and beginning to make connections between spoken words and written print.

    • Encourage children to say the colour name aloud as they make a match.

  • 'Picking up Pairs' Memory Game:

    • Laminate the cards (ensuring tabs are folded over) and place them face down in a grid.

    • Children take turns flipping over two cards, trying to find a matching pair (a coloured heart and its written colour name). This is fantastic for memory skills, turn-taking, and sustained concentration.

  • Flashcards:

    • Use the heart image cards as flashcards for quick colour recognition.

    • Use the word cards as flashcards for introducing colour names as sight words.

    • Combine both for a 'what's this colour? what does the word say?' activity.

  • Vocabulary Development: Actively discuss the names of the colours as children manipulate the cards. "You found the blue heart and the word 'blue'!"

  • Fine Motor Development: The act of picking up, flipping, and placing the cards helps to strengthen small hand muscles and enhance hand-eye coordination.

  • Early Literacy Connection: Highlight that the written word says the name of the colour, helping children to understand that print has meaning and can be 'read'.

• 🎯 Learning objectives covered - 🐣 EYFS Framework

  This engaging activity supports key developmental areas within the EYFS framework:

  • Communication and Language (Listening, Attention & Understanding; Speaking): Children listen to instructions, maintain attention, articulate colour names, and discuss their matches.

  • Literacy (Reading): Children begin to understand that print carries meaning, linking written colour names to their corresponding colours. This supports early word recognition (sight words).

  • Mathematics (Shape, Space and Measure): Children recognise and name common 2-D shapes (hearts). They also consolidate their understanding of colours.

  • Physical Development (Fine Motor Skills): Manipulating the cards helps to develop finger dexterity and hand-eye coordination.

  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Self-Regulation; Building Relationships): Playing turn-taking games fosters self-control, patience, and positive social interaction.

  • Cognition and Learning: Developing observational skills, memory, and logical thinking to solve the puzzles.

Download our Valentine's Day: Hearts Colour Match Cards Activity today and make learning colours and words a heartfelt experience for your EYFS learners!

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