❤️ Valentine’s Day Poetry for KS2: Fun Writing Activities About Love & Friendship ✍️💌
🌟 Why Try Valentine’s Day Poetry in KS2?
Valentine’s Day is a fantastic chance to bring humour, fun, and creativity into poetry. Children love writing about friendships, crushes, and kindness — and it can be silly, cheeky, or heartfelt.
Through Valentine’s Day poetry KS2, pupils can:
Play with rhyme, rhythm, and humour 🎭
Build vocabulary around emotions and description 💬
Link poetry to PSHE themes of kindness and respect 👫
Perform poems aloud with real comic effect 🎤
👉 I use celebrations like Valentine’s Day in my Poetry Days and online workshops to show pupils how poetry can be both funny and powerful.
Find out more about my poetry days in schools here➡ Poets in Schools – Ian Bland
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📝 Example Valentine’s Poems for KS2
1. Will You Be Mine? (Two-Voice Valentine Poem for Assemblies)
This humorous Valentine’s poem works brilliantly as a two-voice performance — one pupil performs the “sweet” verses, the other the “mean” verses. It’s perfect for assemblies and always gets laughs!
Your hair is so gorgeous your eyes are so clear
My heart can’t stop booming whenever you’re near!
Your face is a picture of everything fair
You’d make me so happy if only you’d care!
I’ve never seen anyone as ugly as you
Your face is like something I saw in the zoo!
Whenever I see you I just want to squirm
You’re really disgusting you sad little worm!
I’ll buy you some diamonds some rings and some pearls
You’re really not like the rest of the girls
You’re so very charming and funny and sweet
(I picked up the chewing gum you left on the street!)
You think you’re attractive and clever and hip
You’re really a gormless unbearable drip!
And as for the promises, presents and charm
Please go away quick or I’ll break off your arms!
I’ll be your little pixie if you’ll be my elf
I’ll pick out your bogies and eat them myself
I’ll do all your homework and all of your chores
You’ve got to believe me I want to be yours!
I really don’t care how you moan and you whine
I’d rather go out with a green bit of slime
You’re boring and ugly; you’re smelly and thick
I really don’t like you, you make me feel sick!
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2. Friendship List Poem
A friend is someone who listens.
A friend is someone who shares.
A friend is someone who laughs with you.
A friend is someone who cares.
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3. Valentine’s Haiku
Paper hearts flutter,
Messages of love and care,
Friendship shines so bright.
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4. I’ll Never Fall in Love Again!
I remember when I felt that tingle
The first time I saw Sally Bingle
Her glasses from the NHS
A beautiful year 5 princess
Her chapped and slightly peeling lips
A mouth that ate a thousand chips
A romance that was doomed to fail
A love so fresh but then went stale.
Her cotton shirt from M and S
Her flowing, swirling Tesco dress
The way she glanced,
The way she smiled,
One look from her could drive me wild.
Then Jason Dodd came on the scene
And stole my girl
And wrecked my dream.
With his Nike trainers
And his new kagool
Old “Jase” thought he was really cool
With his designer hair,
And endless smarm
My darling Sal fell for his charm
And now I stand here all alone
While Jason walks my Sally home!
And even though I’m only ten
I’ll never fall in love again!
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🎉 Fun Valentine’s Poetry Activities for KS2
💡 Love or Loathe Poems – Pupils write two verses: one about things they love, and one about things they can’t stand. Inspired by Will You Be Mine?
💡 Friendship Poetry Cards – Write a friendship list poem and decorate as a Valentine’s card for a classmate.
💡 Haiku Hearts – Pupils write a haiku about love, kindness, or friendship inside a heart outline.
💡 Performance Idea – Perform Will You Be Mine? as a two-voice poem for maximum humour, or stage I’ll Never Fall in Love Again! with “Team Ian” and “Team Jason.”
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👩🏫 Teacher Pedagogy Notes
Curriculum links: English (poetic forms, humour in poetry), PSHE (friendship, respect), Drama (performance).
Differentiation: Acrostics or list poems for support; humorous parody poems for challenge.
Engagement: Humour is a powerful hook — reluctant writers often thrive with silly Valentine’s themes.
🌟 Final Thought
Valentine’s Day poetry KS2 is about fun, laughter, and friendship. Using humour, parody, and playful language, children can create poems that are cheeky, heartfelt, or downright silly.
👉 To explore poems like this in your school, book me for a Poetry Day or join one of my online workshops.
➡ Poets in Schools – Ian Bland
