Kids can participate in Valentine’s Day decorating and gift-giving with this collection of our 12 best valentine crafts for kids. With these crafts, kids can help Mom decorate for the holiday or create their own valentines to give to family and friends. For educators, these valentine crafts for kids also make wonderful classroom activities for arts and crafts. These valentine crafts for kids use inexpensive materials and are fun for families to do together.
Here are the top 12 Valentine Crafts for Kids:
- Easy Valentine Bags (shown above)- Decorate plain paper bags for kids to store valentines and sweets from Valentine’s Day parties at school. Kids can help decorate their own bags and even add their names in colored foam.
- Candy Valentines with Printable- Print out four different valentines with a free printable pattern. Print in black and white and have the kids color for fun and easy valentine crafts for kids.
- Clay Pot Love Fairy- Have the kids paint the clay pot and wood shapes in the solid colors for this Valentine’s Day craft. To make decorating with hearts easier for kids, you can also cut out a heart shape from an eraser and affix to a wood skewer. Then, kids can dip and stamp hearts over the pot.
- Valentine’s Day Busy Book- For a fun activity for small children just learning to dress themselves, create this adorable Valentine’s Day busy book with hearts to button on and off the felt.
- Valentine Wrapping Paper- All you need is white paper, red paint and a heart cookie cutter to create cute wrapping paper for Valentine’s Day gifts. Kids will stamping heart shapes onto the white paper. You can also use this idea on fabric to create a table runner or other accent.
- Chocolate Kiss Mouse Valentine- Use chocolate kisses to create cute mouse valentines this holiday. Kids can hand these out in classroom valentine exchanges. Animal valentines make the best valentine crafts for kids!
- Valentine’s Day Heart Tree- Kids love working with foam to create hearts for Valentine’s Day. For a fun classroom decoration, each of the children can decorate their own heart to hang on the classroom tree.
- Cupid’s Candy Arrow- Use heart-shaped gummy candies to create arrows worthy of Cupid himself. These are a fun alternative to flat paper valentines, but just be careful with the skewers!
- Kid’s Valentine Cone- Parents can help create this pretty, hanging cone for Valentine’s Day. Painted letters spell out “Sweet.” Kids can fill with treats from their classroom parties.
- Easy Valentine Photo Pins- Make a special photo heart pin for Dad, Grandma or any loved one with the help of pipe cleaners. Kids can help choose the photo and cut out the heart shape.
- Felt Conversation Hearts- Use felt letter stickers to create your own personalized messages on felt hearts. Kids will love coming up with sentiments and they can pass out as valentines in classroom exchanges.
- Melted Crayon Heart Valentines- With broken crayon pieces and a silicon heart mold, you can create crayon hearts. Affix these hearts to paper for Valentines that are sure to please everyone.
