5 Valentine craft ideas and gifts to make from your kids’ process art projects, including cards, garlands, and more.
Updated January 2025
If your kids are anything like ours, they love process art activities. And they produce endless amounts of artwork from those activities, too.
What to do with all of that artwork? You can display it or reuse it.
You can also turn that artwork, such as shaving cream marbling, into the base for a seasonal or holiday craft, gift, or decoration. And if it happens to be February, you can turn it into valentines!
A few other kids’ process art activities that work well being turned into valentines are:
Here are 5 easy ways to turn your kids artwork into sweet valentines!
5 Valentine Craft Ideas from Process Art
1. Classroom Valentines
This is a no brainer! Take all that process artwork, cut it into hearts and let your kids use it as valentines for their friends and classmates. We do this every year and attach a small treat or candy to go with the hearts.
2. Valentine’s Day Cards
For the special people in your kids’ lives (grandparents, cousins, neighbors) you can make more formal cards. Paste your kids’ heart art onto blank cards or onto cardstock to make easy Valentine’s Day cards.
3. Paper Heart Garlands
Garlands, buntings, and paper chains are easy to make and a good way to repurpose any process art into seasonal and holiday decorations. We love to cut strips of painted paper and use it to make heart paper chains!
4. A Kid-Made Art Book
You can make a kids’ art book for someone special, using a variety of artworks, including process art as Meri Cherry did with her kids.
5. Wrapping Paper
If you’ve got a Valentine gift to give, you can also repurpose children’s process art into wrapping paper. We love doing this with splatter painting most of all!
We hope you have lots of fun turning your process artwork into some sweet valentines gifts!
More Valentine Craft Ideas for Kids
- 30 Valentine Crafts and Activities for Kids (with a FREE printable list!)
- 12 Valentine’s Day Crafts for Kids
- How to Make a Valentine’s Day Garland for Kids
- DIY Valentine Decorations: Melted Crayon Hearts Garland
- How to Make DIY Valentines for Kids with Cardboard Hearts
- The Best Books for Valentine’s Day
Want even more creative ideas?
Check out our Hearts Activities pack!
We think you’re going to LOVE this sweet collection of adorable heart activities! This 32-page printable eBook is full of coloring pages, drawing prompts, games, and more!
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