Does your child like to make homemade valentines cards? Here are 12 fun homemade valentines for kids to make this Valentine’s Day. This post is featured in Twinkl’s Valentine’s Day Campaign, The Ultimate Valentine’s Day Activity Pack
Updated January 2025
Valentines’s Day is a fun opportunity to get creative and what better place to start than with homemade valentines?
As a kid, we remember spending hours making valentines. And now as parents, we love joining our kids in making theirs! We’ve gathered together a list of DIY valentines card ideas that kids can make. In true process art fashion, each one will be unique!
And if you’re like us and have a pile of kids’ artwork lying around, you can always repurpose it into valentines! Marbled paper, splatter painting, etc. all look great cut into hearts!
Homemade Valentines Cards
1. Cardboard Heart Valentines
Paint cardboard heart cut outs, then decorate as you choose. Small hearts make adorable handmade valentines!
2. Watercolor Heart Resist
These valentines are inspired by Lori Wenger and make colorful homemade valentines that kids will love to make!
3. Taylor Swift Valentines
Download our free printable and craft up some Taylor Swift Valentines and friendship bracelets perfect for any Swiftie in your life. So easy and so fun!
4. Watercolor Hearts
Sometimes simple is best like with these painted watercolor valentines inspired by Bar Rucci.
5. Potato Heart Prints
Create your own heart stamps with a mini cookie cutter and stamp some adorable heart shape potato prints.
6. Stained Glass Valentines with Black Glue
“Draw” with black glue, let dry, then paint! An easy glue resist activity for handmade valentine cards.
7. Glitter Rock Valentines
These glitter rock valentines are simple for kids to make and something unique to give to friends. All you need are small rocks, glue, and glitter!
8. Pointillism Hearts with Q-tips
Pointillism with Q-tips is a super-easy-yet-interesting activity for quick and beautiful art.
9. Beeswax Hearts
These beeswax heart candles are a fun handicraft and the heart outline left behind makes a perfect DIY Valentine card idea. (Inspiration for this project comes from Ashley on Woodlark.)
10. Spin Art Hearts
Spin painting is a favorite kids art activity that can be done with a salad spinner or with a kids spin art machine.
11. Stamped Valentines
Make your own stamps by adding craft foam to corks or lids.
12. Fingerprint Valentines
It doesn’t get any easier than fingerprints for your DIY valentines!
Set up a Valentine Making Station!
You can also turn your process art into colorful homemade valentines. Set out your kids leftover artwork, stickers, markers, and colored paper and let kids decorate these all month long!
More Valentine Arts & Crafts for Kids
- 30 Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids
- 11 Valentine Sensory Bin Ideas for Kids
- 10 Valentine Crafts for Toddlers
- 25 Valentine’s Day Books for Kids
- 14 Easy Valentine’s Crafts for Kids
- 5 Valentine Craft Ideas from Kids’ Artwork
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!
