30 Valentine crafts and activities for kids, including heart art ideas, class Valentine’s, handmade gifts, and a list of favorite picture books about Valentine’s Day
Updated January 2021
It’s February! And you know what that means, right? It’s time to start thinking about heart art and Valentine crafts!
If you haven’t already, that is.
I don’t know about you, but we start making hearts part of our creative making and playing on the early side. Sometimes a full month in advance, because, well, HEARTS! But in the interest of keeping things a little more seasonally appropriate for the rest of you I decided to wait until February 1st for this post.
So here you go!
A whole month of Valentine crafts and activities for kids, including heart art, craft projects, handmade gifts, Valentine treats, books about Valentine’s Day, and more!
30 Valentine Crafts and Activities for Kids
Note: Please feel free to add your own favorite Valentine’s Day crafts and activities in a comment at the end of this post!
5 Valentine Process Art Projects
There’s always simply drawing, collaging, or painting on heart-shaped paper, but here are some more elaborate heart art activities.
2) Faux stained glass Valentines with black glue
3) 12 Valentine process art ideas
4) Papel picado
5) Heart art and a lesson in mixing colors
6 Valentine Crafts for Kids
6) How to make suncatcher heartstrings with melted crayon hearts
8) Coffee filter hearts for the window
9) 10 Valentine crafts to make from kids’ process art
10) How to make heart suncatchers with lace and ribbons
5 Class Valentines Kids Can Make
(See also the color-mixing Valentine’s under heart art activities and the process art Valentine’s under crafts above.)
12) DIY Valentines for kids with cardboard hearts
14) Get creative with metallic art on black hearts
16) Easy foil heart valentines
4 Valentine Activities for Kids
17) Painting a map of my heart
18) An interactive heart drawing activity
19) Hearts and lace prints in playdough
20) Process-oriented lacing heart Valentines
5 Handmade Heart Gifts to Make
21) Lace heart ornaments and magnets made out of air dry clay
22) How to make heart shirts for kids
23) Heart pillows that double as soothing hot/cold packs
24) How to make DIY gift bags for Valentine’s Day
25) Clay coil hearts
4 Valentine Treats to Bake
You can cook just about anything in a heart shape, right? We’ve made heart cookies, of course, but also heart cakes, heart lollipops, heart-shaped hand pies, heart pizzas, and even heart-shaped doughnuts!
26) Bake heart-shaped cherry hand pies
27) Make cranberry oatmeal heart cookies
28) Make heart-shaped pretzels
29) Make peanut butter cups in heart molds
Read Valentine Books for Kids
30) Head to the library and check out some books about Valentine’s Day.
Need some suggestions? Ask your children’s librarian or try some of these:
- The Day it Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond
- Franklin’s Valentines by Paulette Bourgeois
- Pete the Cat: Valentine’s Day is Cool by James and Kimberly Dean
- Roses are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink by Diane deGroat
- The Biggest Valentine Ever by Steven Kroll and Jeni Bassett
- How Do I Love You? by P.K. Hallinan
- If Kisses Were Colors by Janet Lawler
How about you? What are your favorite Valentine crafts and activities for kids? Something from this list or something different? Please share in the comments!
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