Here are 30 Valentine’s Day crafts for kids, activity ideas, baking projects and favorite books for celebrating love & friendship.
Updated January 2022
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.
We 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 we 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’s Day 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) Melted crayon heart paintings
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?
26) Bake heart-shaped cherry hand pies
27) Make cranberry oatmeal heart cookies
28) Make heart-shaped candy cane lollipops
29) Make peanut butter cups in heart molds
Read Valentine Books for Kids
31) 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
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How about you? What are your favorite Valentine crafts and activities for kids?
MORE Valentine’s Day Craft Ideas
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- How to Make Coffee Filter Heart Crafts for Valentine’s Day
- How to Make a Valentine’s Day Mailbox
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