Kids’ Valentines Day Ideas

As you may have guessed by now we LOVE Valentine’s Day Resources.. we love all the reds, oranges and pinks and the lovely heart motifs… what is not to LOVE about Valetine’s Day Crafts for kids.

If working with younger kids, you may want to also check out our Valentine’s Crafts for Preschoolers!

The thing about Kids’ Valentines Day Ideas, is that although we made these love crafts for Valentine’s, you can actually make them for so many other oaccassions too – e.g. Mother’s Day Gift ideas, or friendship gift ideas at the beginning or end of Summer holidays or Summer camps.

Afterall.. you can use any occassion to tell some one you love them or care about them, not just Valentine’s Day.  So though this collection of Kids Valentine’s Day Idea ostentatiously are for Valentine’s Day, do also keep them in mind for Birthday’s, Friends and other gifting days.

This is just a HIGHLIGHT of our favourite Kids’ Valentines Day Crafts. As many of you will be aware we run an annual 31 Days of Love guest post series in January, so we literally have 100s of amazing crafts for you  to check out and browse. I have tried to group them into a many themes as possible for easy browsing!!! The most popular are:

• 101 Heart Crafts
• Kids Valentine’s Day Cards
• Valentine’s Day Decorations
• and Valentine’s Science Ideas

I also tried to group today’s Kids Valentine’s Day Crafts round up into sections for easy browsing!! I hope you like it.. feedback always welcomed.

Valentines Salt Dough DIY Ideas for Kids

We love Salt Dough Crafts and Valentine’s Day is yer another great opportunity to get this basic kids craft ready. Here are some sweet Salt Dough Kids Valentines Crafts for you:

    

Saltdough Fridge Magnets – these Heart fridge magnets are super easy and oh so cute to make

Saltdough Button Heart Ornaments or necklace – we love these salt dough hearts – they make perfect little Valentine’s Ornaments or give them as necklace gifts to friends

Easy Conversation Hearts Necklace – adorable BFF gift!

   

Salt dough footprint heart – these make precious keepsakes for sure!

Salt Dough Thumbprint hearts -love the “Thumbody loves you” pun

Microwavable Salt Dough LOVE necklace

Some little Valentines Heart Sewing Projects

How about practicing your sewing skills this Valentine’s. Here are some easy Kids Valentine’s Day Sewing projects. We love working with felt – it is easy to push the needle through and no matter how neat or “not so neat” your sewing, we think the results are adorable. Three different felt heart sewing projects for kids to make!

  

Kawaii Felt Heart Mobile – this such an adorable Valentine’s Day Decoration (you will want to keep this up all year round)

Cute Heart Brooch – these are great BFF gifts that the kids can make.

Felt Heart Keychains – we have used these as keychains, as well as Christmas Ornaments… a great example how a Valentine’s Day Craft can be used all year around!

Surprise your friends with some fuzzy Monster Backpack Charms this Valentine’s (heart shaped of course!!)

Adorable Sewing Machine Heart for kids to sew!

Cutest Heart Softie Pattern!

Layered Felt Heart

Valentine’s Bookmark Ideas

We couldn’t have a kids crafts “round up”, with out some of our favourite Corner Bookmarks, right? And as always.. we have some fabulous Valentine’s Day Bookmarks for you here!!!

   

Love Bug Corner Bookmarks – so easy so cute! The kids will love them

Showering you with Love Bookmarks – based on Pink Stripey Sock’s Paper Plate guest post – another adorable little make

Finally, a Kirigami Heart Bookmark Corner – again easy and quick

  

Printable Heart Bookmark (Print, Colour and Make)

What a Hoot – Valentine’s Owl Corner Bookmarks

Some adorable Yarn Valentine’s Decorations & Crafts

Next up we have some fun wool or YARN related Valentine’s Day Decorations!! I bit of knitting, pom poms and weaving…

  

Have a go at Finger Knitting and make these lovely little finger knitting heart ornaments

Or have a go at these fantastic Paper Plate Woven Hearts. Aren’t they gorgeous?

Finally, make some Valentine’s Day Wall Decorations with this great Pom Pom Hearts How to!

  

Yarn Wrapped Heart Bookmarks – darling!

Learn the basics of Needle Felting with this how to make a needle felted heart bookmark

More fun with Needle Felting with these Needle Felted Heart Decorations.

More Kids Valentine’s Day Decorations

  

3D Paper Heart – we love the bright colours of these 3d Paper Hearts (complete with printable)

A fun interpretation of Valentine’s Day Decoration with this “naughts and crosses” garland

Make these Twiggy Heart Decoration – also would make a lovely gift idea

   

Beautiful White Clay Heart Bunting

Or have a go at these paper strip hearts

Heart shaped wings

  

Bobbing Flower Bouquet

Adorable 3D Arty Hearts – with beads and buttons

Quirky and different make some “Love is in the Air” Cardboard Planes (incl. Printable)

 

Fantastic Heart Bulletin Board

3D Paper Fan Hearts

Pet’s Valentine’s Day Treats (includes Printable)

  

Super cute and easy Rocket Wall Hangings

Easy 3d Paper Penguins for Valentines

Recycled Love Bugs

Recycled Tinsel Heart Decorations

Our favourite Valentine’s Cards for Kids

As mentioned we have a WHOLE post dedicated to Kids Valentine’s Day Cards, so many great and different ideas for kids to make of all ages. So in this section we have just picked out some of our favourites. It really was a VERY hard choice to make.. but hopefully you will like this Valentines Card selection and will hop over for yet more ideas! This really is but a small selection…

   

Paper Snowflake Hearts – love how these fold up and pop into an envelope.. then open up as a fabulous card/ wall decoration

Paper Quilled Hearts – a fabulous introduction into the art of paper quilling with stunning results

Who doesn’t love a squishy card?! Learn how to make Squishy Heart Cards easily

   

Or maybe your kids are into emojis.. another great quilling project for Valentine’s

If you want something a little different, make some PURRRFECT Pop Up Cat cards

Finally, get arty with these Winter Valentines Cards

  

Printable Printable Heart Notebook would make a great Valentine’s Day Card too!

Heart Bouquet Cards – love how these open up into heart shape cards. Adorable.

Make friendship rocks instead of cards: Our Friendship Rocks!

  

Surprisingly easy POP UP Heart Valentine’s Card

Adorable Mini Vase Cards for real flowers

Printable Heart Glasses (perfect for Photo Shoots and Card Making)

Easy Pop Up Bear and Pop Up Cat Card – you are Purrrrfect! I love you Whaley Much

BFF Conversation Heart Buddies (with free printable)

How gorgeous are these Pour Painted Rocks? Pour Painting is a super fun technique that kids will love.

Or why not give Paint Pen Heart Rocks a go?

Arty Valentine’s Day Decorations

Next up, we have a great set of Art Projects for Kids – you can make them simply as Valentine’s Process Art for kids or as Valentine’s Day Decorations. Decorate your walls, windows, notebooks.. or turn them into greeting cards… lots of different art projects for Valentines. Again, this is just a small selection, with many more to be found in our Kids Valentine’s Day Art Projects round up!

   

Crayon Shaving Window Catchers

Puffy Paint Hearts – and easy and great Puffy Paint Recipe – that would look great as Cards or Garlands or simple wall decorations

Giant Conversation Heart DIY Art Project

   

Pinata Hearts – fun Pinata Hearts – great for a Valentine’s Day Party or decoration

Process Art Heart Wall Hanging – wonderful process art decorations

Arty recycled fun with this Love Struck Lion Craft – TP Roll Lion – so cute!

  

Gorgeous Black Glue Art project – comes complete with printables over on this Black Glue Heart Art  project post!

Adorable Egg Carton Flower Bouquet

Easy Painted Paper Flowers

A printable game, taht you can use as a decoration or Valentine’s Day Card – Stained Glass Valentines Printable!

Fabulous Chalk Pastel Hearts Art project – a step by step guide to using chalk pastels!

Kids Valentines Day Gift Ideas

Many of the crafts shared on this page already make suitable Valentine’s Day Gift ideas.. here are som eadditional Kids’ Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas.. some would be perfect to give to a parent others to friends…

   

Quick Heart Pipecleaners – these make super quick classroom gifts. Why not add some beads?

Conversation Heart Cookies – these Conversation heart cookies look AMAZING! I want some today.

Heart Tea Lights – awww so cute – you “light up” my life! How adorable.

   

Valentine’s Day Bracelets – these cute little penguin bracelets would be super fun to make and receive

Heart Shaped Bath Bombs – bath bombs are a great gift to make and give and cross the line between Crafts, Gifts and SCIENCE! Love

Recycled Heart Crayons are easy to make and fun to give. They can also be combine with Greeting Cards. So cute!

  

And why not print out our free Heart Gift Box pattern?! Then decorate your heart’s content (get it?)

Make these gorgeous and easy Cardboard Heart Necklace perfect for BFFs

Easy Pom Pom Hearts to Wear

 

Fun with Heart Fidget Toys

Moasic Heart Pins to make for friends. These polymer clay brooches make a lovely accesory to wear or pin to your backpack. You can also make them as fridget magnets.

Rather adorable Perler Bead Picture Frame! These make super duper cute gifts for a friend or a family member. My kids will be all over these!

Valentine’s Day Keychains

The Pinch Pot Hearts are easy to make and great to make all year round.. but especially lovely as Valetine’s Day Craft for Kids, or a Mother’s Day Craft!

Kids Valentine’s Day STEAM ideas

We love science and a great Valentine’s Day Science Ideas – here are some of our favourite..

   

Fizzy Heart Science – what makes these hearts fizz?

Ice Colour Theory – super simple, explore colour theory with these melting heart ice cubes

Optical Illusion Snowglobe Love Bear  – watch the love bear magically appear in the snowglobe

Balancing Hearts Science Activity (includes free printable)

Fun with Salt Heart Decorations!

If you are looking to work with a younger age groups, we have more great Valentines Crafts for Toddlers here: