Valentine’s Day crafts for kids
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Valentine’s Day is a fun holiday to do crafts with your kids. I’ve found that any kid-made art is always a hit with the grandparents! Not mention for sappy, nostalgic mommas like myself, they become major treasures.
A couple of years ago I helped my boys make roses to send to their grandparents. To make these just have your little ones make a fist and dip the side of it (thumb up, pinky down) in paint and stamp it on construction paper. We used white paint on red construction paper and I let my oldest use pattern scissors to cut around them after they dried. You can also use red paint on white paper & not cut them out. It’s completely up to you. Then let them add stems, leaves, and a message to finish it off.
This year I had the boys use their hands to make hearts. You can use paint or a big stamp pad, just make sure their hands are covered well, fingers are together as they press down on the paper. It works best if you do one hand at a time to be sure the angles are just right to make a heart. You can add a message or Scripture to trace around the heart if you’d like. I saw one similar to ours on Pinterest with the “hands heart” and an upside down foot print with the message, “I love you with all my heart right down to the tips of my toes!” Now tell me that doesn’t just pull at your momma-strings!
One of the easiest things that’s also fun for kids is to use cookie cutters. Find various sizes of hearts & let your kids dip them in red and pink paint to stamp on paper to make a heart collage. You can also use them as tracers for drawing or let your kids use them with their Play-Doh. Personally, our favorite use of cookie cutters is to make cookies with them! Then you can help your kids decorate them with icing and lots of cute Valentine sprinkles. For a cheap and cute personal goody for friends, put a couple in cellophane bags you can get at the Dollar Tree and voila! I also let the boys unroll cinnamon rolls to make them into hearts. It was super easy, not messy, and completely yummy to eat!
If your child has to decorate a box or bag for a Valentine party, let them have fun with it. You can find Styrofoam hearts almost anywhere this time year, glitter, stickers, heart doilies, glue, markers, and let your kid use their imagination to decorate. For 3-D cuteness, let them glue conversation hearts on there too.
Last year, when my oldest was in Kindergarten, we reviewed the letters H and V around Valentine’s Day and made some cute letter art! I drew different kinds of flowers on paper and the let the boys color them however they wanted and cut them out along with stems and leaves to make a vase out of the letter V. H of course was for hearts that I let them decorate with. Those hearts can go a long way when it comes to Valentine arts and crafts! You can use your own creativity or hit up Pinterest for unending ideas! Just have fun with your kids and take lots of pictures along the way!
I hope you & your family have a Happy Valentine’s Day!
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