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Valentine’s Day Kid Crafts Activities and Recipes

We have been making heart crafts and decided to gather Valentine’s Day kid crafts, activities, and recipes for Valentine’s Day fun.

There are all different kinds of Valentine’s Day kid crafts, cards, recipes, and activities to keep your kids crafting for weeks. Most need just a few supplies, mainly paper.

Pair with some Valentine’s Day math, science or books for some learning with crafting.

More Valentine’s Day and Heart Crafts for Kids

Valentine’s Day Kid Crafts

Printable Heart Garland Craft

Print out the free PDF colored or decorate it yourself. This is an easy Valentine’s Day Craft.

Easy Painted Heart Coaster Craft 

Make come colorful heart coasters for a Valentine’s Day gift or Mother’s Day.

100 Free Valentine’s Day Coloring Pages Printable

Valentine's day coloring pages

Print out some of these free heart templates and Valentine’s Day coloring pages for quick and easy activities.

Valentine Heart Unicorn Craft

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Make an adorable paper heart unicorn craft. This would be a perfect craft for all the unicorn lovers.

Love Bugs Craft

fun love bug craft for Valentine's Day
www.sunshinewhispers.com

Make a cute love bug craft with craft sticks and paper. This would be an easy Valentine’s Day craft, great for preschoolers.


Popsicle Stick Valentine Frame Craft for Kids

www.onecrazyride.com

Make a cute love picture frame out of craft sticks that Nana would love for Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day. All you need to add is a special picture to go in it.

Heart Bouquet Craft

www.artycraftykids.com

Make a flower bouquet out of construction and tissue paper. This would make a cute gift for Mother’s Day too.


Handprint Heart Tree Valentine’s Day Craft

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Make a 3D paper heart tree craft.


Valentine’s Day Headbands

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Have fun make a paper hat with hearts.

Pasta Hearts

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A fun and easy craft using noodle, markers, and pipe cleaners. This heart craft is great for practicing fine motor skills and counting.


SHAVING CREAM HEART ART

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Have fun with shaving cream and paint these hearts.


Valentine Suncatchers

www.paper-and-glue.com

Make pretty heart garlands with paper doilies.

Painted Newspaper Puffy Heart 

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Recycle some newspaper into a stuffed heart.


BUTTERFLY VALENTINE’S DAY MAILBOX

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Make a cute love bug as a mailbox for valentines.

Lacing Heart Craft

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Practice lacing with yarn and cardboard.


Cute Hedgehog Valentine’s Day Craft for Kids

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Make a cute hedgehog craft using paper. This blog has lots of cute crafts for kids to make.


Heart Butterfly 

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Make a love bug butterfly out of paper hearts


HEART SLIME

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Make a heart slime, use little hearts and glitter.

Card Kid Crafts

Cactus Card

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Make cute cactus cards using paper.

Handprint Card

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Who doesn’t love a handprint craft. Make hands into a cute card.

Piece of My Heart Card

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Make a cute heart with a puzzle piece card.

Folded Heart Card

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Use folded hearts to make a pretty card using paper.

Love Bug Card

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Paper hearts made into a love bug card.

Cat Purrfect Card

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A cute craft, turning a heart into a cat.

Ladybug Love Card

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Make a cute heart ladybug Valentine’s Day card with a little paper.

Bee Mine Card Craft

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Make a cute bee mine Valentine’s Day card using paper.

Hot Air Balloon Card

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A cute heart card made into an air balloon.

Dino Paper Plate Card

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This card is perfect for your dino lover.

Pig Card

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This is a fun craft that toddler could do, using handprints

Paper Rose Card

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Roll paper into hearts to make a pretty card. It would be great for Mother’s Day card.

Printable Heart Card Craft

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Print out this free card printable and paint and decorate it. Then give it to your valentine.

Fun Heart Kid Crafts

Handprint Heart Tree

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A cute tree hand print with hearts, a great paper craft.

Spin Painting Heart

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Have you tried spin art? It looks fun and has pretty results.

Quilled Heart Frame

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Make a pretty frame to give Nana as a keepsake. This craft would be for older children with patience.

Cardboard Heart

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Reuse some cardboard, and make some cute hearts.

Wax Resist Heart

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Have fun trying a wax resist with watercolors. Would work for lots of different shapes. You could practice, letter, number, and names too.

Tin Foil Heart

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Open up the kitchen draw and pull out some tin foil for this craft. You could use this for lots of themes I am thinking of making Easter eggs using this technique.

Paper Plate Weaving Heart

www.redtedart.com

Practice some fine motor skills and a craft with this weaving project.

Handprint Heart

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Thumbprint Heart Painting

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Make a heart using dots.

Rainbow Heart

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Make a suncatcher heart using tissue paper. A great Valentine’s Day craft.

Heart Peacock Craft

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Make a cute heart peacock paper craft for Valentine’s Day activity. You could turn it into a card.

Heart Garland

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Make a paper heart garland to decorate for Valentine’s Day.

Yarn Wrapped Heart

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Wrap yarn around a cardboard heart.

Finger painted Heart Tree

JEWELLED HEART SUNCATCHERS

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Use plastic jewels to make these colorful suncatchers

Cotton Ball Heart Painting

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Use a cut out of a heart and paint around it with a cotton ball to make this heart painting. You could add I love your or another saying in the center.

Heart Pipe Cleaner Printmaking

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Make a print using a pipe cleaner.

Fingerprint Heart Keyring

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Make a keepsake heart key ring using fingerprints and clay.

Fizzing Heart Art

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Try fizzing painting to make these hearts. This is a fun mix of science and art.

Heart Candy

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Heart Buddies

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Heart Dino

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Easy Valentine Recipes

  1. Chocolate Covered Pretzels – Love From the Oven
easy valentine's day treat pop

2. Valentine Treat Pops – Pint Sized Treasures

Valentine's Day Bark

3. Valentine Bark – Sparkles to Sprinkles

Wafer Valentine's Day Cookies

4. Valentine Wafer Cookies – Craft-o-maniac

Marshmallow Valentine's Day Treats

5. Valentine Marshmallow Pops – Two Sister Crafting

Chocolate dipped strawberry pops

6. Valentine Strawberry Pops – A  Spicy Perspective

Valentine's Day popcorn treat

7. Cupid’s Crunch Valentine Popcorn – This Mama Loves

Chocolate heart preztels

8. Chocolate Heart Pretzels – The Paper Pinata

Valentine's Day Oreo Pops

9.Valentine’s Day Oreo Pops – Happiness is Homemade

heart cookie
Valentine Heart Chocolate Cookie

10. Chocolate Chip Peanut butter Heart Cookies

Make these easy cookies by putting peanut butter chocolate heart on chocolate chip cookies when they come out of the oven.

Valentines Day Chocolate Popcorn

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More Valentine’s Day and Heart Crafts for Kids

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