Valentine’s Day is the perfect occasion for kids to unleash their creativity using everyday supplies found around the house! With items like paper, crayons, markers, scissors, and glue, kids can craft heartfelt cards, cut out paper hearts, or create love-themed garlands. Recyclable materials like cereal boxes can be transformed into decorative card holders, and old magazines are great for making colorful collages. Add a personal touch by using buttons, string, or fabric scraps for unique embellishments. These simple yet delightful crafts are not only budget-friendly but also a wonderful way for kids to express their love and appreciation for family and friends.

Baby And Toddler Crafts:

1. Handprint or Footprint Art

• Create heart-shaped art using your child’s handprints or footprints. Use washable, non-toxic paints to press their hands or feet onto paper. Add cute phrases like “You have my heart” for an adorable keepsake.

2. Heart Stamping

• Use a toilet paper roll bent into a heart shape to create a simple stamp. Toddlers can dip it into red or pink paint and stamp hearts on paper.

3. Valentine’s Day Sensory Bin

• Fill a bin with red, pink, and white items like pom-poms, heart-shaped cutouts, or plastic Valentine’s trinkets. Let toddlers explore textures and practice sorting.

4. Paper Plate Love Bugs

• Use a paper plate as a base and let toddlers decorate it with googly eyes, pipe cleaners, and heart cutouts to create a cute “love bug.”

5. Heart Garland

• Toddlers can help glue or tape pre-cut paper hearts onto a string to make a garland for decoration. Use soft colors like pink and lavender for a festive vibe.

6. Valentine Collage

• Provide toddlers with heart stickers, tissue paper, and cut-out shapes to glue onto a large piece of paper, encouraging creativity.

7. Finger Painting Cards

• Let toddlers finger-paint on cardstock, then cut out heart shapes once the paint dries to create unique Valentine’s Day cards.

Kids

1. Paper Heart Wreath

• Cut out hearts from construction paper or old magazines in various sizes. Glue them together in a circular pattern to create a festive wreath for doors or windows.

2. DIY Valentine’s Day Cards

• Provide kids with blank paper or cardstock, markers, crayons, and stickers. Let them design personalized cards for friends and family with creative drawings and sweet messages.

3. Heart-Shaped Animal Crafts

• Use heart cutouts to create animals like owls, foxes, or butterflies. For example, a large heart can be the body, and smaller ones can form wings, ears, or feet.

4. Love Bug Clothespins

• Paint wooden clothespins and decorate them with googly eyes, pipe cleaners for antennae, and paper hearts to make “love bugs.”

5. Popsicle Stick Frames

• Glue popsicle sticks into a square frame and decorate with glitter, stickers, and hearts. Add a photo or drawing in the center for a sweet Valentine keepsake.

6. Tissue Paper Hearts

• Cut a large heart shape from cardboard or cardstock. Kids can glue small pieces of red, pink, and white tissue paper to cover the surface for a textured decoration.

7. Valentine’s Day Bookmarks

• Create heart-themed bookmarks using cardstock. Decorate with drawings, stickers, or stamps, and punch a hole at the top to add a ribbon.

8. Heart Stamps

• Carve a heart shape into a potato or bend a toilet paper roll into a heart shape. Dip it in paint to make heart-shaped stamps on paper or fabric.

9. Candy-Free Valentine’s Treat Bags

• Decorate paper lunch bags with hearts, stickers, and markers to create cute Valentine treat bags. Fill with small toys, pencils, or erasers.

10. Button Heart Art

• Use an old frame or sturdy paper as a base. Kids can arrange and glue buttons in a heart shape for a creative and colorful display.