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Valentine’s Day is a great day for celebrations, school parties, cupcakes, candy hearts,  and cookies and Kids Craft Ideas!

Most ALL kids will love to make crafts!  Valentine’s Day is a special opportunity for them to use their creativity to make craft things for others who will appreciate them.  Relatives and friends, alike, often keep these precious memories stored away for years.  Click Here for Ideas on How to:    Make A DIY Children’s Gift Basket

One other benefit of Valentine’s Day is that the focus is on expressing love and appreciation instead of gifts so it is seen in general,  as a more light-hearted holiday.

Remember to keep your crafts age appropriate and if you are creating in a classroom situation make sure that you have at least one older child or adult for every three children under the age of seven.  This will keep things moving smoothly and decrease any frustration that a child might have.

Valentine Day Kids Craft Ideas Tips:

• Use washable paints, glue, and markers.
• Have the children bring an old button up shirt of mom’s or dad’s to use as a smock to keep clothing clean.  Write their name on the collar or make a special name badge for the front.
• Use the tops of baby food jars to hold glue if not using glue sticks.
• Plan projects around a child’s attention span – Children under three will last about five minutes total.  For ages three-six you can plan for about ten minutes.
• Stickers are better to decorate cards than cutting out pictures and gluing them on at these age groups.
• Let the kids do it their way. The receiver won’t care if it doesn’t look like the picture on the box and neither should you, so make creativity a priority instead of perfection.
• Have your preparation already planned so children get right to work, and stay busy versus waiting for you to put everything out for them.

Valentine Day Kids Craft Ideas:

1 – Paper Conversation Heart Wreath

Best for ages 7 and up

Make a door wreath from construction heart cutouts and add your own quotes and sayings.

Materials:

• Construction paper in conversation heart colors like pink, purple, blue, and mint green.
• Dinner plate
• Cereal box or poster board
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Markers
• Glue sticks

Instructions:

Having an adult complete the first steps ahead of time can save time and frustration for a child.

• Trace around the plate onto the posterboard.
• Draw another circle inside the first circle, about an inch away from the first one.
• Cut out the circle and then cut out the center to make a wreath shape.
• Cut the construction paper into squares and fold in half.
• Draw half a heart against the fold of the paper and cut out.
• Open it up for a perfect heart shape.
• Flatten the hearts and write messages on them with markers.
• Arrange the hearts on top of the cardboard wreath until you have them the way you want them. Glue them in place and let dry.
• Attach a loop of string or wire to the back for hanging.

Possible Sayings:

• Be Mine
• Love-I Love You-Love U-Love you
• Call Me
• U R Sweet
• Kiss
• Hug Me
• Always-Yours Always-Always Love

Need more saying ideas – Grab an actual bag or box of conversation heart candy for inspiration.

2 – Valentine’s Day Card Mailbox:

Use an empty Kleenex box to create  a mailbox for each child’s Valentine’s Day cards.

Materials:

• Spray Paint or finger paint
• Empty Kleenex box per child
• Glue
• Construction paper
• Markers
• Stickers
• Glitter
• Other embellishments

Instructions:

1. Before craft time spray paint the boxes.  Red, pink, or white glossy spray paint are the most popular Valentine Day color choices.
2. Cut one heart per box out of coordinating construction paper.
3. Write the child’s name on the heart and glue it to the box.
4. Use the stickers and other embellishments to create their unique Valentine’s Day card mailbox.

3 – Hugs and Kisses Jar

These hugs and kisses can be sent anywhere and used anytime.

Materials:

• Pint Mason jar with screw on lid
• Hershey’s Hugs
• Hershey’s Kisses
• Paper for a tag
• Raffia or curling ribbon

Instructions:

1. Fill the jar with a mixture of hugs and kisses. You can even add some colored sugar crystals for sparkle.
2. Screw the lid on the jar.
3. Write something clever like; “Hugs and Kisses 4 U,” on the tag and attach it to the jar with raffia or curling ribbon.

When it comes to kids, the main thing is to remember that these times won’t last long before you are pining away and waiting for them to fit YOU into their schedule, so just enjoy yourselves.

And if you are still stumped for ideas – Look here at these Valentine’s Day instructional ideas for Kids – It’s a real hit with School age children!

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