Do-It-Yourself Valentine Crafts for Kids
Keep your group of kids occupied on Valentine's Day whether they're at home, at school or attending a party with friends by having them make crafts. When possible, choose simple projects that only require basic craft supplies that most homes and classrooms already have on hand. Kids can display their crafts as decorations or give them as gifts to family and friends.
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Tissue Paper Flowers
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Flowers are one of the most traditional Valentine's Day gifts, along with chocolate. Reduce the expense of a fresh-picked bouquet and give kids something to work on by having them make their own flowers out of tissue or crepe paper. Make basic flowers by folding a stack of tissue paper with an accordion fold, wrapping a chenille stem around the paper's middle and pulling the paper layers apart to form a flower shape. Older kids can cut petal shapes from the paper and glue the bottom of each petal around a chenille stem to make a rose.
Recycled Butterfly
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Use an empty toilet paper tube as the body for a Valentine's Day butterfly craft. Paint the tube or color it with markers to make the butterfly's body. Cut two large hearts from card stock or craft foam, and tape the bottom points to the back of the tube to serve as the butterfly's wings. Decorate the wings by coloring them or gluing small hearts or polka dots onto them. Draw a face onto the butterfly and tape antennae made from chenille stems just inside the top of the tube.
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Puzzling Heart
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Use pieces from an unwanted jigsaw puzzle to make hearts to give to friends and loved ones. Paint the puzzle pieces red and pink with spray paint or a brush. After the pieces are dry, glue them into a heart shape. The heart can be just an outline or a solid shape. Glue a pin backing or a magnet to the back of the heart so that it can be worn or displayed.
Heart Crown
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Kids can make crowns embellished with hearts so that they can play the roles of the king or queen of hearts. Use a basic paper plate as the crown's base. Cut four straight lines through the center of the plate to make an asterisk shape, but leave the outer rim of the plate intact. Turn the plate upside-down and fold the center sections of the plate upward to make the points of the crown. Kids can decorate the crown with paint or markers. They can also cut out heart shapes and glue one to the top of each point on the crown.
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