Easy Crafts for Kids to Make for Valentine's Day

Create easy Valentine crafts with your children.

Celebrate Valentine's Day with your children by helping them make easy crafts using glitter, glue and paint. With your creativity and imagination, you and your children can work together to make easy Valentine's crafts. A quick trip to your local craft store is all you need to get started making memorable crafts with your children.

Conversation Heart Wreath

Help your child cut several hearts out of pastel-colored construction paper. Cut the outside ring off a paper plate. Tell your child to use markers and crayons to write things like, "Be Mine," "I Love You" and "You Make Me Smile," on the hearts. Help her tape or glue the hearts to the paper ring. Tie a piece of Valentine-themed ribbon around the ring to hang it up.

Heart Magnets

Heat 1/3 cup of water with 1 cup of salt over medium heat in a saucepan for about four minutes. Remove from heat. Add 1/4 cup of cold water and 1/2 cup cornstarch while stirring. The mix should thicken. When it cools, begin kneading the dough. If the mix is sticky, add some cornstarch. Use a rolling pin to flatten the dough to about 1/2-inch thick. Take a heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut several hearts out of the dough. After the dough hardens (about two days), help your child paint the hearts with pink and red acrylic paint. Use a hot glue gun to glue a magnet on the back of each heart.

Valentine Photo Frame

Purchase a bag of conversation hearts and a wooden picture frame. Help your child glue the hearts on the frame using wood craft glue. Place the hearts close together, so you cannot see much of the wooden frame. Spray the hearts with a gloss spray to make them shiny and durable.

Mouse Kiss

Cut a heart out of pink or red craft foam for each project. Glue two chocolate kisses on each side of the heart. The bottoms of the chocolate kisses should be facing toward each other with the heart in the middle. Glue small whiskers and a miniature black pompom on the point of one of the chocolate kiss to resemble the nose of the mouse. Glue googly eyes above the whiskers and nose. Do not allow the children to eat this, in case the glue seeped through the tin foil and onto the chocolate.

References

• Kaboose: Valentine Crafts
• AC Place: Easy Valentine's Day Kid Crafts
• Activity Village: Easy Valentines Crafts