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Valentine’s Day Craft Ideas for Kids

by Karen on February 12th, 2007

Valentine’s Day is just two days away and I feel like I have failed you.  I am normally good at giving ideas for holidays (or at least I think I am ;) ) and I am behind on getting ideas to you for Valentine’s Day.  Honestly, I have to blame this crazy cold for part of it.  Thankfully, I am starting to feel better today.  I haven’t had any medicine yet.

Last week at school the students made Valentine cards.  I let them add hearts to the cards with my foam stampers and some hearts cut from construction paper.  I used their hands to make a heart.  To make the heart I put paint on each of their hands and pressed their hands (fingers down), overlapping the thumbs.  Handprint art is always a hit.  They also used heart stickers to decorate the cards. 

Last week they also made Valentine bags with white lunch bags.  They used markers and hearts that I had cut from construction paper to decorate their bags.  I hung them on the bulletin board so that they could get Valentines in their bags throughout the week.

This week we are going to make heart collages.  I used the die cut machine (love that thing!) to make hearts of various shapes, sizes, and colors.  We are also going to marble paint hearts.  To do this I am using hearts that I have cut from large paper.  I am dipping marbles into different colors of paint.  I will put the large heart paper in a box top (a copy paper box top works well) and then add the marbles on top of the paper.  The students will turn the box top all different ways to make marble designs on their heart.  Maybe I can take some pictures and post them later.

Here are some other sites for kid’s Valentine ideas.

Kids Domain - make chocolate candy hearts, heart bracelets, heart pins & magnets, candy pots, and more.  We will definitely play a game of Heart Bingo this week at school!

Family Fun - finger puppets, coupons, stained glass hearts, love bugs, and more.

DLTK’s Growing Together - wreaths, valentine boxes, animal crafts, and educational crafts.

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