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Easy Valentine Day Crafts For Kids

December 19, 2022 By: Sweet Frugal Lifecomment

Check out these easy Valentine crafts!

Valentines day is such a fun time of year.  I love showing my loved ones how much I care about them.  And it’s even more fun to teach my kids to show love to others!  These easy Valentine day crafts for kids are the perfect activities for a fun February day.

Consider helping your kids make a few crafts to give to their friends and family.  Or they can make some to help decorate the house with a little bit of festivity.  Whichever you choose, make sure to enjoy this fun time together making easy Valentines crafts!

Fun Valentine Day Craft Ideas

Have fun making these easy Valentine Day crafts!  Let me know which one is your favorite!

1.  Clay Valentine Magnets

Check out these adorable Clay Valentine Magnets!  You only need three ingredients and some paint to make them!  They are the perfect craft for kids both young and old.  I can’t wait to make some and hang them on our fridge.

3 Ingredient Clay Valentine Magnets

2.  Panda Valentine Craft

This Panda Valentine craft is not only the cutest thing ever, but it also comes with a free template!  Which for someone like me (non-expert crafter), a template is a must!  Your kids will have so much fun making this craft to give away or keep for themselves, and they will be able to work on their fine motor skills at the same time!

two panda valentine crafts

3.  Conversation Heart Bookmarks

I’m in love with this next easy Valentine day craft!  These conversation heart corner bookmarks are so fun and make a great gift for book lovers!  All it takes is a little bit of folding and glue and you have the cutest bookmark ever!  This is a craft that anyone can do!

Conversation Heart Bookmarks

4.  Valentines Foam Pencil Toppers

Here’s another fun craft for Valentines, Foam Pencil Toppers.  This tutorial comes with a template to help your kids make a hedgehog, owl, penguin and racoon pencil toppers.  The instructions are easy to follow and the results are absolutely darling!

Valentines Foam Pencil Toppers | Homan at Home

 

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5.  Valentine Yarn Hearts

My kids love making these easy valentine yarn hearts each year.  They are quick, cheap and so cute!  All you need is some cardboard (thank you leftover Amazon box!) and some yarn.  The colors are so fun to customize and mix and match.  They make cute decorations and gifts.

6.  Heart Paint Chip Garland

If you want simple and cheap Valentine decor, I have the thing for you!  You can quickly make this Heart Paint Chip Garland.  It’s very easy to customize and make with your favorite love-day colors.

My kids love having a few holiday decorations in their rooms, and this would be the perfect craft for them to make and hang over their bead.

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7.  Heart Suncatcher

I love hanging crafted suncatchers in my windows.  The light that comes through is so pretty.

Your kids will love making their own heart suncatcher following this tutorial.

Hand holding finished heart suncatcher up to window

 

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8.  Valentines Day Toilet Paper Roll Vase

Crafts that repurpose are just my favorite type of crafts!  They are frugal through and through!

That is one of the reasons why I love this Valentines Day Toilet Paper Roll Vase craft.  It turns something that would have been tossed into the trash, a toilet paper roll, into something beautiful and useful.  Your kids will love making these vases and placing pretty flowers inside!

Valentine’s Day Toilet Paper Roll Flower Vase

 

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9.  Valentines Pom Pom Painting

Here’s the perfect Valentines day craft for toddlers and preschoolers, Valentines Day Pom Pom painting.  The activity introduces a new way to paint, using pom poms and a clothespin!  This method results in a fun, easy to create heart art!

Two finished Pom Pom Heart Paintings on white background

10.  DIY Valentine Felt Heart

If you are looking for an easy Valentines Day craft for older kids, try this DIY Valentine Felt Heart! 

Felt is very budget friendly, making this craft a perfect option for the frugal conscious.  The hearts are perfect for giving to others or to use as a decoration around your home.

DIY Felt Valentine Hearts | Mommy Evolution

11.  Love Bug Toilet Paper Roll Craft

Your kids will love making this adorable love bug….and again…I love that it’s repurposing something that would have been thrown away!  This is a very easy and cute project, perfect for young kids!

pink love bug made using toilet paper roll

12.  Origami Heart

Folding origami is so fun, and with the right instructions can be very simple.  Here is a great tutorial for folding an easy origami heart that make great corner bookmarks!  Make your corner bookmarks in a variety of colors to giveaway and use in all of your favorite books.

Valentine paper heart origami bookmark craft

13.  Valentines Day Frame

Alright, I have the perfect craft for any non crafters out there!  Seriously, anyone can make this Valentines Day frame craft….and it’s the cutest thing ever!  So, basically a win-win all around!

I love the idea of using this frame as a decoration, you can put a picture of your family inside of it.  Or, it can be a great gift with a picture of you and your loved one together.

DIY Valentine's Day Frame

 

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14.  Gnome Paper Craft

Another fun valentine paper craft is to make this darling gnome.  It comes with a free template, for easy cutting and designing and it is just so cute!  I want to make one just for me!

15.  Love You To Pieces Wreath

I’m so in love with this fun puzzle piece wreath!  It’s so creative and simple to make!

This adorable DIY Valentine Wreath is an easy and thrifty Valentine's Day craft to make with kids. All you need is a dollar store puzzle, a recycled cardboard box, and simple art supplies! 

 

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16.  DIY Heart Crayons

My kids use to make these heart crayons all the time.  It’s a great way to use up half used crayons, and create something new and fun.  The silicone molds come in a lot of different shapes and designs too!

4 mutli-colored new heart crayons made from crayons melting in oven in silicone heart molds.

17.  Tissue Paper Heart Craft

Crafting with tissue paper is always affordable and kid friendly.  The tissue paper heart craft is perfect for helping young ones work on their fine motor skills while creating something new.

textured heart with tissue paper and supplies around it.

18.  Popsicle Stick Heart Garland

This popsicle stick heart garland is so cute and unique!  It’s something that I haven’t ever seen before, and that just makes me love it even more!  I love trying new projects like this with my kids.

valentines day garland craft

19.  Mess Free Smush Painting

Want to craft with your kids, but hate the mess??  Try the mesh free smush painting method! 

All of the painting is done within a contained plastic bag!  This is especially a great craft idea for toddlers!

image shows painted heart art

20.  Love Code Bracelet

How cute is this love code bracelet?!  I think it’s the perfect craft for kids who love coding….but also need a break from a screen!

Valentines Day Coding Activity LOVE

21.  Crystal Hearts Science Experiment

There just isn’t much better than turning a craft into a science experiment!  It will get your kids fingers and creativity working, all while helping them learn! 

The Crystal Hearts Science Experiment is the perfect Valentine craft turned experiment to do with your kids this year!

still wet crystal hearts drying on a paper towel after forming in jars

22.  Valentine Hugs

I use to make these Valentine Hug crafts all the time when I was young, and they always made me so happy!  It’s a very easy craft to make, and this tutorial even provides a free template you can use!  I love free templates!

valentine hugs man with accordion arms

23.  Pom Pom Love Bug Craft

Here’s another super cute and easy Valentines day craft idea that kids can do, make a Pom Pom Love Bug!  It will only take a few minutes to whip up a few of these darling bugs, and they are super easy to customize just the way your child wants them!

Valentines day love bug

 

Have Fun With These Easy Valentine Day Crafts for Kids!

I hope this articled helped you to find a few fun crafts to do with your kiddos this year.  Crafting with kids is one of the best ways to make memories and build bonds.  And, with the ideas listed here you won’t need to spend hardly any money at all!

 

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Fun Family Valentine Traditions

February 18, 2019 By: Sweet Frugal Lifecomment

How to celebrate valentines day with kids and on a budget!

If you’ve been following me on Instagram you’ve probably learned that my philosophy on parenting (and basically life) revolves around easy and cheap!  Our Family Valentines Day Celebrations are no different.

Did you know that the average person spends around $140 on Valentines Day.  This shocked me!  I understand that it’s fun to splurge a few times a year and I am a big fan of celebrating love and budgeting for joy.…but, I really believe this can be done without spending a lot of money.

Our Valentines Day is a celebration that includes my husband and I, and our three children.  I like to include my children because I love them too!  Valentines Day doesn’t have to only be about romantic love, it can be about all types of love!  We have a fun family day on Valentines day and then a frugal valentines date the next night.

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Family Celebrations

Our Valentines Day may be frugal, but that doesn’t make it any less special.  Even though I spend very little money, our day is still just as lovely and fun as ever.  My 6 year old has actually been counting down to the day for weeks (not joking).

Mailbox Love

Technically our valentines day traditions begin a couple of weeks BEFORE February 14th.  Years ago I bought these darling tin mailboxes at the Target dollar spot (I love Target!).  They were about $5 a piece, so not super frugal, but they have lasted us for years, and have been one of my favorite purchases ever (for reals).  I found a similar mailbox on Amazon here.


We use these mailboxes to “deliver” little love notes and handmade gifts to each other in the days leading up to Valentines Day.  It warms my heart every single time I watch one of my kids put a kind note into their siblings mailbox.  Real talk…..my kids fight a lot…..so these moments of kindness are just so so special to me.  I like to surprise my kids in their mailbox with small little gifts, such as a pencil, eraser, or some type of treat and a few love notes.  They love this!

Morning Love

Valentines day at our house always begins with heart shaped pancakes.  These aren’t fancy by any means….but guess what!  My kids never care.  They love their heart pancakes, misshaped and all (kids are pretty awesome this way, aren’t they??).

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School lunchboxes are packed in the morning as usual, with the exception of a few extra goodies.  I like to throw in a 25 cent box of conversation hearts and a little love note from me.    Now that my oldest is 13 I’ve started skipping the extra goodies in her lunchbox….I have learned that teenagers aren’t the biggest fan of mom notes in their lunchboxes….go figure!  😉

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Dinner Love

Decorating is not my forte, but I try to make our valentines dinner table a little extra special.  I use our nicest tablecloth (which is actually just a cheap one that I bought from Walmart 8 years ago), I always light a few candles, and cut out some red paper hearts to place around the table.  So easy right!?!?  But the kids love it!

 


Valentines dinner is simple, yet fun.  One year we had a heart shaped pizza, this year I will be making a chicken pot pie with the top crust decorated as hearts.  The amount of money I spend on dinner is always in my regular weekly grocery budget, so no excess spending here!  Woo!

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Frugal Valentines Gifts

Every year on our dinner table I include a small gift for each of my kids, and something for my husband.  This year I bought each of them a small box of chocolates from the Dollar Tree, my daughters both received a small necklace and my son received a stuffed animal from the Dollar Tree.  My husband is getting a larger sized box of chocolates and a love letter.

 


In Conclusion

These easy Valentine traditions aren’t anything fancy and hardly cost me anymore, but the gesture means a lot to my kids and I have found them trying to follow my example.  The past few years my kids have been making their own little valentine gifts, and then secretly placing them on the table before dinner.

If you are needing a more Valentines Day Gift ideas, I have a few guides listed below:

10 Valentine Gifts for Her under $10

10 Valentines gifts for him under $10!

Gift Ideas for Teen Girls under $25

25 Gift Ideas for Tween Girls; all under $25!

25 Gift Ideas for 5-7 year old boys under $25

Mothers Day Gift Guide: 15 FREE Gift Ideas

 

This is what Valentines Day is all about!  It’s about spending the time and thought to give service and love to someone you care about.

I was going to buy some strawberries and chocolate for an after dinner dessert and activity, but it honestly didn’t fit in this weeks grocery budget, so I didn’t.  Maybe next year!

Don’t forget to pin this article for future reference!

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You might be interested in a few of my other Valentines Posts:

Yarn Hearts: An Easy Valentine Craft for Kids

Chocolate Dipped Valentine Cookies Recipe

What are your family valentine traditions?

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