As a former preschool teacher and lover of arts and crafts, I enjoy tapping into my creative side and I have been blessed with two children who love arts and crafts as much as I do. On any given day, you will find them with their crayons, glue sticks, and art trays creating random masterpieces that are proudly displayed in every room of our home, including the bathrooms. We especially love when the holidays roll around so that we can create themed artwork that helps decorate our home. These Valentine’s Day crafts for kids are sure to bring some extra love and warmth to your hearts and home this holiday season.
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Valentine’s Day Crafts For Kids
These crafts can be done by children of all ages. Older children will be more self-sufficient and can decorate the backgrounds or use their creativity to go beyond the directions and younger children will need more help and guidance.
Although, I recommend allowing your children to complete the projects on their own terms. It might “look” more appeasing if you glue your child’s hearts neatly in a row; however, that is taking away from allowing them to complete the artwork on their own.
Benefits of Allowing Children To Lead
As a parent, one of the most wonderful things to witness is your child accomplishing a task, all on their own. The pride and pure delight on their face is priceless and something that I will cherish always. This is one of the many reasons why I try to always allow my girls to do things on their own.
Sure, it would be much faster and more efficient if I did everything myself, but what would that be teaching them? I would rather allow them to help in the kitchen, clean up after themselves, and pick out their own clothes, among other things. Of course, the mess is 10 times bigger and they’re wearing Green Bay gold with pink polka dots and a tutu but hey, they are expressing themselves and learning what they are capable of.
Allowing them to master life through tasks and skills appropriate for their ages, helps boost their self-esteem. They become more confident and will develop skills that will be with them for a lifetime.
Art is no different. It’s a time for a child to express their ideas and experiment with different materials. When you allow children to create art for themselves, you are allowing them to experience their own sense of accomplishment, pride, and enjoyment. When they become aware of their own abilities and their internal sense of pride, they develop strong self-esteem and healthy confidence. These are qualities that every parent wants for their child, and how incredible that they can learn them through art.
Valentine’s Day Crafts
Name Love Bug
What You Will Need
Colored Copy or Construction Paper
Crayons, Markers or Colored Pencils
Heart Pieces– Optional
Steps
Cut out one heart for each letter of the child’s name, plus one for the bug’s head.
Have the child glue their hearts onto a piece of construction paper. We started with the last heart and worked our way to the first (head).
Once your glue is dry enough, have the child write their name, one letter on each heart. If your child is too young to write their own name, you can write it for them or use these letter stickers.
They can use googly eyes and draw a face on their bug. We also drew legs on ours.
The pipe cleaners and heart pieces didn’t stick well with regular glue, so we used a hot glue gun to add these at the end. I just had my girls point to where they wanted them and then I glued them on since it’s too hot for them to touch.
Ta-Da! Your very own name lovebug!
Mosaic Hearts
What You Will Need
Heart Printable- You can download your free printable here or draw/cut out your own.
Colored Construction Paper– Cut into tiny pieces
Steps
Print out your free heart printable here.
Cut construction paper into tiny pieces of various sizes and shapes. We used various shades of pink and purple scrap paper that we had saved. This was the perfect task for my preschooler who is working on her cutting skills. If you’re looking for learning scissors, we love this one for our toddler and this one for our preschooler. If your child is struggling with the cutting motion, these ones are perfect for both right-handed and left-handed children.
Once your pieces are cut out, you can sort them. We have a tray similar to this one that we use for almost all of our art projects.
Have your child glue the pieces onto their heart.
And that’s it!
One of the things that I love most is that no matter how many times you do this craft, no two mosaic hearts are alike.
Heart Butterfly
What You Will Need
Colored Copy or Construction Paper
Crayons, Markers or Colored Pencils
Heart Pieces– Optional
Steps
Cut out your hearts. You will need 2 large hearts for the wings, 4 or 5 hearts for the head and body, and 2 small hearts for the antennae.
Have your child glue the points of the hearts overlapping a bit, on a piece of paper. Add the hearts for the body down the center.
You will need to use a hot glue gun for the pipe cleaner and hearts for the antennae. Just remember to ask your child to point to where they would like to put them so that they are still making choices about their artwork.
You can use googly eyes or draw on your own face if you’d like.
If your child would like to draw clouds, trees, flowers, rainbows, or whatever their heart desires, let their little imaginations run wild.
Creativity is an important life skill that all children learn naturally when they participate in art. Children of all ages can create these Valentine’s Day crafts for kids and you will love displaying them around your home.
