Fun, Cheap, & FreeValentines Day Activities for Kids
My Favorite Valentines Day Craft Ideas for Kids:
For Valentines Day crafts for kids, my free PDF has a TON of different ideas for all kinds of ages. For all ages, making Valentines for family members is a great way to celebrate the holiday! It will have something meaningful and sweet inside that is much more personal than the valentines they’d get at a party in public school. For younger students, look at color mixing! Mix red and white paint to make pink. This also works with blue and red!
Here's a list of our personal favorite Valentines Day Kids Crafts:
1. Make and exchange Valentine Day cards.
2. Color mix to make pink and purple.
3. Cut out heart shapes while practicing scissor skills.
4. Decorate a cut out heart with Carnation candy hearts, doilies, glitter, and more!
5. Decorate your home and school area with red and pink streamers, pink florals that will transition into spring, and heart decor. Involve the kids and have them help.
6. Food is always fun, Make cookies with valentines day sprinkles, pink (strawberry) cookies, and cookies in the shape of hearts.
Purchase Carnation heart candy and practice counting, color recognition, and sorting skills. Print out or trace a heart onto paper and have young students decorate the inside with torn up tissue paper (red, white, pink, and purple!). You can even grab heart cookie cutters and have them trace hearts onto red, pink, or white cookie cutters. Get out the safety scissors and have little ones practice scissor skills by cutting out heart shapes.
Homeschool Holidays Can be Fun, Too!
Recently, in my online homeschool group, we were having a discussion about Valentines Day.
Some kiddos are missing holiday parties with their school friends, and group members were asking my opinion to what we do as a homeschool family for these types of holidays. Of course, I had all kinds of ideas. I wanted to do a post on all the decor, foods, and crafts we get into! Read on for more!
We start out our day with a fun breakfast, red velvet pancakes. These are so fun, and so affordable. We use a box cake mix for this. It’s super affordable, around $1, from any grocery store. It’s much cheaper than making it from scratch. We use this recipe here.
Having boys, our family shows love through food. There’s no shortage of fun foods throughout the day. We love using strawberry cake mix, and make cookies and cupcakes with it. Look at fun red foods like strawberries, beets, tomatoes, strawberry jam, red peppers and more. Cut food into hearts with heart cookie cutters! For dinner, I usually make something a little more special. I will make something like steak or a special dinner they request.
Decorating Our Home
For the weeks leading up to the holiday, I love to go to the Dollar Store and buy pink and red decor. I make a pretty tables cape for my dining room table. This year, I made a gift bag banner from dollar store gift bags and string. It looks adorable on our mantle.
I put out my favorite silk cherry blossom flowers in my Hobby Lobby ceramic milk pitcher in the center of the table. I scattered around cute pink and red glitter hearts from the dollar store and we had a simple tables cape for a few dollars.
Check your Christmas decor, you probably have red decor stashed away already that you can re-use! This hit me just this year and I dragged my Christmas decor boxes back out of the garage. I found all kinds of things that I reused for Valentines Day!
