Last Updated on February 17, 2020 by Brie
Spending quality time with your kiddos is so important for creating a well rounded relationship with them. What better time is there to make a point of showing love than around the Valentine’s holiday? Crafting allows you to spend lots of quality time with your kids, so lets combine the two and get into some Adorable Valentine’s Day Crafts for Kids.
The Octopus
The valentine’s octopus is so simple to make! You only need a few simple supplies! Start out by collecting some empty toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls. Cut slits half way up the rolls from the bottom. These will be the tentacles. Then you paint them with acrylic paint. For this step you can use a simple paint brush.
After you have painted the entire toilet paper roll then you can use q-tips to paint the suction cups on the tentacles. Glue on some googlie eyes and add a smile in permanent marker and you are done! These are all things that 4 and 5 year old’s can do, so it makes for a very interactive craft!
Give this craft an extra Valentine touch by painting hearts on their cheeks!
Cupcake: Valentine’s Day Crafts for kids
My daughter came up with this fun little valentine’s day craft. You need many of the same supplies for this one that you needed to create the octopus pod! (Are the a pod? I don’t know!) Anyhow simply cut out a cupcake shape from a piece of construction paper. This can be done in any color you choose but we went with red for our Valentine’s Day Crafts for kids! We used a crayon to decorate the cupcake’s wrapper portion and then pink acrylic paint to add some color to the icing!
Then we used two other types of construction paper and a kid safe hole punch to create the sprinkles. They are just little hole punched circles! we didn’t even use glue to put them on, we just added them directly to the wet paint.
Create Valentine’s for Family, School mates, and Friends.
It is so simple to create Valentine’s for all of the people on your list. For my daughter’s school we bought some valentines with mini skate boards attached and then added suckers to the backs of them. At the preschool age kids just love the little toys that come with the Valentine’s!
But as fun as it is to pick out the Valentine’s with the little toys, it is also fun to make valentine’s as crafts for the afternoon. You can send these to distant relatives, use them to decorate the doors in your home (my daughters personal favorite) or your kiddos can just hand them out to whoever.
We have created a SUPER fun Valentine’s Card Printable to make doing hand made valentine’s so much easier on MOM! So grab your printable today and have a super fun Valentine’s afternoon of crafting! GET YOUR PRINTABLE HERE!
Valentine’s Preschool Crafts!
We did an entire post last year on five or so Valentine’s preschool crafts that you can do with your kiddo’s! These include things like making Valentine’s pipe cleaner stick people and a V is for Valentine craft. If you want to check out this list of Preschool Valentine’s Crafts for kids then you can do so here!
Valentine’s Day Crafts For Kids Supplies:
Everyone needs supplies for your crafting day’s to go along with your crafting ideas! I have linked everything mentioned in this post (and a few extra fun items that we like) so that you can easily shop them on amazon! If you sign up for prime two day shipping they should come in pretty quick! That is one thing I LOVE about amazon prime. I have an amazon prime student account right now because I am a college student and it is free for 6 months! I just love that! I’ve linked more information on the whole amazon prime student deal here if you want to learn more about it!
Thank you so much for stopping by today to learn ALL about our awesome Valentine’s Day Crafts for kids! Let me know in the comments BELOW which one was your favorite!
Brie