Valentines Day is a special day for love, romance, and friendship! It is one of the best days of the year to show your friends, family, and loved ones that you care. As an added bonus, it is a great holiday for people of all ages. Whether you have young children who want to make easy Valentine’s crafts for their classmates or you want to create a DIY Valentines Day card for your spouse, there are plenty of great ideas out there. The key is to find something that matches the arts-and-crafts skills of the person making it and still shows love and kindness to the recipient.
So, what are some DIY Valentine crafts? How can you turn cards into a part of your Valentine’s Day activities? What are some ideas for handmade cards if you don’t have a lot of experience with arts and crafts? Finally, what are some appropriate Valentine’s Day projects for people in different age groups? In today’s post, we will answer all of these questions and more!
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Valentines Day Craft For Preschoolers
Preschoolers frequently celebrate Valentine’s Day by exchanging cards, candies, or small gifts with their classmates. In most cases, parents simply buy premade cards or gifts from the store. However, actually having your preschooler make something from scratch can allow them to have fun and express their creativity at the same time! It’s also important to note that your preschooler may just want to make a gift for you or another member of the family. In any case, here are a few fun and easy Valentine’s craft ideas for preschoolers:
- Paper Heart – This is one of the easiest Valentine’s card ideas that also allows your preschooler to use their drawing skills. You can cut out the hearts yourself from colored paper and allow your child to draw smiley faces, animals, or even more hearts on each one!
- Heart Stamps – This one is both fun and requires you to get a bit creative. Using a toilet paper roll, you can push down one side to turn the hole into the shape of the heart. Then, provide your preschooler with a little bit of paint to dip the end of the roll into, creating a stamp. Finally, they can use the stamp to create hearts all over blank card stock.
- Candy Heart Art – Using candy hearts, you can make the process of creating Valentines Day crafts a lot easier! You and your preschooler can simply use glue or a safe adhesive to attach candy hearts to blank card stock. The small hearts can be positioned to create anything, including an even bigger heart!
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Valentines Day Craft For Kids
Once your kids have grown up a little, they may be ready to take on more challenging Valentines Day projects. This means they can do more of the work themselves (what a relief!) and can use their own words to address their cards or gifts to individual people. No matter what kind of craft or card you choose, you are bound to have a lot of fun with your children! Here are a few popular ideas for Valentines Day crafts for kids:
- Handprint Note – Using colored paper or card stock, your child can draw an outline of their own hand. Then, they can cut out the image and create a card using written words, glued decorations (like buttons), or even photocopies of their face!
- Googly-Eye Heart People – Now that your kids have advanced beyond preschool, they can probably manage to create more than just a simple heart. Instead, they can use different cuts of paper to create a heart with arms and legs. Just glue on some googly eyes, draw a face, and voila! You have a funny, handmade heart person!
- Friendship Bracelets – Friendship bracelets are one of the best ways for your children to show that they care about others. They can easily be made using string and decorated with hearts or small bobbles that you can find at any craft store.
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Valentines Day Craft For Teens
If you are the parent of a teenager, you know that it is not always easy to get them to participate in structured activities. However, if you have a teen who wants to make something for a special someone on Valentines Day or simply take part in a fun activity for the holiday, there are various ways to keep them occupied and make sure they can make a truly unique craft. Additionally, teenagers are often at the perfect age to start exploring their own creativity and artistic abilities, making this a great opportunity to help your child flourish and find new hobbies. So, here are some popular Valentines Day crafts for teens:
- Valentine Cookies – Valentine cookies are great because they allow you to work together as a family to make something delicious. Whether you choose heart-shaped cookies or regular cookies with red and pink sprinkles, you can brainstorm different ways to make them specific to the holiday. As an added bonus, your teen can give them out to friends at school and the family can enjoy the rest!
- Decorated Picture Frames – Picture frames allow your teen to celebrate a special memory or simply decorate one of their favorite selfies! Generally, creating a picture frame from scratch requires more materials and attentiveness, but it is well worth it in the end. To start, you simply need to get some chipboard sheets as a backing and decorations (DIY or premade) to surround the picture.
- Handwritten Cards – Even if your teen does not have the best handwriting, they can still create an extremely meaningful, handwritten holiday card. It is all about putting their emotions into words and really thinking about what they want to say to the recipient. Whether it is a friend, girlfriend, boyfriend, or family member, it will surely be appreciated and remembered!
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Valentines Day Craft For Adults
Finally, it would not be fair to provide ideas for the kids and teens while leaving out the adults! Fortunately, there are many ways to show that special someone in your life that you love them. Additionally, many of the same ideas that work for teens are also helpful for adults, especially adults who want to create fun Valentines Day projects for the whole family. That said, you don’t have to have a big family or even a romantic partner to enjoy Valentines Day arts and crafts. You can even create things on your own to celebrate the day:
- Custom or Monogrammed T-Shirts – Nowadays, you can easily create monogrammed t-shirts right from your computer. You can simply choose the image and design of your t-shirt and have a company make it for you. Alternatively, you can purchase a blank t-shirt and do the hard work yourself using acrylic paints. You can literally make whatever image comes to your mind. Then, you can keep it for yourself or give it to a loved one!
- Decorated Mason Jar – This one is fun because it is a good way to make use of mason jars that you might have lying around the kitchen. Rather than letting mason jars collect dust, you can decorate them using string, paint, glued decorations, and something to fill them. If you plan to give one or more of your decorated mason jars away as gifts, you could use multicolored sand on the inside or fill it with something consumable like candies or chocolates!
- Valentines Cake – Just like cookies, cakes make for a great Valentines Day family activity. You can decorate them however you want and then enjoy the fruits of your labor. Also, if you want to give a nice gift to a special someone, a heart-shaped cake is a great way to show your affection!
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