Three Easy and Meaningful Valentines Crafts | Family Futures (2024)

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February 7, 2024

Written by Dr. Sandy Portko, Early Childhood Expertise

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It’s just one week until Valentine’s Day 2024! Now is a great time to spend some quality time with everyone and anyone who brings joy to your life. Easy, low-mess crafts like these are great ways to spend intentional time together while also developing a variety of skills.

As a special bonus, we made some free PDF printables to help you complete the following crafts. These printables are easy to use for your own crafting ideas too, so get creative and have fun with it!

Heart Trees

This craft involves:

  • Scissors
  • Regular white paper
  • Colored construction paper or markers
  • Glue or Tape

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First, take out a piece of blank white paper and draw a big tree trunk with lots of branches stemming off from it, but no leaves. If you’d prefer, instead of drawing a tree you can also use our printable version here: Tree Silhouette

Second, take out another piece of paper and cut out small hearts. You can use white paper and color in the hearts yourselves, or you can use colored construction paper. To make things easy, we also made a printable with easy cut-out hearts here: Valentines Day Heart Small. If possible, this is a great opportunity for your child to get some cutting practice and develop their fine motor skills, under your supervision of course!

Lastly, use glue or tape to place the hearts down like leaves on the tree. You and your child can exercise creative freedom deciding where the hearts go and what colors to use throughout.

Bonus step: If you’d like, write one thing on each heart that represents a person, place, or thing that you or your child loves!

DIY Mini Valentines

This craft involves:

  • Scissors
  • Colored construction paper (lighter colors work best)
  • Thin Markers

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To make your own mini valentines, use this printable to cut out medium-sized hearts: Valentines Day Heart Medium

You can use white paper or colored construction paper for these, but I recommend using lightly colored red, pink, or purple paper!

Once you’ve cut out the hearts, here are some examples of ways you can make your own valentines:

You can choose to write a message on one side, then fold it in half down the middle of the heart. On the other side, you can write “To” and From”.

If your child is still learning to write, it may be tougher for them to write a full message on this size of paper. So, another way to do these is to have them practice writing their name and other peoples’ names on either side, like so:

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Even though there isn’t a message, folks will appreciate receiving a heart from their little loved one!

Thankfully my dogs, Penny and Winston, were available to help me demonstrate this craft. I think Penny liked it!

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Love Portraits

This craft involves:

  • Regular paper
  • Drawing utensils of your choice (pencils, markers, crayons, etc.)
  • Scissors (optional)

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For this craft, all you need to do is take out a piece of paper and draw a big heart. To make this easier, we made a big printable heart pdf here: Valentines Day Heart Large. Ask your child to draw things they love in the heart, whether it be one big drawing of them doing something like playing outside or multiple small drawings of things like friends, pets, or toys they like. If possible, draw one for yourself at the same time, then after you’re both done, spark a meaningful conversation by telling them about your drawing and asking about theirs. This is a great way to not only give your child the chance to share about what they love, but also to show your child how much you love them by including them in your drawing.

At the end, display the artwork somewhere in your home. As an optional step, you can get some cutting practice in by cutting out the heart and displaying it that way. However, you can also leave it as one whole page if you don’t have access to scissors or if your child took their creativity outside the lines.

Thanks for reading!

We love to hear from folks in our community, so if you try out any of these crafts, please tag us in your post with @familyfutures on Instagram or Facebook!


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Crafts for Valentine's Day 2024

This article discusses easy and low-mess crafts that can be done to celebrate Valentine's Day. These crafts are not only fun but also help develop various skills. Let's explore each craft mentioned in the article:

Heart Trees

To create a heart tree, you will need regular white paper, colored construction paper or markers, scissors, and glue or tape. Here are the steps involved:

  1. Take a blank white paper and draw a big tree trunk with branches stemming off from it, but no leaves. Alternatively, you can use a printable version of a tree silhouette provided in the article.
  2. Cut out small hearts from another piece of paper. You can use white paper and color in the hearts yourself or use colored construction paper. Printable cut-out hearts are also available in the article.
  3. Use glue or tape to place the hearts on the tree as leaves. You and your child can exercise creative freedom in deciding where the hearts go and what colors to use. As a bonus step, you can write one thing on each heart that represents a person, place, or thing that you or your child loves.

DIY Mini Valentines

For DIY mini valentines, you will need scissors, colored construction paper (preferably lighter colors), thin markers, and a printable with medium-sized hearts. Here's how you can make your own valentines:

  1. Cut out medium-sized hearts from colored construction paper or white paper. The article provides a printable with medium-sized hearts that you can use.
  2. You can choose to write a message on one side of the heart and fold it in half down the middle. On the other side, write "To" and "From." Alternatively, if your child is still learning to write, they can practice writing their name and other people's names on either side of the heart.

Love Portraits

To create love portraits, you will need regular paper, drawing utensils of your choice (pencils, markers, crayons, etc.), and scissors (optional). Here's how you can make love portraits:

  1. Take out a piece of paper and draw a big heart on it. You can use a printable version of a large heart provided in the article.
  2. Ask your child to draw things they love inside the heart. They can draw one big drawing of themselves doing something or multiple small drawings of things like friends, pets, or toys they like.
  3. You can also draw your own love portrait alongside your child's. After you both finish, spark a meaningful conversation by sharing about your drawings and asking about theirs. Display the artwork somewhere in your home. Optionally, you can cut out the heart and display it that way.

Remember, these crafts are meant to be enjoyable and provide an opportunity for quality time together while developing various skills. Feel free to get creative and adapt the crafts to your preferences and available materials.

I hope this information helps you engage in fun and meaningful activities with your loved ones for Valentine's Day! Let me know if there's anything else I can assist you with.

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