Valentine's Day Crafts For
Kids
Valentine's Day is all
about love-and not just between couples!
Kids love to get in on the action, and creating fun Valentine's crafts
to share is a great way to let them have a good time and make something they
can give to friends and family to show their love on this special day. Here are a few easy and fun Valentine's Day
crafts for little ones.
Tissue Paper Flowers
Flowers may be overpriced
on Valentine's Day, but these easy to make tissue paper ones won't be-and they
will never die, either! Take green pipe
cleaners and some sheets of tissue paper in different colors. Cut the tissue paper into squares. Layer the different colored pieces of tissue
paper so that the corners all point in different directions. Then insert a green pipe cleaner through the
center and carefully scrunch the paper up to make a flower. Bend the top of the pipe cleaner in the
center of the flower to hold it in place.
You can make a whole bouquet, or hand them out one at a time as special
Valentine's gifts!
Valentine Mailboxes
Your kids need a place to
keep all those Valentines from friends and family, and a unique Valentine
mailbox is the perfect choice. Start
with a shoebox-the smaller ones that kids' shoes come in are a great size, so be
sure to put them aside the next time you buy shoes! Pick up a couple of rolls of wrapping paper
in Valentine's Day themed colors like pink and red, or anything featuring
hearts or flowers. Cover the exterior of
the box in wrapping paper. Then let you
kids decorate any way they want-with stickers, glitter, markers, or
crayons! Finish it off by adding their
name so their Valentines will be delivered to the right place.
Lollipop Bouquets
Create a tasty bouquet
that's as pretty to look at as flowers but tastes a lot better! Turn a Styrofoam cup upside down, and let
your kids decorate it with Valentine's colors, heart stickers, and anything
else you can think of. Then help them to
carefully insert the sticks of a variety of colored lollipops into the base of
the cup, creating a beautiful bouquet.
