5 Valentine’s Day Crafts

5 Valentine’s Day Crafts

We have rounded up five Valentine's Day crafts that your children will have lots of fun making.

Read on to discover how to ‘rock your valentine’, ‘grow your love’ or make a heart-shaped bird feeder with our Valentine's Day craft ideas.

1) Blob and Squish Heart

These cheerful Valentine's Day heart paintings are super easy to make, and children of all ages will love seeing the patterns they can make.

 WHAT YOU'LL NEED

  • White card (cut into a heart shape)
  • Paper
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Fold a piece of white card in half and cut out a half heart shape (with the fold in the middle of the heart).
  2. Unfold and blob your paint onto one side of the heart (as many colours as possible).
  3. Fold back together.
  4. Unfold and leave to dry.
  5. Decorate with glitter, sequins and anything you like to make the perfect Valentine's Day craft!

2) Handprint Valentines card

Children will love making these super cute bear strawberry Valentine's cards by @jess.playadventures, and they make a lovely keepsake to remember how little their hands were.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

  • White card
  • Red/green paint
  • Black felt tip pen
  • Paintbrush
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Paint your child's hand red and press onto white card.
  2. Paint on the stalk using a paintbrush and green paint.
  3. When the strawberry is dry, add some seeds with a black felt tip pen.
  4. Add your Valentine's message with a felt tip pen.

3) Seed Paper Valentines

For those with green fingers then Seed Paper Valentines is the craft activity for you. This is the DIY Valentine that keeps on giving. It’s a homemade paper heart filled with seeds. In the spring, your Valentine plant the paper heart and gets to watch the wildflowers grow.

 WHAT YOU'LL NEED

  • 1 cup of ripped-up newspaper + red/pink paper
  • 2 cups of water
  • Wildflower seeds
  • 3 heart-shaped mini cookie cutters or silicone moulds
  • 2 large bowls
  • Blender

INSTRUCTIONS

Prep Your Paper

  1. Tear the newspaper or junk mail into small pieces. This is the perfect task for tiny hands that need something to do! Be sure to throw in a few small pieces of red or pink paper.
  2. In a blender, blend the water and paper until it’s chunky. It should look like oatmeal.
  3. Dump the mixture into a bowl.
  4. Take handfuls of the pulp and squeeze out most of the water. The pulp should now be moist, but not sopping wet.
  5. Put your squeezed-out pulp into a clean bowl.
Make Your Seed Paper
  1. Sprinkle your pulp with wildflower seeds and gently mix with your fingers.
  2. Divide your pulp into three equal parts.
  3. Mash each part into the mini cookie cutters or silicone molds.
  4. You can pat the tops dry with a cloth to get rid of excess moisture.
  5. After 24 hours, pop the paper hearts out of the tins and place them on a cookie rack for another 24 hours to finish drying.
  6. Attach these hearts to homemade cards or simply wrap them in wax paper and give away as Valentines.

Be sure your Valentine knows to plant the heart in the spring, water it well and watch a sweet patch of wildflowers come to life!

4) Heart shaped potato prints

This super easy craft is perfect for children to make Valentine's cards for all their friends. All you need is some card, paint, and potatoes.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED
  • Brown card (or any colour you would like)
  • Red/light pink/dark pink/white paint
  • Potatoes (baking potatoes, maris pipers and king edwards all work well)
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Cut a heart shape into your potato, or use a small heart shaped cookie cutter to create the outline, then cut around it with a sharp knife.
  2. Let your little one start stamping on the paper!
  3. Leave to dry.

5) Heart-shaped bird feeder

Create a lovely Valentine's Day bird feeder for all the lovely birds to dine on.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

  • 2 cups birdseed
  • 1/2 cup lard or peanut butter
  • Mixing bowl
  • A piece of string for the hanger
  • Heart-shaped cookie cutters
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Mix your peanut butter/lard and bird seeds together in a large mixing bowl.
  2. Transfer the seeds into the cookie cutters to the half way point.
  3. Place a piece of string in birdseed to be able to hang your bird feeders later on.
  4. Put your birdseed in the freezer for an hour so you can unmould your bird feeders easily.
  5. Unmould your bird feeders and hang them from a tree - keep the remaining bird seed mixture in the fridge until you are ready to hang them.
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