A Lovely Week of Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids

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Make this week before Valentine’s Day a lovely one with the kids!

I don’t usually go overboard with holidays (at least not too much). When it comes to blogging about our activities, its usually better if I start blogging about holiday activities 6+ weeks before the holiday. And that just is too hard for me. Even for Christmas, that’s hard! This year… you may have noticed, I didn’t share any new Valentine’s activities or crafts yet. That’s because, its one of those holidays that I just have to wait until the holiday is here.

So this week, I’m going to make it a lovely week with the kids to celebrate Valentine’s Day!

I planned a week of Valentine’s Day crafts and activities to do, and thought you might enjoy them too.

Here’s this week’s activities for Valentine’s Day:

 

Monday: Heart Garlands

Cut many hearts from red, purple, blue papers. Cut several long pieces of string to tape hearts onto. Hang in window as garlands.

Supplies needed:

• paper
• scissors
• tape
• string, yarn or ribbon

Find details: Heart Garland for Valentine’s Day

Tuesday: Texture Heart Painting

Tape a heart on paper, then use unusual objects to paint! Make textures with combs, roll on the paint with a rolling pin! Remove the tape when dry.

Supplies needed:

• painter’s tape
• paper
• paint
• comb or fork
• rolling pin

Find details: Valentine Art for Toddlers: Scratch, Roll, Resist

Wednesday: Valentine Sensory Foam

Make sensory foam with dish soap and a little bit of water and red, pink or purple food coloring in a food processor. Put on a tray to explore!

Supplies needed:

• water
• dish soap
• food coloring
• food process or blender
• tray

Find details: Soapy Sensory Foam Activity

Thursday: Stuffed Heart Valentines for Friends

Make Valentines for friends. Decorate paper to your desire. Cut a set of hearts out of the decorated paper and a another set of hearts from plain paper. On the plain paper write ‘to:’ and ‘from:’ for Valentines. Staple hearts together half way. Fill with desired ‘Valentine’ (candy, play dough, or other surprise!) and staple heart closed, include a ribbon at top for a handle.

Supplies needed:

• paper
• paint
• stapler
• Valentine gift
• ribbon

Find details: Stuffed Heart Valentines

Friday: H is for Heart

Cut an heart out of pink or red paper. Write in the middle “H is for Heart”. Write various letters around the edge of the object (with many of them being H or h). Find the letter that the object starts with and clip each with a paper clip.

Supplies needed:

• red or pink cardstock
• scissors
• marker
• paper clips or clothespins

Find details: Find the Letter on the Heart

Saturday: Healthy Heart Snack

Make a heart snack by spreading cream cheese on crackers. Dip end of celery in jam and stamp onto cream cheese to make hearts. Eat up!

Supplies needed:

• crackers
• cream cheese
• celery stick
• jam or jelly

Find details: Kid-Made Valentine Snacks for the Classroom

Sunday: ‘I Love You’ Scavenger Hunt

Go on an ‘I Love You’ scavenger hunt. Hide hearts (or just hide one a day) with words of how you love your child written on each heart.

Supplies needed:

• paper
• markers or pen

Find details: Valentine’s Scavenger Hunt to Find the Ways I Love You

More Valentine’s Day activities and crafts can be found here:

• 21 Valentine’s Day Crafts for Preschoolers
• 33 Kids Valentines for School