Our kids love Valentines Activities – they love to hear that they are loved and to share the love with their friends and family. These are 18 of the Valentines Day Activities that we discovered in our weekly linky, It’s Playtime. Come back this afternoon to see more of the 100+ kids activities that are shared by bloggers around the world.
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Valentine Craft Ideas
I love Red. Play with textures and make a collage.
Make a paper chain of hearts. On each link write something you love about your child
Create a coded homemade Valentine.
Make a valentines day tree. Decorate it with paper hearts.
Sugar cookies – decorate them in the shape of hearts.
Welcome birds to spring with a birdseed valentine.
Decorate a window with doiles for a fun kids activity.
Heart Rocks – to give a valentine of “you rock”.
Make a candle votive for Grandma.
Sew paperbags to create “hearts”, homemade treat bags.
Play with salt dough to create hanging hearts.
Valentines Day Activities
Be sure to show your child you love them with your actions
Get out the rose petals and flowery soaps and have fun with a sensory sink
Make a felt envelope – you can reuse it to send love notes to your child all year long .
Tell someone that you love them with a fun homemade card.
Simple Kids Activity: Use heart stickers to create a resist painting.
Do an act of kindness together with your child (or a hundred of them!!)
Give a valentine of playdough to the active child in your life.
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If you liked these activities, be sure to stop by the blogs and let them know they are loved!! And if you are looking for more activities, stop by the Kids Meme, It’s Playtime. A new round goes live every Wednesday afternoon.
About Rachel
Thanks for including our Valentine Sensory Sink!
Thanks for linking to my birdseed heart! Y’all are the best! And I missed that paper bag one when I was checking out the linky and am obsessed with it!!!! So glad you included it!
Thanks for including our heart votives! So many great ideas here!
Thank you for linking up your awesome project! We’ve already got our next Showcase up, so come stop by and link up another project!
Have a great week!
Susie@bowdabra
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Thanks for sharing! I have a nice Valentine craft idea. Here goes!
Go to your nearest dollar store and get ice-creme sundae glasses for $1 a piece. Fill each glass with Valentine candy of your choice like hearts, M&M, red, white and pink jelly beans. For the top of the sundae I used pink and white 1″ packing styrofoams which you can buy at Walmart, used a glue gun to glue them all together. I got 2 candy Pixie sticks for straws and a red or pink chocolate to replace the cherry on top. You will find a picture on my https://plus.google.com/#107040940913250872481/posts