Are you looking to make a preschool Valentines craft this year? We got you! This love bug craft is the cutest preschool Valentines day craft! Kids of all ages, particularly toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten kids, are gonna love this preschool Valentines craft. It’s fun, colorful, and full of great colors we think of when we think of Valentine’s day! Make this love bug preschool Valentine’s craft at home or in the classroom.

Preschool Valentines Craft

Let’s make an adorable love bug craft with the kids! These super cute love bugs allow kids to mix paint colors, get a little messy, and make an adorable love bug for Valentine’s Day.

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This love bug craft is perfect for kids from preschool aged to early elementary. They will love being able to mix paint colors together, and can use their fingers or a paintbrush. I made this project with 3 and 4-year-olds and they had so much fun.

How to make our Preschool Valentines love bug craft

Using construction paper we will paint our love bug before adding feelers and googly eyes. You could also make these using a paper bag to make a love bug puppet or paper plates! All you need is basic craft supplies!

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Supplies needed to make our Preschool Valentines love bug craft

• Construction paper
• Paint – red, purple, and pink
• Paintbrush
• Scissors
• Glue stick
• Googly eyes

Instructions for making our Valentines love bug Craft For kids

Step 1

Using Valentine’s Day colors and a paintbrush, paint your construction paper. As you can see this doesn’t have to look perfect, just let the kids paint it however looks good to them.

As you can see all of our love bugs are going to look completely different giving them each their own personality.

Step 2

Using glue, attach googly eyes to your construction paper love bugs.

Step 3

Cut out feelers from construction paper to glue to the top of your love bugs.

Craft tip: If you fold the construction paper in half you can cut out a matching pair of feelers.

Our finished Preschool Valentines craft

This preschool Valentines craft may not be filled with sweets, but rather, you’re making a super cute love bug that can be used as decorations. And it is fun fine motor skills practice that little hands will love doing. Plus you can use it to make a sweet Valentines picture for mom, grandma, whoever. This easy Valentine craft could easily be turned into Valentine cards.

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And you can make it your own! Turn this into a heart craft by adding stickers, or make these adorable Valentines love bugs more cute by using fingerprints and handprints to make them more colorful and fun. These fun Valentines crafts are your own! Add pipe cleaners as arms, yarn for hair, tissue paper dresses, anything you want to your fun Valentine’s day crafts.

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Have you made our love bug crafts with the kids? Now have them make up fun names for them.