Printable Homemade Valentine’s Day Cards for Kids
Instead of buying cheap cards at your everyday grocery store, try these homemade Valentine’s Day cards that the kids can hand-make and color! What better way to show your true love than by giving your special someone a personalized gift?
These free printable Valentines are perfect handicrafts for kids of all ages. Your younger children will have so much fun coloring cards they made themselves. Older kids alike will enjoy making a special card in their unique style
These paper crafts are designed in traditional card squares or heart shapes for your kids to cut out.
Homemade Valentine’s Day Cards for Kids
Your kids will love coloring a handmade card, writing a sweet message, and giving it to a best friend! Crafting homemade cards is a way to engage them in making cute valentines for their siblings and friends while having so much fun.
Kids love to color! The hand movements involved in coloring and cutting with scissors are a great way for young kids to learn fine motor skills.
The lovely paper heart printables on the last few pages of the pdf are perfect for the younger ones to doodle on. For a fun project, they can use watercolors with the heart cutouts to make a hand-painted card.
These DIY Valentine’s cards are a very simple, fun activity using everyday construction paper, white cardstock, and glue. Using a little creativity, this is a perfect way for kids to make Valentine’s Day crafts without the stress of on Mom of having to go out and buy them. Not only is it much easier, your kids will have a lot of fun doing it!
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List of Supplies Needed:
-Scissors
-Pink and Red Paper Cardstock
-Glue Stick
-White printer paper
-Crayons, pencils, or colored pencils
-Envelopes (4.375 x 5.75 inches)
Directions:
1. Print the free PDF Valentine’s cards on white printer paper.
2. Have the kids color the picture using colored pencils, crayons, or watercolor paints.
3. Using the pink or red cardstock, fold it in half and cut it into two pieces. (You can make two cards from one paper.) Fold the half sheets in half to make a card.
4. Cut out and glue the Valentine card pictures to the red or pink cardstock.
Candy Valentine Tags
These are little tags you can attach with ribbon, jute string, or yarn onto your favorite bar of candy or small gift and give to a friend! Easy and fun to color, these tags are a great way to give your special someone a sweet treat.
Materials needed:
-Scissors
-Glue Stick
-Ribbon, string, or yarn
-Hole punch
-Crayons, pencils, or colored pencils
Directions:
1. Print the free printable Valentine’s tags on white printer paper.
2. Have the kids color the tags with crayons, colored pencils, or watercolor paints.
3.Write “To” and “From” on the back of the tag.
4. Have the kids write a special message on the back of the tag. (I’ve listed some popular Valentine messages at the bottom of this post.)
5. Cut the tags out and hole punch the designated circle. Pull the ribbon or yarn through.
6. Tie the ribbon with the tag on it to a candy bar and pass out to friends!
Valentine Notes
Use these paper hearts to make fun little notes and hide them all around the house, in a friend’s backpack, or a sibling’s dresser drawer. Below I’ve included sweet sayings they can write on the back if they need ideas.
The pdf has a bunch of heart sizes so you can use them for a variety of purposes. These are a great way to spread a little fun on Valentine’s Day!
Ideas:
-Use watercolor paints, colored pencils, or crayons to make unique designs on the different-sized hearts to decorate your table or other areas of the home. You can even attach the assorted hearts to a string with clothespins like a banner.
-My daughter also used the Valentine’s heart cut-outs (below) to make a pop-up card.
-What kids don’t love putting stickers on EVERYTHING? Purchase some heart stickers or googly eyes at your local craft store for them to use in decorating their hearts or cards.
Materials needed:
-Black pen, pencil, crayons, or colored pencils
-Scissors
Directions:
1.Print out assorted Valentine’s hearts on white printer paper, or pink or red cardstock.
2. Have the kids write a special message on one side.
3. Cut out.
4. Optional — fold hearts in half before giving them away.
Valentine Sayings
Often when making their own cards, the kids don’t know what Valentine’s Day message to write. What do you put on those blank cards to make it individual to that specific friend? Here are a few sayings I came up with:
“You make my day!”
“Be my Valentine.”
“Roses are red, violets are blue, I love Valentine’s Day, and I love you too!”
“You make my heart soar.”
“I love you to pieces!”
“Let’s be friends!”
“Right from the start, you stole my heart!”
“You make me smile.”
“I LOVE being your friend.”
“Valentine’s Day is better with friends like you!”
“You are special.”
“You’re sweeter than the candy in this gift!”
“Love you lots!”
“I’m so glad we are friends.”
“You have a big heart!”
“You’re such a fun person to know!”
“You’re the brightest star in the universe.”
“You are so sweet!”
“Happy Valentine’s Day!”
I hope these craft ideas help you make Valentine’s Day meaningful and fun for your kids! What other Valentine’s Day craft ideas can you make with these? Leave a comment below to share your ideas with others!
Happy crafting!
If you like making holiday cards with your kids, you may want to try these for Christmas too!
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