Learn how to make lace heart ornaments and magnets. Easy to make with air dry clay, doilies or lace and beads, and a perfect gift for your Valentine!
70 Best Valentine’s Day Crafts to Help You Spread the Love
Valentine’s Day is a holiday that just begs for crafting adventures. How can you resist pasting, glittering, and decoupaging all of those tiny red and pink hearts? Even if you’re not what one might call “crafty,” you’re bound to have a ton of fun with the easy DIY Valentine’s Day craft ideas we’ve compiled here. Whether you need inexpensive Valentine’s Day gifts like DIY Valentine’s Day cards, a winning Galentine’s Day goodie, or just want a simple snow day activity to do with your kids, you’ll be set with our list.
If your yearly V-Day celebrations include a romantic dinner and a Valentine’s Day movie marathon while cozying up on the couch, switch it up in 2023 by making some cute crafts that will be a much welcomed addition to the day. Many of these crafts are perfect if you’re a newbie to DIY projects, because they’re simple and call for easy-to-find materials. You can make pretty DIY Valentine’s Day wreaths or Valentine’s Day boxes for the kiddos to keep their cards in. Crafting some of these knickknacks like the Mason jar heart vase or origami heart bouquet will be the perfect Valentine’s Day activity for the little ones. Or, try making the heart table runner and doily-stamped napkins to create a Valentine’s tablescape. Your Valentine’s Day desserts will look beautiful among your DIY Valentine’s Day decorations!
So, gather your craft supplies and read on for the most fun Valentine’s crafts for any age—they’re sure to spread lots of love!
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Conversation Heart Coasters
The Crafted Life
Give your guests something to talk about when you have these adorable conversation heart coasters sitting around. You just need some wooden hearts, paint, stickers, and sealant. They’re so cute, we suggest leaving them out when the holiday is over, too!
Get the tutorial at The Crafted Life.
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Valentine Heart Sun Catchers
Little Hiccups
Check out this simple way to decorate your home for V-Day. With a few types of paper (construction paper, tissue paper, and contact paper) as well as a sprinkle of glitter, you and your little love bugs can make these. They’ll be so excited to see their creations hanging on the window.
Get the tutorial at Little Hiccups.
19 Easy Valentine’s Crafts for Kids
Fun and easy Valentine’s crafts for kids that are filled with heart art for a whole month of Valentine’s Day fun! Updated December 2022 Are you looking for some great Valentine’s Day arts and crafts activities to share with your kids? Maybe they want to make valentines for their classmates, or maybe something special for a grandparent. Here are some of our favorites!
Easy Valentine’s Crafts for Kids
1. Heart Mandalas
A Valentine’s take on the back-and-forth mandala drawings we do around the year. We love the process of creating a joint artwork.
2. Faux Stained Glass Valentines with Black Glue
Learn how to make faux stained-glass valentines with black glue and watercolors.
3. A Valentine’s Day Bunting
Liquid watercolors and paper heart doilies combine to make this colorful window display.
4. Heart Melts
We’ve combined some of our very favorite art techniques (and subjects) into an art activity that is fun to do, sweet to gift, and gorgeous hanging in the window.
5. Heart Blot Art
Create unique heart art with symmetry painting. Kids of all ages, especially toddlers, LOVE this easy art activity!
6. Metallic Valentines
Looking to make something a little different this year? Try these metallic art supplies for homemade valentines.
7. Painting a Map of My Heart
A sweet painting activity for kids.
8. A Heart Suncatcher
These easy suncatchers are made with paper plates, contact paper, and index dividers!
9. Suncatcher Heartstrings with Melted Crayon Hearts
Create this Valentine’s Day garland with melted crayon hearts.
10. DIY Stained Glass Heart Crowns
These stained-glass heart crowns are fun to make and even more fun to wear!
11. Easy Foil Heart Valentines
Create melted crayon heart drawings on heated foil with this easy project.
12. Beaded Salt Dough Heart Ornaments
Sparkling heart suncatchers make a great Valentine’s Day gift or decoration.
More Valentine’s Day Arts & Crafts
13. Beautiful Free Form Hearts
These heart suncatchers would make amazing Valentine’s Day gifts
14. Glitter Rock Valentines
These glitter rock valentines are simple for kids to make and fun to give to friends. All you need are small rocks, glue, and glitter!
15. Coffee Filter Hearts for the Window
Make heart shaped coffee filter snowflakes for a beautiful window decoration!
16. Lace Hearts in Clay
Learn how to make lace heart ornaments and magnets. Easy to make with air dry clay, doilies or lace and beads, and a perfect gift for your Valentine!
17. Papel Picado for Kids
Learn how to create beautiful paper designs with tissue paper. For the perfect Valentine’s Day garland, try adding heart shapes.
18. Heart Sculptures
Heart shaped balloons and plaster of paris = amazing heart sculptures!
19. Homemade Valentines with Cardboard Hearts
Paint and decorate cardboard hearts for fun DIY Valentines! 
And be sure to try these Heart Shaped Cherry Hand Pies … they’re delicious! 
Looking for even more Valentine crafts for your family? Check out our Valentine’s Arts and Crafts bundle from the Kids Art Spot! Filled with 10 fun Valentine activities, each with a step-by-step video tutorial and printable instructions, plus 10 fun drawing invitations to encourage your kids to think and draw creatively. PLUS, you get 10 bonus Valentine activity printables AND 10 printable posters!
More Easy Valentine Crafts for Kids
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- 12 Process Art Ideas for Valentine’s Day Projects for Kids
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- Create a potato print heart garland
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Handmade Vellum Flower Valentine Card
This elegant and beautiful handmade vellum paper Valentine card is so easy to make, you and your child may want to make several to share with friends and your child’s classmates.
Pop-Up Valentine’s Day Card
Create your own adorable pop-up Valentine’s Day cards with these easy step-by-step instructions. Your grade-schooler will love making these Valentine’s Day cards almost as much as he will enjoy sharing them with his friends and classmates.
Using quilled paper hearts to decorate Valentine cards is a simple yet elegant project that’s fun for kids to do. Younger kids can help decide where the hearts will go on the card while older kids may be able to curl the strips of paper to form the hearts and help glue them onto the cards.
A Simple, Beautiful Valentine’s Day Card
One of the most fun Valentine’s Day crafts for kids can be making Valentine’s Day cards. This simple, easy-to-make beautiful Valentine’s Day card can be made using old wrapping paper and magazines—perfect for teaching kids the value of reusing materials and not wasting resources!
Here is a quick and easy Valentine heart paper garland that’s festive and fun to make. Best of all, you can use leftover holiday gift wrap or other pretty paper to make these fun Valentine’s Day decorations.
By Katherine Lee
Katherine Lee is a parenting writer and a former editor at Parenting and Working Mother magazines.
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