February can feel a little cold and dreary but these February crafts for toddlers and preschoolers are a great way to brighten up your day with easy, hands on activities.
With fun themes that younger kids love including Valentines Day, winter animals and Chinese New Year, there’s lots for your child to learn about in a way that’s easy, fun and creative.
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Easy February Crafts for Toddlers and Preschoolers
In this post I’ll be looking at easy crafts for Valentines Day, heart crafts, winter animal crafts and crafts for Chinese New Year.
As a mom of two myself I’ve always found it much easier to plan activities with my kids when there’s a theme involved.
Toddlers and preschoolers are often naturally excited about the world around them and events taking place so it’s a great excuse to plan your activities around this, for example with the shops full of hearts and flowers Valentines Day crafts are really popular.
These crafts are designed to appeal to children aged one, two, three and four years old although as you’re aware their abilities and interests across this age group vary widely so take a look though these ideas to find the ones that are perfect for your child.
As always, crafts with toddlers and preschoolers require supervision throughout the activity especially when you include scissors or small parts.
More Themes for February
If you’re planning ahead or want even more inspiration some additional February themes that work well with toddlers and preschoolers are:
- Friendship and kindness
- Colors
- Groundhog Day
- Dental health and teeth
- Black History Month
Valentine’s Day Crafts for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Foil Valentines Day Craft
I did this easy Valentines activity with my daughter one afternoon after she’d been to playgroup and it was one that she really enjoyed.
The foil stamps can be created in whatever size you like making it perfect for little hands and with all the materials being basic ones that you’re likely to have at home it’s a great activity if you need something quick to prepare.
Valentines Tree Crafts
Use our free printable tree template to try out some of these simple Valentines tree craft ideas including painting with pom poms and heart shaped stamps made from cardboard tubes.
Printable Valentines Cards
Our print and color Valentines cards for kids are perfect for younger children and they’re totally free for you to download.
These cute Valentines cards have a cupcake design on them that kid can color with markers, coloring pencils or crayons.
Fingerprint Valentines Keepsake
I love keepsake crafts and anything with fingerprints, handprints or footprints by younger kids is automatically one to save for me.
This sweet craft from Messy Little Monster is perfect for Valentines day and includes a poem to use with your fingerprint craft too.
Heart Crafts
Heart themed crafts are great for Valentines Day but you can also use them as part of topics on kindness and friendship too.
Mosaic Hearts
These easy mosaic heart crafts are a great way to practice early cutting skills as well as being perfect for supporting fine motor skills.
The finished hearts would also be ideal for using to make a simple card with, just fold some cardstock in half and glue your heart craft on to the front.
Bubble Wrap Hearts
Rainy Day Mum shares a step by step tutorial on how to make Valentines heart cards using bubble wrap.
This simple craft is a great way to explore colors with kids as in addition to the colors you use you may also mix new ones.
Coffee Filter Heart Craft
These coffee filter hearts from No Time for Flashcards will make great decorations.
Hearts Painting on Foil
Using a hot glue gun means that the preparation for this craft is definitely one for the grown ups to do but this heart craft that I did with my daughter was great as a quiet time activity and she enjoyed exploring the different textures as well as painting them.
Winter Animal Crafts
Winter and arctic animals are a really popular February theme for kids with polar bears, penguins, snowy owls and arctic foxes all being popular choices.
Paper Plate Narwhal
Paper plate crafts are always a great choice for toddler and preschooler activities as not only are they cheap and convenient to buy, the thicker material means that they can cope with being covered in large amounts of paint.
This craft does include a small amount of cutting which your child may need assistance with but they can definitely help with painting the paper plates and drawing the narwhal’s face.
Paper Plate Polar Bears
This cute paper plate craft was made by my kids when my daughter was three years old and my son was six years old.
Not only are cotton balls a household staple in many homes, meaning that they’re an easy craft supply to get hold of, but they’re a really fun and sensory material for kids to use too.
Snowy Owl Craft
Make a simple snowy owl together by scrunching white tissue paper. We’ve used milk bottle lids too which are a great choice if you like using recycled materials.
Polar Bear Collage Craft
Use our free polar bear template and materials from your recycling bin or craft cupboard to make this collage.
Scrap paper is perfect for this activity and tearing the paper is a fun way for kids to develop their fine motor skills.
Chinese New Year Crafts
Learn about Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year) with these simple child friendly craft ideas.
Mosaic Lantern Craft
Use our lantern template to make this simple mosaic craft, not only does creating the mosaic help support fine motor skills but older kids can help cut out the paper squares and rectangles too.
Painted Chinese Dragon
This Chinese Dragon craft is made using our free printable Chinese dragon template and painting with q-tips that have been dipped in paint.
Make a Paper Lantern
Creating paper lanterns is a bit of a craft classic, I know that my kids have made these at preschool and I’m fairly certain that I did too!
Use our free lantern template printed onto paper or cardboard and then color in your lantern, use paints or markers, stickers or whatever supplies you have at home.
Chinese Lantern Suncatcher
The Gingerbread House shares a fun tutorial on how to make this suncatcher craft that’s perfect for learning about colors and color mixing.
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