As we get closer to Valentines Day I thought it was about time to share some easy Valentines Day crafts for toddlers with this round up of fun ideas. We love sharing crafts for toddlers and there’s lots of simple and sweet ideas today including cards, keepsakes and painting ideas – perfect for toddlers to join in with and help share the love!
Easy Valentines Day Crafts for Toddlers
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In this round up you’ll find lots of ideas for Valentines Day crafts that toddlers can make as well as some ideas for Valentines Day books to share together – perfect for cuddling up together on the sofa! Obviously there can be quite a difference in what a kid can make who has just turned one and what a kid who is about to turn three can do so do take a look through the list and see what ones you think would interest your child and suit their abilities – and of course the most important thing is to have some fun together!
You’ll find all of the crafts I’ve listed today in the same order that they appear in the collages below to make it a bit easier for you to find the ones you fancy the look of. There’s more ideas than are just shown in the collages though so do take a look through and find some new ideas to try out this year. Like these ideas? Make sure that you bookmark this page or pin an image so have all these ideas to hand when you need them.
These newspaper hearts are a good way to do some crafting with a bit of recycling
Find some old CDs or DVDs for this simple craft
Older toddlers can help cut out the shapes for this mosaic heart craft and get some scissor skills practice while younger ones will be fine just gluing them onto the shape (good for fine motor skills too!)
Cut out the cardboard hearts in advance and toddlers can decorate this photo wreath craft with love hearts.
Grab your salad spinner and make these fun painted hearts
Download the free printable and make a cute I Love You To Pieces card
These heart cards from Non Toy Gifts look great and are a great way to create with some different materials to normal
We made these painted cotton wool hearts.
My daughter had great fun making these foil painted hearts
We love suncatcher crafts and these Valentine themed ones look great.
Have you tried painting with marbles? This is a great activity that you could use to make Valentines Day cards with.
These clay heart ornaments are a cute make for kids
Make some simple Valentines tree crafts – we have a free template you can use to make them too!
We made these simple washi tape Valentines cards during a playdate and they were fun for the kids to make and they enjoyed giving them to each other too.
Another of our playdate makes, these Valentines Day wreaths were made when my daughter was two
I love the way these coffee filter hearts turned out.
Arts and Crackers shares a simple love bug craft that looks super cute and easy to make
Painting using shaving foam sounds like great fun for toddlers and you could help cut out the heart shapes in this craft to make cards or a garland.
This valentines themed paper plate craft is super cute
This fingerprint craft with a printable poem would make a lovely Valentines Day keepsake
Set up an invitation to create and make some sweet Valentines Day crafts
This tried and tested glittery heart craft looks great and I loved seeing how easy this was for a toddler to make!
Valentines Day Books For Toddlers
After a busy time crafting why not settle down together to share a story? We love sharing books together and have always used one of these bookcases which are great for younger kids to be able to find their favourites. These Valentines themed books all look fantastic – which would you add to your collection?
- My Fuzzy Valentine by Naomi Kleinberg – a cute book for Valentines Day from Sesame Street featuring Elmo (which makes me happy as I genuinely love Elmo!)
- Happy Valentines Day, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff – part of the ‘If you give a mouse…’ series which if you like you should check out our If You Give A Mouse A Cookie activities.
- Love From The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
More Crafts for Toddlers
We love sharing ideas that you can make with young kids and this round up of weather crafts for toddlers has been super popular with parents.
For those of you who have a Rod Campbell fan at home this round up of Dear Zoo activities and crafts is perfect – we read this book so many times!
Finally with Valentines Day on it’s way that means the next thing to celebrate is spring arriving – whoop! Check out our spring crafts for toddlers here.
