Valentine’s Day Craft Ideas: 50+ Projects to Spread the Love

Footprint Heart Craft

This adorable footprint heart craft uses red paint to make footprints that form the shape of a heart.

Handprint Love Birds

Two handprint love birds, with handprints painted in red and pink forming the birds’ bodies. The birds are holding a heart between them.

Heart Wreath Door Decor

Layer paper hearts on a cardboard ring, add a ribbon, and hang this festive wreath to spread Valentine’s Day cheer.

Popsicle Stick Valentine’s House

A child can make this popsicle stick house by gluing the sticks into a house shape and decorating with paper hearts and a red door, adding a cute Valentine’s touch.

Painted Christmas Ornaments

Children can paint clear ornaments with holiday designs such as snowmen, trees, and snowflakes using colorful paints.

Yarn-Wrapped Heart

A child can make this craft by wrapping yarn around a cardboard heart, creating a colorful and textured design.

Shrinky Dink Valentine’s Keychain Keepsake

Read here for the step by step directions on making handprint keepsakes with this special shrinking paper!

Blowing Hearts Valentine’s Day Craft

Create a sky-like background with blue paint, glue colorful paper hearts in a blowing pattern, and pose for a magical Valentine’s photo.

Hot Glue Heart Craft

Use a hot glue gun to create a heart and geometric lines inside. Once painted, it is a stunning piece of artwork!

Clothespin Butterfly with Heart Wings

Decorate a clothespin to create a butterfly’s body, attaching heart-shaped paper for the wings, and adding pom-poms for antennas.

Cupid Handprint Angel

The handprints form the angel’s wings, and a paper body with a red heart represents Cupid. The angel is holding the heart with a red thread.

Heart-Shaped Frame with Photo

Make this craft by cutting a large heart frame out of colored paper, gluing a photo in the center, and decorating the frame with small hearts.

Teddy Bear Toilet Paper Roll

A teddy bear crafted from a toilet paper roll, with paper ears, a heart-shaped patch, and a cute face. The bear is holding a heart and is surrounded by more paper hearts.

Valentine’s Flower Photo Card

Take a fun photo, add a small slit for a real or faux flower to “hold,” and write a Valentine’s greeting for a unique card. You could use a lollipop instead if you want!

Secret Message Watercolor Card

Write a Valentine’s message with white crayon, then paint over it with watercolors to reveal the hidden note.

Cardboard Flower Bouquet Craft

To make this craft, a child can glue colorful heart-shaped paper flowers onto a decorated cardboard tube, adding a creative touch with buttons or pom-poms as centers.

Ladybug Valentine Headband

A child can create this fun ladybug headband by gluing black pipe cleaners as antennas and red and pink heart shapes to a paper plate, which is attached to a strip of paper to form a headband.

Valentine’s Mailbox Craft

Create this adorable “Love Box” by decorating a small milk box with colored paper, hearts, and flowers, and then designing a small love letter to be slid through the opening.

Cork Butterfly Craft

Turn corks into a butterfly by adding colored paper wings and making the antennae with pipe cleaners. Children can glue on eyes and hearts to complete the look.

Egg Carton Flowers

Paint and cut egg cartons into flower shapes, then add green paper to make stems. This creates beautiful DIY flower arrangements perfect for Valentine’s Day.

Cork Heart Craft

This Valentine’s Day project combines recycled corks with red, pink, and white hearts and buttons, creating a charming heart-shaped display perfect for a homemade gift or decoration.

Tissue Paper Heart Wreath

From crumpled tissue paper in shades of red and pink, arranged into a heart shape. The wreath is set against a cardboard base and surrounded by additional heart-shaped decorations.

Paper Plate Birds with Hearts

A fun paper plate craft featuring two cute lovebirds made from paper cutouts. The birds are holding heart-shaped embellishments on their chests and are surrounded by heart stickers.

Pom-Pom Heart Craft

Use pom-poms to form a heart shape. Red, pink, and white pom-poms are arranged on a sheet, creating a playful and colorful decoration.

Bottle Robot

A creative and fun robot made from a plastic bottle, with googly eyes, pipe cleaner arms, and a heart on its chest. This Valentine’s-themed robot offers a playful twist on recycled crafts.

Butterfly Pasta

A beautiful butterfly crafted using pasta in various colors, forming its wings and body. This vibrant craft uses pasta, heart-shaped decorations.

Cup Characters

Adorable cup characters made from paper cups, with pipe cleaner arms and heart-shaped antennas. These Valentine’s creations are cute and colorful, making them a great activity for kids

Frame with Hearts

Create a heart-themed photo frame made from cardboard, decorated with red, pink, and glittery hearts. The frame holds a photo of a child, creating a memorable Valentine’s Day keepsake.

Rocket Tubes

A playful Valentine’s rocket made from toilette paper tubes, decorated with red, pink, and heart-shaped cutouts. This craft combines creativity with love-themed decorations.

Crafting Arrow Sticks

Adorable popsicle stick arrows decorated with paper hearts. Each arrow is designed with a heart tip and white feathered wings, creating a lovely Valentine’s Day themed craft.

Valentine’s Butterfly Footprint Craft

Make this craft by painting their feet in pink and red, stamping them on paper to create butterfly wings.

Bird Feeder Bottle

Create a recycled craft project turning a plastic bottle into a bird feeder, adorned with colorful hearts. The hearts are attached to strings, creating a festive decoration that can be hung outside for the birds.

Butterfly Toilet Paper Roll

Create a butterfly craft made from a toilet paper roll, decorated with heart-shaped wings and googly eyes.

Rock Teddy Bear Craft

Use rocks to make a teddy bear with a heart-shaped decoration on its chest. Painted stones form the body and face of the bear, adding a cute and playful touch to the craft.

Handprint Flower Garden

A beautiful handprint flower garden, with flowers made from handprints in shades of red and pink, each with a paper heart center. Green paper leaves are added.

Teddy Bear Valentine Plate Craft

Use a pink paper plate as the base, gluing heart-shaped ears and nose, adding googly eyes, and finishing off with a smile for a lovable Valentine’s bear.

Ladybug Handprint Art

A cheerful ladybug made from red handprints and black painted dots. The ladybug is surrounded by red and pink hearts, and the phrase “Happy Valentine’s Day” is at the bottom.

Valentine’s Day Message in a Jar

A cute mason jar filled with rolled paper scrolls adorned with red, pink, and white heart shapes. The jar is decorated with a red ribbon and hearts.

Heart Rocks Craft

Painted rocks shaped like hearts, with faces and love-related designs. Some rocks have hearts, others have the word “LOVE” written on them. The rocks are decorated with googly eyes.