| | Create Rubber Stamps |
| | Make a scrapbook of you and your significant other |
| | Make Cards - Get a wide variety of craft items and lots of glue and cardstock |
| | Homemade valentines out of paper doilies, construction paper, stickers, paint, etc – kids |
| | Write an original poem for your sweetheart at Valentine's Day. |
| | Valentines Day: find paint your own pottery store. Pick out something for each other and paint it. Ask in advance if the store has couples nights, or allows you to bring/order dinner while you paint. |
| | Make a coupon book for tasks, gifts, outing, etc.. |
| | Make a scrapbook out of paper bags titled "What I love about you." |
| | Heart attack someone, cut out all different sizes of hearts and cover a bedroom, office, car etc... |
| | sweethearts can make a mosaic frame - its one of a kind - to place a couple's picture inside |
| | a great Valentines gift for a pre-school child is to make thumbprint Valentines. We use preprinted wooden hearts, then have each child place their thumb in washable paint. The child presses their thumb onto the heart and leaves a thumbprint. Print name, date and age, put a magnet on the back. Finished. A great keepsake for parents, grandparents etc. |
| | pipe cleaner and bead hearts--string read and white beads on a pipe cleaner and shape into a heart. Attach a string and you have an ornament or necklace |
| | young children can, with adult supervision, make impressions of their hands in quick drying type clay. Use both or one hand. Have the shape of the clay be in a heart. after dry, paint with a message like , 'I love grandma' |
| | I think a nice Valentines Day gift that young children could give their parents would be a young tree. Something that the parents could plant in the yard, and it could grow with the children. |
| | I think a nice valentines gift that a guy could give his girlfriend would be to compose a treasure hunt. Start off at one location, and leave a note telling his girlfriend to go to the place they first held hands. Then the girlfriend goes there and finds a note that says to go to the place they first had dinner together. This would show the girlfriend that he really was paying attention during the time they were dating |
| | Valentines art for children - Candy Necklaces: Lay out three feet of plastic wrap. Cut it in half lengthwise. Place candies or groups of candy every three inches. Roll plastic over and tie bows between each candy using six-inch strips of ribbon. Tie the two ends of the plastic wrap together and cover the knot with another ribbon. |
| | For Valentine's Day instead of everyone going out and buying packaged cards the children can get together and make cards for each other and their parents out of construction paper with Heart stencils to cut out hearts and glue and glitter to add sparkle and markers to draw and write on them with. Also buy a bag of lollipops and tape them inside the cards or on the front when they are done. |
| | Get some clay and make clay roses and paint them |
| | make a dried rose topiary |
| | Make chocolate roses. All you do is buy a mold, chocolate, and sticks from |
| | Michael's and you can make your own chocolate flower bouquet for a bf/gf |
| | A Valentine craft for boyfriends and girlfriends could be a Sailor's Valentine. You decorate a small paper mache box or card with small, purchased or collected seashells. Normally you would glue the shells in a pretty, mosaic type pattern into flowers or other pleasing shapes. |
| | There are lots of fun Valentine crafts for school aged kids. For boys or girls, you make an airplane out of candy. You use 2 lifesavers for the wheels, a sweetart roll for the body and a piece of gum for the propeller. Use everything individually wrapped. You can write or stamp the gum wrapper with a valentine sentiment like "Come fly away with me" etc. You use elastic bands or glue to put everything together. A perennial favorite for old and young alike is Chocolate Roses. You tape (double stick tape) 2 candy kisses bottom to bottom. This can be left as is or wrapped in colored saran wrap, tissue or cellophane. You then tape a pipe cleaner, wrapped in florist tape to one end of the kiss. You can add leaves with tissue, cellophane etc. |
| | 5 to 8 year old - Foam Craft board and cookie cutter - cut out shapes and color and decorate with markers - glue on glitter and bits of lace. |
| | Romantic craft for boyfriends & girlfriends - making candles together, and then exchanging them afterwards. |
| | Make breakfast for your boyfriend, heart shaped pancakes, etc. Make a homemade card for your sweetheart, using eclectic things that resemble the shape of a heart on the front of the card (buttons, a cookie, a shell, a leaf, anything.) If you can write poetry, write one and frame it for him/her. If you can play an instrument, practice a special song and play it for her/him at your special place. |
| | heart people. cut out heart shapes of various sizes and colors. glue small hearts (legs, arms, and head) to larger heart bodies and add faces with markers or crayons. |
| | paper chains. cut thin strips of red, pink, white paper and glue or tape first one into a ring shape. add more rings to create a valentine's chain. |
| | Jell-O paintings. use cherry or strawberry flavor Jell-O packet, add small amount of water to create "paint". Use to create sweet smelling valentines pictures. |