# 10 Valentine's Day Crafts and Art Activities
> A short and sweet roundup of 10 simple Valentine's Day art, sensory and craft activities from Fun Littles, from heart printing and sparkly cards to rose-scented doughs and heart butterflies. Each idea links to its original post for full instructions.
- URL: https://www.funlittles.com/10-valentines-day-crafts-and-art-activities-for-kids/
- Ages: 2–8 yrs · Difficulty: easy · Mess: medium
- Time: prep none, activity varies
- Works for: one-on-one, small group, whole class
- Skills: art, fine-motor, sensory-exploration, pretend-play

## Safety
- Supervise sensory play at all times.
- Small decorations like sequins, gems and googly eyes are choking hazards. Supervise closely with toddlers.
- Melted crayon art: an adult handles any heat source.
- Homemade playdough and cloud dough: check the original recipes for ingredients and allergens before using them with a group. They are not for eating.

## Before you start
- Open each linked original post for its materials list and full instructions.

## Ideas
- **Sparkly Hand Print Art**: Valentine's day sparkly hand print art that becomes shiny Valentine's day cards.
- **Blown Heart**: A Valentine's day blown heart for homemade Valentine's day cards.
- **Crayon Heart Art**: Easy Valentine's day heart art made with crayon, like a 'my heart belongs to Daddy' card.
- **Hearts Printing**: Print hearts all over the paper in red and pink. Great for toddlers.
- **Giant Hand Print Heart**: Want to surprise daddy or mommy? Make a giant hand print heart art.
- **Rose Scented Playdough**: A super simple, sweet smelling rose playdough recipe.
- **Rose Scented Cloud Dough**: Wonderfully sensorial, rose scented cloud dough.
- **Hearts Butterflies**: Butterflies with heart wings that work as treat holders.
- **Heart Shaped Animals**: Paper animals built from cut-out hearts.
- **Paper Flowers Bouquet**: A paper flowers bouquet craft, plus flower shop pretend play.

## Tips
- Hearts Printing is great for toddlers.
- The hearts butterflies work as treat holders.

## The original post by TurkeyMom (2014)

Before diving in with this year's Valentine's day crafts and art stuff, here is something to get you all started. A short and sweet round up of all the Valentine's crafts and art activities we have done in the past year. Click on the image to take you to the original post. ***Valentine Art***

[**Valentine's day sparkly hand print art**](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-cards-for-kids/)

[](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-cards-for-kids/)

[**Valentine's day blown heart**](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-cards/)

[](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-cards/)

[**Valentine's day crayon art**](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-crafts-melted-crayon-hearts-art/)

[](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-crafts-melted-crayon-hearts-art/)

**[Hearts Printing](https://www.funlittles.com/valentine-art/)****( great for toddlers)**

[](https://www.funlittles.com/valentine-art/) Want to surprise daddy/mommy? Make a [**giant hand print heart art.**](https://www.funlittles.com/homemade-gift-for-valentines-day/) [](https://www.funlittles.com/homemade-gift-for-valentines-day/) ***Valentine's day sensory activities***

Super simple, sweet smelling [**rose playdough recipe.**](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-activities-rose-scented-playdough/)

[](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-activities-rose-scented-playdough/)

Wonderfully sensorial, [**rose scented cloud dough**](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-activities-sweet-smelling-cloud-dough/) [](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-activities-sweet-smelling-cloud-dough/) ***Valentine's day crafts for kids***

[**Hearts butterflies**](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-crafts-hearts-butterflies/) that work as treat holders

[](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-crafts-hearts-butterflies/)

[**Heart shaped animals**](https://www.funlittles.com/valentine-craft-paper-creatures/)

[](https://www.funlittles.com/valentine-craft-paper-creatures/)

[**Paper flowers bouquet craft**](https://www.funlittles.com/valentine-day-crafts-and-activities/) and flower shop pretend play

[](https://www.funlittles.com/valentine-day-crafts-and-activities/) That's all folks! 10 simple Valentine's day crafts and art activities to get your children ready and excited for Feb 14th!