Homemade Valentines Cards for Kids

If your kids are making homemade Valentines cards this week, we have some fun ideas to share with you. In this post, you’ll find 10 Terrific Homemade Valentine’s Cards For Kids of all ages to make! The supplies are simple but each card offers a fun, creative process and a unique result. Kids can make these cards for parents for Valentine’s Day, or give them to a special friend. 

10 Valentines Cards for Kids
Easy Valentine’s Cards for Kids to Make

My daycare hooligans have made lots of great Valentine’s cards for their parents over the years, so I thought it would be fun to round up our favourites and put them all right here in one place for you.

Fun and unique art techniques

The nice thing about most of these Valentine’s cards is that they’re made with ordinary household supplies and materials, but they still provide the kids with a fun and creative art experience.

P.S. If your child is looking for a really creative way to send a Valentine’s message to friends or classmates, be sure to check out the paper fortune cookies at the end of the post. They’re super-quick and easy to make, so your kids can make enough for the whole class in no time.

10 Homemade Valentine’s Cards for Kids to Make

Ok! Here we go!

Toilet Roll Stamped Hearts

1. Toilet Roll Stamped Hearts

We used this toilet roll stamping process to make Valentine’s art on a canvas, but your kids could certainly use the same process to decorate a Valentine’s card.

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Making Prints with Styrofoam – Valentine’s Card Idea

2. Styrofoam Stamping Valentines

Styrofoam Printmaking (also known as block printing) is a fantastic way for kids of all ages to make their Valentines cards. No fancy equipment is required. We’ll show you how to do it from start to finish using things you already have around the house.

homemade puffy paint hearts craft for kids
Homemade Puffy Paint Valentines – with 3 kitchen ingredients

3. Homemade Puffy Paint Valentine’s Cards

We made these Puffy Paint Valentines Cards with this simple 3 ingredient recipe. It’s easy to make and it puffs right up when you put it in the microwave.

2 Homemade Valentine's Cards for Kids to Make
Scrap Ribbon Valentine’s Cards & Fabric Scrap Valentine’s Cards

4. Scrap Ribbon Valentine’s Cards

Kids will love exploring the different textures, patterns and colours as they select the ribbons for these scrap ribbon Valentine’s cards. Fine motor skills are strengthened when arranging and gluing the ribbons to the paper.

5. Fabric Scrap Valentine’s Cards:

Similar to our scrap ribbon cards, our fabric scrap Valentine’s cards are really pretty, and make good use of leftover bits of fabric from larger sewing projects.

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Overlapped Hearts Art Valentine’s Card

6. Overlapping Hearts Valentine’s Cards

A wonderful art activity and homemade Valentine’s card all in one. All you need to make our overlapping hearts Valentine’s card is a cardboard roll, a piece of paper and the art medium of your choice (watercolours, crayons, pencil crayons, markers etc.).

Wax resist valentines cards for toddlers
Wax Resist Valentines with Watercolours

7. Wax-Resist Valentine’s Cards

These wax resist Valentine’s cards are a lot of fun to make. Kids love seeing their message magically appear as they swish a paintbrush over the paper. Another fun idea for this card is to have your child prepare the Valentine’s message, and let the recipient paint the card to reveal the message.

Homemade valentines card with hot glue and glitter
Glue Gun and Glitter 3-D Valentine’s Cards

8. 3D Glue Gun and Glitter Valentine’s Cards

Kids who are old enough to use a low-heat glue gun will love making these Glittered 3D Valentine’s Cards. The process is really fun, and hey, kids always love to craft with glitter!

Kid-Made Crayon Resist Valentines Card
Resist Valentines with Crayons and Washable Markers

9. Crayon Resist Valentine’s Cards

The process for making these Crayon Resist Valentine’s cards is similar to the wax resist cards above. The difference is that instead of using paints to reveal the message, we’ve used washable markers. Again, your kids can colour over the message themselves, or they can write their message, and have a friend or family member colour their card to reveal it.

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Paper Fortune Cookies

And lastly, this is my latest favourite when it comes to homemade Valentine’s cards.  These fortune cookie Valentine’s can be made in seconds, and they’re such a fun way for a child to send a Valentine’s message to a friend. All you need is a piece of paper, a glue stick to make these little gems.

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