Welcome back to my blog! Here are a few cheap and/or free activities and crafts for toddlers for Valentine’s Day!
Bee My Valentine
Who doesn’t love kid handprint and footprint art?!? Check out this adorable “Bee My Valentine” craft from The Real Heffern’s YouTube channel here. All of my kids’ footprint art usually just looks like a big blob! I love how Taylor from the Real Hefferns showed how to roll the baby’s foot onto the paper to make the footprint. I can’t wait to do this craft using her awesome tips with my littles for Valentine’s Day!
Touch and Feel Heart
This next activity was created with random art supplies I had around my house! I already had 12 x 12 cardstock sheets in multiple colors, tissue paper, googly eyes, pom poms, pipe cleaners, and glue. I bought some red glitter glue and some foam hearts to make this craft a little more festive!
My daughter was a little young to understand the texture part of this craftivity, so this was really just her decorating a heart, but if your child is a little older, you can go more in depth about the textures and find even more different textured items to add to your heart.
Our textures included the following:
- Pipe Cleaners – Fuzzy
- Googly Eyes – Smooth
- Pom Poms – Soft
- Tissue Paper – Crinkly
- Foam Hearts – Squishy
(Other textures ideas could include items that are bumpy, rough, hard, fluffy, etc.)
As my daughter put each item onto her heart, I told her what the texture was and we talked about how it felt together. She really just kept repeating me and I don’t think she really understood, but she had a lot of fun!
Since she is only two, I had to help a lot with the glue! I would ask her where she wanted to glue things down, and she would point and I would put a little glob of glue for her. You can decide how you want to handle the glue with your child, but keep in mind that most children try to squeeze the entire glue bottle in one spot. You may want to review how to make small dots of glue!
Heart Stickers
This last activity is very easy… STICKERS! Stickers are actually really great for fine motor skills. Simply get a bunch of stickers (we chose hearts for Valentine’s Day) and have your child peel and stick as many as they want on their paper! We used paper shaped as a heart for our stickers.
You can make this more difficult by having your child put stickers on a line to form a letter, number, or shape.
Please be sure to supervise and monitor your child/children during all of these activities.
Hope you enjoy these Valentine’s activities with your littles!
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Please supervise children during all activities.
