Valentine’s Day with a toddler is a perfect excuse to make some super cute craft! You’ll find no expensive roses here, just very simple, super fun craft and cooking activities for toddlers. We’ve sourced some of the best Valentine’s Day toddler activities to put together our list of 10 Great Valentine’s Day Toddler Activities. Let’s face it – receiving these gifts on Valentine’s Day definitely beats a store bought card and some flowers (although chocolates are always appreciated!).
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1. Crepe Paper Hearts
Ripping and scrunching crepe or tissue paper are excellent fine motor activities. They also form part of this fun and easy Valentine’s Day crepe paper heart. Toddlers will have lots of fun with this craft activity. You can read the instructions here.
2. Valentine’s Day Heart Sun Catcher
This beautiful sun catcher from ‘Moments That Take My Breath Away’ looks fantastic and is surprisingly easy for toddlers to make. Using simple materials, and a bit of glitter for that extra sparkle, your toddler will love making and displaying these heart shaped sun catchers. Find out more about this activity here.
3. Glitter Tissue Paper Hearts
What I love most about this simple craft activity from ‘Housing a Forest’ is that it is so easy, yet so much fun for toddlers. My toddlers tried this Valentine’s Day activity and they really enjoyed it. You can write on the back and give them as cards too! Read more about this toddler craft activity, including a full tutorial here.
4. Valentine’s Day Melted Crayons
If you have more broken crayons than you know what to do with (and let’s face it – who doesn’t!) then you will love this next Valentine’s Day activity for toddlers. ‘Time 2 Save Workshops’ has shared with us how they use old crayons and turn them into new and exciting heart shapes. Any toddler will love drawing with these on Valentine’s Day. Find the instructions here.
5. Marbled Valentine Heart with Shaving Cream
If your toddler is past the stage of putting everything they touch in their mouth, and they love to get MESSY, then this is the activity for them. This marbled valentine heart activity from ‘Meaningful Mama’ looks amazing and is a lot of fun to do. It’s also easier than it looks! Find out how here.
6. Toilet Roll Heart Stamping
You wouldn’t normally link toilet rolls and Valentine’s Day together, but this simple toddler craft from ‘Lazy Moms Blog’ looks really effective, and is a great way to use up all the empty toilet rolls. You can get the full instructions here.
7. Pink Heart Cereal Bars
I have to admit to being a Mum that prefers to give her kids healthy treats (most of the time… not always!) which is why these Pink Heart Cereal Bars from ‘Fit Mama 4 Life‘ are so great. They look amazing, are simple to make and are an excellent healthy treat for toddlers. You can find the full recipe here.
8. Finger Painting Valentine’s Day Cards
People won’t believe these cards from ‘While Wearing Heels’ were made by your toddler – they look so amazing! Definitely better than a store bought card. Despite looking complicated they are actually really easy to make and you can find the full tutorial here.
9. Strawberry Scented Playdough Recipe
Toddlers and Playdough are so well matched. It has to be up there as one of the most popular toddler activities. Just when you didn’t think playdough could get any better we made it strawberry scented, just in time for Valentine’s Day. This makes a great sensory play activity. You can find the full (easy) recipe here.
10. Valentine’s Dipped Rice Krispie Treats
If you have a box of Rice Krispies at home then with a few extra ingredients you and your toddler can make these delicious Valentine’s Dipped Rice Krispie treats from ‘Cooking on the Side‘. Your toddler will love making these and you can pop them in a clear bag with some ribbon to make yummy Valentine’s Day gifts. See the full recipe here
If you want even more activities you toddler’s may enjoy our Snowman Crafts or our Toddler Boredom Busters.
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lifewithsixkids says
Love those Rice Krispie hearts – they look delicious. Definitely one that we will be trying. Thank you for these ideas
Hannah Mums' Days says
Some lush ideas there! The toilet roll has been on my agenda since LAST valentines, seriously I need to get a move on with that – it’s not like there’s never any rolls in the house!! I love the stain glass idea too, my 8 year old would love it as much as my 2 year old!
Thanks for linking up your lovely ideas to #TheList xx
Alex says
Some fab ideas! I’ve been looking to do some valentines crafts with Lamb so will give these a go! Thanks! Alex x #toddlerapprovedtuesday
becky says
Love it! Great list and have pinned this on my personal Valentines board as well as the #ToddlerApprovedTuesday board.
Thanks for linking up, see you next week
Carol says
Thanks Becky!
sue petrie says
VALENTINE’S DIPPED RICE KRISPIE TREATS are what my granddaughters love to make their parents
Leandra says
Such great ideas, thanks so much for sharing #toddlerapprovedtuesday
Jennifer says
LOVE EVERYONE of these! And my 2 year old will too! Hope to get all of the supplies together for this in time!! Thank you for this!
~Jennifer @ http://www.jaysgordon.com
Visiting from #brilliantblogposts 🙂
rachel sinclair says
some fab ideas! love getting crafty for valentines day
adrienne harries says
Valentines day hooray
Mark richardson says
Hope for a better Valentines this year…last year my friend slipped and broke her arm on the dance floor.
Deborah from Mommy Crusader says
These are fantastic activities for Valentine’s Day. I really think the stamping activity is such a great idea! And the treats look yummy and festive. Thanks for the great group of activities. 🙂
Kelly Arnold says
Great ideas, always a fantastic source of inspiration!
Kristine hildebrand says
Great ideas for the grandkids thanks heaps
Alison B says
I love how they are all so simple, great ideas foe me and my son, thank you!
Ali Gilbert says
I love this list! Thanks for always having great ideas for holidays! 🙂