Valentine's Day is such a fun holiday for kids. It's made for sugar and silly crafts. Today I'm sharing three of my favorite kid-friendly Valentine's Day activities. While these are easy enough for a two-year old, I think older kids would enjoy them too (and the end results might be a little prettier).
Hope you have as much fun doing these with your Valentines as I did with Max.
Giant Rice Krispie Kiss
Every Valentine's Day, my mom used to give my brother, sister, and me a giant rice krispie treat disguised as a Hershey's Kiss. I loved this tradition as a kid and decided to start it with Max. Making rice krispie treats and then shoving them into a funnel is the perfect kitchen activity for a two year old.
You'll need:
A batch of rice krispie treats (my ooey gooey recipe below)
A small funnel
Margarine or butter
Foil
Paper and pen
Grease the funnel and your hands with butter or margarine. Pack the treats into the funnel.
Turn them out onto parchment paper.
Wrap in foil and add a little paper tag.
Rice Krispie Treats
1/4 cup butter
1 16 oz bag big marshmallows
1 teaspoon vanilla
5 cups Rice Krispies
Melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the marshmallows and stir fairly constantly until they melt. Add the vanilla and stir. Mix in the Rice Krispies. (These will be more gooey and marshmallow-y than typical Rice Krispie treats...just the way I like them.)
Heart Attack
Growing up, my mom had a fun idea for letting people know we were thinking of them. We'd cut out tons of paper hearts and "heart attack" their door. I decided to repurpose this idea as a toddler-friendly way to decorate our front door for Valentine's Day. I had tons of die cut hearts left over from some other project, but you could make it even more crafty and cut out your own. Just make sure to use paint-friendly tape.
You'll need:
Paper hearts
Tape
A door (obviously)
Tape hearts all over the door.
Done! (That's my kind of craft.)
Like his mom, my toddler is not a crafter (see below for proof). For him to do a project, it needs to be simple with big mess potential--which in this case, he fully achieved.
The idea is to create stamps out of a potato for old-fashioned, homemade Valentines. At our house, this quickly devolved into a finger-painting extravaganza, leaving my kitchen table looking more like a crime scene than a Pinterest-worthy tableau of budding artistry.
However, the card I made turned out pretty cute, giving me hope that this craft could be really cute in the hands of a more crafty mother-son duo.
You'll need:
A potato
1 or 2 bottles of water-based acrylic paint in red or pink
Cardstock
Cut the potato in half. Carve a heart.
Stamp away!
Decide finger painting is way more fun.
Looking for more Valentine's Day ideas? Check out our sequined wreath and embroidered felt hearts.
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