17 Valentine's Day Activities for Kids

These awesome Valentine’s Day Activities include crafts, games, science projects, and fun food ideas for kids—easy and simple ways to celebrate the Holiday.

Valentine’s Day Ideas for Kids

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What Makes the Best Valentines Activities?

I think anything that the kids spend time making, creating, enjoying, and exploring qualifies as an activity. Here, you’ll find anything from Valentine’s games to play to Valentine’s Crafts to make, science projects to make, Art Projects to make, and Valentine’s Day Treats to make.

Make a Valentine Garland

Make a Valentine Garland with the kids out of a deck of cards, and heart shapes. An adorable decoration for the house.

Make Valentine Bookmarks

Make bookmarks together for the kids to use or to give out to their friends.

Find out how to make Valentine Bookmarks

Make Bath Salts

Homemade bath salts are a great activity to do with the kids. Use them for bath time or give them out as Valentine’s gifts.

Find Homemade bath salts.

Paint Valentine Rocks

Painted rocks are not only beautiful, but they are a great activity. If it moves you to share your painted rocks, then hide them near a path or sidewalk for others to discover. Finding painted rocks out in nature always brings a smile to someone and creates a little fleeting happiness in their heart. No pun intended. They can then re-hide them for someone else to get the same pleasure from.

Find this Rock Painting activity at Sustain my Craft Habit.

Watercolor Painting Idea

Creating watercolor art for Valentine’s Day is a fun way to spend the holiday with the kids.

Find this watercolor art activity at Crafty Art Ideas

Valentine Slime

Kids will love this bright pink and glittery Vlaneint slime.

Find Valentine Slime at Crafts by Amanda

Fizzy Heart Bombs

Even the little ones can join in for this fizzy stem activity. They can enjoy watching their hearts bubble away.

Find Fizzy Heart Bombs at Taming Little Monsters

Valentine Sensory Bin

Playing in this sensory bin is fun for everyone. It’s inexpensive and easy to put together so kids can enjoy the fun!

Find out how to make this Valentine Sensory Bin at Mama of Minis

Make Homemade Valentine Cards

Owl Valentine Card

This is a cute Valentine to make with the kids. They will have so much fun designing this owl. If you don’t want to give their friends, yet “another” pencil, insert a glow stick, a fun crazy straw, Pixie Stick, or cut the slits a little more, and insert slap bracelets. Unfortunately, the link for this no longer works.

Olaf Valentine

I initially found this printable on Etsy, but it no longer exists. You could easily use cardstock, a marker, and Frozen Olaf Stickers.

Minion Valentine

A Minion Valentine! Find the tutorial at for a Minion Valentine on Crafty Morning.

Make Valentine Treats with the Kids

Valentine Rice Krispies Treats

Awe…:) How sweet would these be at a Valentine’s Day Party or an after-school snack? So sweet. Here’s what I would do to make these fun treats.

Line a baking pan with wax paper. Use Kellogg’s recipe to make rice krispies treats with the kids. Add a few drops of red food coloring to the marshmallow mixture. Fold the rice krispies into the pink marshmallow. Pour into the lined baking pan to form a rectangle shape. Let it cool off for a few minutes. Lift the rectangle-shaped krispies out of the pan with the wax paper under them. Use small heart cookie cutters to make heart shapes.

Use fun cardstock and toothpicks to make arrows.

Place arrow toothpicks into heart treats.

This was initially found on Basic Grey but the link no longer works.

Valentine Oreo Penguin Food Craft

Making Valentine Oreo Penguins is a fun edible activity for kids. It will be fun to watch their Oreo cookie transform into an adorable Valentine penguin. After your done, grabe a glass of milk and enjoy.

Find Valentine Oreo Penguins here.

Heart Shaped Strawberry Ladybugs

Heart shaped Chocolate Covered Strawberry Ladybugs

These little heart-shaped ladybugs are a fun food craft to make with the kids. Make several of them to enjoy as a Valentine snack and enjoy them as you read Hugs and Kisses for the Grouchy Ladybug.

Games

Valentine Balloon Stomp

Stomp on the balloons to reveal words. Put the words together to complete the phrase.

Find Balloon Stomp Valentine Game here.

Human Tic Tac Toe Game

A hilarious and competitive tic-tac-toe game for the kids to play.

Find out how to make this Human Tic Tac Toe

Valentine Bingo Game

This game looks like so much fun to play with the kids. We always love a fun game of bingo. Find these printable Valentine bingo cards at Simply Fresh Designs.