This round-up of handmade Valentine’s Day crafts and is filled with cute keepsake gift ideas that kids can make for parents, and grandparents.
Parents and grandparents love to receive homemade Valentine’s Day crafts and gifts from the children in their lives. Many of these easy gift ideas for Valentine’s Day can also be made by kids for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Grandparents Day, Christmas, or a birthday!
We have put together this list of Valentine crafts and gift ideas to make it easy to find a special homemade keepsake to make with children. If you are looking for something special to make for your sweetheart, check out DIY Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Him, and for Her.
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Valentine Crafts and Gifts Kids Can Make
We have placed each of these cute Valentine craft ideas into categories to make it easy to find the DIY gift that you would like to make.
Scroll down to find Valentine’s day crafts that you can make with your baby, as well as Valentine’s day crafts for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners.
We have also listed quite a few Valentine’s day craft ideas that elementary-aged kids, tweens, and teens can make, such as these easy photograph and thumbprint heart art crafts.
A few of the Valentine crafts listed below are placed into more than one category in order to make it easy to find the type of Valentine keepsake craft that you would like to make. Click on the creator of each Valentine’s day craft and gift idea for the full tutorial.
Invite the kids to help make any of these gift ideas for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, or grandparent’s Day!
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Handprint Crafts and Gift Ideas for Valentine’s Day
- Shell Frames with Handprints
- Salt Dough Hands Keepsake | Learning and Exploring Through Play
- Hands and Photo Heart Keepsake | Teach Me, Mommy
- “These Hands Hold My Heart Forever” Handprint and Footprint Valentine Sign | Scrap Me Baby
- Salt Dough Handprint Frames | Messy Little Monster
- DIY Family Hand Prints | Do It Yourself Fun Ideas
- Kissing Hand Craft – Handprint with a Thumbprint Heart (photo below)
Click over to Valentine’s day art projects to have a look at a few more handprint Valentine’s day crafts and art ideas for kids.
Footprint Crafts and Gifts for Valentine’s Day
- Valentine’s Day Salt Dough Heart Footprint Keepsake | Learning and Exploring Through Play for Red Ted Art
- Salt Dough Footprint Heart | Roaming Rosie for Hub Pages
A few more cute Valentine’s Day footprint art ideas are listed in this awesome round-up of Valentine’s day art projects.
Handprint and Footprint Valentine’s Day Crafts
- Salt Dough Handprint and Footprint Heart Craft (photo below)
- DIY “Love” Sign Handprint and Footprint Valentine Craft | 517 Creations
- Shell Frames with Footprints
Fingerprint Art and Crafts for Valentine’s Day
We have listed a few more Valentine’s Day fingerprint art ideas that you can find in this collection of Valentine’s day art projects.
- Fingerprint Love Bug Card Ideas
- Fingerprint Heart Ornaments | Mum in the Mad House
- Thumbprint Heart Keychain Charms
- Best Fingerprint Art Ideas for Kids
- Fingerprint Heart necklaces
- Thumbprint Heart Magnets (pictured below)
Thumbprint Heart Crafts and Gifts
We have also rounded up a fun collection of Thumbprint Heart Crafts and Gift ideas perfect for Valentine’s Day. Click on the link to see all of the amazing fingerprint Valentine’s day art ideas that kids (and adults) can make!
More Heart Crafts and Gift Ideas
Handmade heart crafts, such as those listed below, also make lovely handmade Valentine’s day gifts from kids.
- Personalized Heart Candle Holders
- Hand-Sewn Heart Beginning Sewing Projects
- Best Heart Art Projects (and Cute Craft Ideas, too!)
- Heart Tree Craft
- Watercolor Surprise Heart Art Painting Idea
- Hanging Heart Prism Suncatcher
- Hearts Falling in LOVE Sensory Bottle (pictured below)
Valentine’s Day Photo Crafts and Gifts
- How to Make Picture Necklaces (pictured below)
- Personalized Photo Keychain Charms
- Hands and Photo Heart Keepsake | Teach Me, Mommy
- Salt Dough Handprint Frames | Messy Little Monster
Love Bird Crafts for Valentine’s Day
Use glass paint to make this simple Lovebirds craft, or, sew a few of these super cute felt lovebirds for Valentine’s day. Love birds are a sweet Valentine’s day gift idea that kids can hand sew with a little help from a parent, caregiver, or teacher.
Sewing felt love birds is not just for kids, feel free to sew one yourself as you assist your children. My 6-year-old (at the time) daughter sewed the red and the yellow lovebirds pictured below, while I sewed the pink and blue ones.
Love Bug Craft and Gift Ideas
Making love bug crafts for Valentine’s Day is a fun activity for kids and adults.
- Heart-Shaped Love Bug Craft
- Best Love Bug Crafts for Kids (pictured below)
Love Bug Cards
You may want to pop over to have a look at these super cute fingerprint love bug card ideas, too! We’ve come up with all sorts of different card messages you can use to make homemade cards for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and a few other occasions, too!
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More Cute Gift Ideas That Kids Can Make for Valentine’s Day
The homemade crafts and gifts listed below would make great gift ideas for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and Grandparents Day, too!
- Handprint Ring Bowl and Jewelry Dish
- Fingerprint Art Magnets
- Four Season Handprint and Fingerprint Tree
- Homemade Gifts That Kids Can Make for Parents and Grandparents
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Homemade Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas and Crafts
Valentine’s day keepsake crafts and gift ideas add a special homemade touch perfect for any occasion!
This unique collection of cute gift ideas that kids can make are perfect for Valentine’s day. Many of these easy Valentine craft ideas would also make great homemade gift ideas for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Christmas, or a birthday.
The Valentine crafts and gift ideas listed above are all keepsake crafts that you can make with the kids. You may also like heart art salt painting and watercolor surprise heart art and this amazing round-up of Valentine’s Day art projects.
If you are looking for something that you can make for your significant other, check out Valentine Gift Ideas for Him, and for Her. We have included both handmade DIY Valentine’s day gifts and, Valentine’s gift ideas available for purchase in the round-up.
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More Fun Valentine’s Day Ideas for Kids
- Heart-Shaped Scavenger Hunt
- Best Valentine’s Day Art Projects
- Surprise Heart Art Watercolor Painting Idea
- Heart Art Salt Painting STEAM
- Gifts for Mom that Will Put You In the Good Book
- Valentine Love Bug Crafts
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These are just so adorable, I’m sure the kids will love making some of these! Thank you for the ideas!
Thanks, Kelly!
I scoured the internet for the best of the best, I’m so glad you like them all. Enjoy! 🙂
When it comes to Valentine’s Day, if you could give your loved ones the world, you would. DIY gifts that come from the heart are as close as it gets. I made a simple jar with 50 scrolls on which wrote reasons why i love my wife. This is awesome when you read this scrolls after 1-2 years past, it’s so nostalgic)
Yes! I agree… homemade DIY gifts are the best gifts! Your jar sounds amazing!
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Some good crafts but homemade are the best from children
I agree, Cool peeps… Homemade crafts make the best gifts from children! Have you tried our thumbprint heart magnets? They are always a hit with mom, dad, and grandparents!