Valentine's Day Crafts and Homemade Gift Ideas

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.

how to make a handprint with a thumbprint heart — Kissing Handprint Craft

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

Pink and red salt dough handprint and footprint heart keepsake craft kids can help make — Salt Dough Handprint and Footprint Craft and Gift Idea

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 magnet crafts and gift ideas in a rainbow of colors — A Rainbow of Thumbprint Heart Magnets

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!

Photos of fingerprint and thumbprint art crafts and gifts that kids can make. — Thumbprint Heart Crafts and Gift Ideas

More Heart Crafts and Gift Ideas

Handmade heart crafts, such as those listed below, also make lovely handmade Valentine’s day gifts from kids.

Slow falling hearts sensory bottle makes a great gift idea for Christmas, Valentine's Day, and anniversaries. Discovery bottles like this are commonly used for no mess sensory play, as a calm down jar, or a meditation technique for children. They are just as effective for adults. — Hearts Falling in Love Sensory Bottle

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

Finished picture necklace photo jewelry tutorial — DIY Personalized Picture Necklaces Photo Jewelry

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.

Hand sewn felt lovebirds in pink and red, and blue and yellow. — Lovebirds Sewing Project with Pattern

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 Valentine's Day crafts for kids — Love Bug Crafts

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!

Thumb-buggy loves you Valentine's day card ideas — Fingerprint Love Bugs

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!

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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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Comments

Kelly Mahan says
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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!
- nell says
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  Thanks, Kelly!
  I scoured the internet for the best of the best, I’m so glad you like them all. Enjoy! 🙂
coolessay.net says
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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)
- nell says
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  Yes! I agree… homemade DIY gifts are the best gifts! Your jar sounds amazing!

Valentine’s Day Crafts and Handmade Gift Ideas