These Valentine's Day Crafts for Kids Will Melt Hearts

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Getting kids crafting is one of the best ways to encourage their creativity and get them off tablets and away from screens. I love Valentine's Day crafts for kids because creating these gives them the ability to make gifts or tokens for the people they hold dear. If you grew up in the '90s, chances are, you did quite a few of these crafts in school — I know that I did. The crafts you did are likely very similar to the ones on this list, save for the fact that these craft kits have all the supplies gathered for you. You don't need to worry if you've forgotten something essential when you craft with your littles — these sets have everything in one place for you. This is not a batteries-on-Christmas scenario. Truly, kits like the ones in this article are the way to go.

Paper crafts dominate this kiddy corner, but cooking sets, sculpture kits, and painting crafts are high up there as well. And while they're not strictly Valentine's Day crafts for kids, friendship bracelet kits that are hugely popular right now thanks to Taylor Swift and her record-breaking tour are, of course, included. Every set on this list will surely make your parental heart flutter when you see your kiddo proudly showing off their creation. Yes, there is some glitter involved, which pretty much every parent hates (myself included), but thankfully, stick vacuums have improved and can pick up any excess fairy dust left behind!

Check out our very favorite Valentine's Day crafts for kids below!

Make Your Own Lantern Heart 3D Light

LED lights are as popular as ever for kids thanks to social media, so why not embrace the teenage and tweenage love of fairy lights by making an illuminated heart-shaped lantern? This light gives any room a technicolor glow thanks to its unique prismatic panels.

The panels, lights, and connections are all included.

Paint your own jewelry box

This DIY jewelry box comes packed to the brim with accessories for your kiddo to run wild with. Gems, paints, glitter, you name it, this kit has it. Your kids can keep this box forever. By forever, I mean that you will keep this box that they painted and covered in the stickers (provided) and whatever they shove in it, in a box, and when they're 30, you will give them that box full of their stuff, and that box will just happen to be inside.

Paper Flower Science Kit

STEM learning meets are in this paper flower science kit. This Valentine's Day craft has everything you need to make 12 flowers with color-changing petals. It uses the science of dye absorption via washable markers and helps kids create beautiful pieces while they learn about how flowers feed from their roots and stems.

DIY Bubble Gum Kit

Not everyone is going to want hearts and flowers on Valentine's Day. Do you know what else is pink and beloved by almost all children? Bubble gum. And now your kids can make it themselves (with adult supervision). This kit comes with everything you need to make the sticky stuff. Make it indoors, but only let them have it outdoors, am I right?

P.S. cooking spray gets it out of hair, and dish soap gets cooking spray out of hair. You're welcome.

4,600-Piece Valentine's Day Bracelet Making Kit

With 4,600 pieces, do you know how many bracelets my daughter and I could make? We could make out almost enough for one section of a Taylor Swift concert. I love how coordinated the colors are. Plus, these beads are thick enough to easily string even if you have longer nails.

Valentines Day DIY Slime Kit with Heart Boxes

Making Valentine's cards is fun and all, but imagine how excited your kid will be to add a packet of DIY slime to their giveaways. The whole class is going to go bananas when they open up these colorful creations. The large slime kit comes with enough goo and add-ins to create 28 different valentines. Your children can customize for their friends to their heart's content, and maybe still have some left over.

3D String Art Kit for Kids

If you've never made 3D string art with your kids, I cannot recommend it enough. Basically, you blow up some mylar balloons (included), soak string in white glue (included) and drape the string over and around the balloon, and leave it until it dries. Then you pop the balloon and voila! You have art. This heart kit also comes with fairy lights and tassels for extra pizazz.

Valentines Day Blondies Deluxe Baking Kit

Make the ultimate Valentine's Day blondies with your kids using this all-inclusive kit. I love Baketivity because the guides they include are so easy to follow, and I've found that even young kids have a good time with them. It's a great and delicious way to learn how to read a recipe and create something great.

Mosaic Heart Stepping Stone

Your little artist will have everything they need to make a Valentine's stepping stone for their fairy garden with this kit. It comes with a stone, six bright paint pots, and a paintbrush. The paints are acrylic and nontoxic, so they're safe for kids. They're also pretty colorfast, keeping their pigment for years.

Geode Canvas Set

If your kids have been on TikTok at all, chances are good they're already obsessed with resin crafts. This kit from STMT comes with everything your kids need — including detailed instructions — to make two pink, aqua, and gold geode coasters with shiny gold flecks.

They could give them away, but really? They'll likely keep these for themselves. (Maybe they'll actually remember to use the coaster if they are the ones who made it.)

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