Here’s how to make your baby’s first Valentine’s day special…

Take a peek at simple ideas for playing with hearts at home this Valentine’s Day with your baby.

Hands-On Activities for your Baby and Toddlers to enjoy and create for Valentine’s Day!

It’s hard to believe my littlest one is going to celebrate her second Valentine’s Day. Last year we were taken sweet pictures of her the size of a chocolate box and this year we’re playing with chocolate boxes.

My oldest daughter was 6 months old for her first Valentine’s Day. She was in love with the box of chocolates. Are you ready for some adorable Valentine’s Day Crafts for Babies?

Here are some heartfelt activities that I know your little ones will enjoy!

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Heart Exploration Activity

Babies love to explore!  Let them explore the new things around your home for Valentine’s Day. The empty box of chocolate can be the newest toy that they love to open and shut and open and shut and hide their toys inside.

Heart Cookie Cutters Art Activity

The heart cookie cutter you found on clearance after Valentine’s Day can become a manipulative toy that they love putting in and out of the metal bowl (our favorite toy at our house).

Hearts Cookie Cutter Set

Finding things around the house shaped like hearts and talking about them provides discovery and stimulation and vocabulary for your baby’s development.  

I hope to make a few heart photo blocks this week too, inspired by our Make Your Own Baby Blocks.

Felt Hearts Activity

It’s always fun to give your baby something new to explore. We’re using Felt Hearts for playtime. I cut out some felt hearts in various sizes so that we could explore the hearts. I also gave her a container to keep them in. I made sure to make the hearts in both matching colors and shapes so that she could find the same.

Creating learning opportunities to sort objects and demonstrate new vocabulary; is important at any age. We used words like big, small, same, different, red, pink, and purple.

They would make a cute Valentine gift for your child!

Felt Sweets and Fabric Bowl we received this adorable Handmade Gift for her 1st birthday that she loves. It’s a great idea for Valentine’s Day too for your little ones!

Felt Sheets 12 x 8 Inches, 40 Colors Craft Felt Fabric Sheet Felt Squares

Heart Scribbles Art

We just started making our First Scribbles (check out our post for more info).

This time she had fun using the container to hold her crayons in. She was so engaged in putting the crayons in and out of the crayon holder.

She would take the crayon out and put it onto the paper and scribble and then put it back in. I tried to make a big deal out of when she would put it on the paper so she would start to process what to do. She loved it!

I took her scribbles and cut out some Hearts in various sizes to decorate for Valentine’s Day. Then we took the hearts and glued them onto a piece of paper to create butterflies.

We hung them up on our fridge but you can also make Valentine’s Day cards for Daddy or Grandparents with them.

When we glued them I made sure not to put glue on the end so that their wings could lift up off the paper as though they are flying.

Here’s how our Butterfly Hearts from Scribbles turned out.

Heart Prints with Cookie Cutter

We explored using a heart cookie cutter to make prints with washable paint. I added a few drops of soap into our already washable paint to make it a little bit easier at clean-up time.

Before we started using the cookie cutter I gave her some time the day before to play with it.

It’s important to let your child experience the art supply before expecting them to create something with it.

100 Heart Doilies, 24 Pieces Foam Hearts and 2 Bags of Foam Heart Stickers

Butterfly Valentine with Printable

Create an adorable valentine to share with loved ones for your child’s first Valentine’s Day with this Butterfly Valentine using the outline of their foot.

I’ve included a few cute phrases that you can print out and attach too.  Download here.

Easy Valentine crafts for one year olds!

Love Bug Footprint T-Shirt

I couldn’t resist using her foot one last time to make a little Valentine’s Day T-Shirt to wear.  I just dipped her foot into red fabric paint and put it onto a Onesie. 

Then I took a sponge heart stamp and stamped the wings onto my Love Bug!  Simple but turned out super cute for our little Love Bug.  You could easily make this into a card too.

Valentine Butterfly Craft for Kids

We sent little Valentine’s off to Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles. We made little Valentine Butterflies by tracing my daughter’s foot. Then we attached heart doilies for the wings and eyes to the footprint. We attached this little Valentine phrase too.

I love that both of my girls were able to do this craft together and send them off to family.

Baby’s First Valentine Craft Ideas 

Simple Valentine’s Idea just create a handprint on a heart doily, great for siblings too! Then write a little keepsake message at the bottom. If you want to add a little more heart fun, you can put a foam sticker in the middle of the paper first and then remove it after the fact to leave a heart outline.

Have fun with each of these baby crafts for Valentine’s Day!

Valentine Snack Time for toddlers and preschoolers 

We enjoyed our Heart Breadsticks from Little Hands That Cook with Books. If you haven’t checked it out you might want to for a little special snack for family or friends. My daughter loved the heart bread stick and they were super simple!

Valentine’s Day Shopping List for your Baby’s First Valentine’s Day

• Doilies Multipack Valentine
• 3 Piece Hearts Cutter Set

  

• Tulip Soft Fabric Paint Kit
• Crayola Washable Kid’s Neon Paint Set
• Steel Fun Pail, Hot Pink
• Acrylic Felt Value Pack – Red, Fuchsia, Dark Pink, White

Valentine’s Day Board Books for Babies and Toddlers

Don’t forget to add a special Valentine’s Day Board Book to your fun too! Here’s our favorite…

Hope you enjoy this special time with your baby. Take the moment to really see your baby and loved ones. Validate them and express to them that they are a person who’s important to you. Taking the time to say “I Love You” with hugs and kisses and smiles.

I promise you, your child will love you forever for those moments and grow up happy, confident and loved!

You know what’s best for your child and are your child’s first and most important teacher.

Looking for more ways to have fun on Valentine’s Day with your child?  Check out our 101+ Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids!  

Click here for more Baby Activities 

The Educators’ Spin On It Activities are suggestions to play with your child with together. Please use at your own risk and provide adult supervision at all times.

I’ve gathered up some of my favorites to share with you as you welcome the new month. The activities focus on Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, Groundhog Day and even Black History Month.

Be sure to grab your Printable After School Planner!

Before you dive in… Sign up now for our free February Activity Calendar for kids!

February Activities for Elementary School Ages After School

This list of activities for February with your child are packed with quick and easy ways to enhance your child’s learning and creativity at home with you.

• Groundhog’s Day Poem and Craft 
• 100th Day of School Activities 
• Winter Virtual Field Trips for Kids
• President’s Day Activities 
• Counting to 100 for 100 days of School

• 20 Adorable Homemade Valentine’s Day Cards 
• Winter Birds Valentine Card Craft
• 101 Valentine’s Day Crafts and Activities 
• Color Words Activities with Hearts 
• 30+ Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids 

• Acts of Kindness Wreath 
• Heart Healthy Fun for Mommy and Me 
• Valentine’s Day Books for Kids 
• Heart Shaped Breadsticks
• Heart Shaped Cake Balls
• Heart Shaped Pretzel Candy
• Heart Shaped Pancakes

• Chinese New Year Ideas for Kids 
• Chinese New Year Books
• Chinese Dragon Vase Painting Project
• Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt

• Martin Luther King Jr. Activity Ideas
• Diverse Books in your Home Library 
• Build an Inventors Box for Kids

• Football Themed Appetizers the Kids Can Make
• Football Themed Activities for Kids
• Indoor Movement Games for Snow Day
• 15 Ways for Kids to Spend More Time Outside

• Strawberry STEM Challenge
• Pancake Math Activity
• Ladybug Science Experiment
• Ladybug Science with Kids at Home
• Virtual Field Trips for Kids

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February Books for Kids

You can find out top pick of Valentine’s Day Books here.

Sign up now for our free February Activity Calendar for kids!

Mommy Moment…
10 Reasons Why I Love Celebrating Valentine’s Day with Kids 

For more ideas for School Ages visit our Activity Guide for After School

Did you miss January’s Planner, grab it now! You can also get our March Planner and April Planner to get ready early!

What are you doing for February? Share your ideas in the comments below in the comments

Let’s get started on these Homemade valentines for classmates!

It’s no secret we’re a big fan of using Pinterest for searching for cool things for the holidays. Valentine’s Day is one of those special times.

We shared our favorite 30+ Valentine Activities for Kids and now we’ve gathered up our favorite pins for Valentine’s Day Cards for kids to create for a loved one or a whole class full in little time.

Are you ready to see the variety of options for DIY valentine cards for classmates?

Homemade Valentines Day Card Ideas

1. Create a simple popcorn treat.

Try it: Popcorn Valentine via Pinterest

Image Source Birds Party Blog

2. Send your classmates into orbit with this Earth Themed Valentine.

Try it: You Send My Heart Into Orbit via Pinterest

Image Source Nellie Bellie

3. Focus on friendship with classmates using lifesavers.

Try It: Life Saver Valentine Printable via Pinterest

Image Source Makely Home

4. A quick budget-friendly idea for your littlest schools of fish!

Try it: Fish Bowl Themed Valentine via Pinterest Source

Image Source Bliss Bloom Blog

5. Are you hooked on sending non-candy treats? This might be a catch for you.

Try it: Goldfish Valentine Printable via Pinterest

Image Source One Crafty Place

6. Share a fun alternative to candy with Orange or Apple Treats for Friends.

Try It: Printable Fruit Valentines via Pinterest

Image Source Craftaholics Anonymous

7. Sharing Valentines that inspire crafts can be a welcomed break from sweets.

Try it: Playdough Lolipop Valentines

Image Source Mama Miss

8. Colorful Heart Crayons are a fun treat to make with your child.

Try it: Melted Heart Crayons and Printable

Image Source The Long Thread

9. DIY Bead Penguin Bracelets are a gift that welcomes creativity.

Try It: Penguin Bracelet Idea via Pinterest

Image Source The Educators’ Spin On It

10. Bubbles can be an active treat that are fun to share with friends.

Try it: Valentine Bubbles Printable via Pinterest

Image Source U-Create

11. Sharing Toy Animals can be a bit Playful!

Try it: Printable Animal Themed Valentines  via Pinterest

Image Source Sweet C’s

12. Do you have a special “Love Bug” at school?

Try it: Printable Bug Jar Valentines via Pinterest

Image Source Dandee Designs

13. Finding your inner Pirate can be GRRRRRReat!

Try it: Printable Pirate Valentine via Pinterest

Image Source Mer Mag

14. Quick and simple this valentine will make your friend’s hearts glow.

Try it: Glow Stick Valentine via Pinterest

Image Source Delia Creates

15. “I Mustache You a Question” who wouldn’t love playing with this valentine?

Try it: Printable Mustache Valentine via Pinterest

Image Source I Can Teach My Child

16. Tell your friends “Tweet Tweet, I think You’re Sweet” by creating Winter Heart Themed Birds

Try it: Winter Birds Valentines via Pinterest

Image Source The Educators’ Spin On It

17. Sharing a valentine that extends past the day and into their garden keeps friendships growing!

Try it: Valentine Seeds for Friends via Pinterest

Image Source Buggy and Buddy

18. Who wouldn’t love to receive an Erupting Volcano Valentine?

Try it: Volcano Valentine via Pinterest

Image Source Fun at Home with Kids

19. Sharing a special Loom Rainbow Bracelet is a great way to use up all those rubber bands.

Try it: Rainbow Loom Valentine via Pinterest

Image Source Nest of Poises

20. Quick and simple Valentine and pencil will be just “write”!

Try it: Printable Valentine with Pencils via Pinterest

Source Positively Splendid

Looking for something for your child? Use these free Printable Valentine Love Notes for Kids to tell them they are loved and valued in the month of February or all year.

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Valentine’s Day Cards for Class from Amazon

Short on Time? Here are a few Valentine’s Day Cards with Toys you can choose from on Amazon and have delivered to your door step.

Valentine’s Day Ideas on Pinterest

Creating Valentines’ Day Cards with kids can be a lot of fun so be sure to include them in the production line of these cards. We’ll be on the lookout all season long for new ideas for Valentines’ Day Card.  Be sure to follow our Gift Ideas Pinterest Board and Winter Projects and Crafts for more ideas for cards and Crafts too!

Don’t miss our most popular post about Valentine’s Day Activities for babies & toddlers for your littlest ones! 

The most adorable homemade Valentines for classmates ideas!

Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids

Be sure to stop by our Valentine’s Day posts featuring activities for the kids to do for at home or even at school.

• 30+ Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids 
• Valentine’s Day Books for Kids 
• Valentine’s Day Alphabet Games 
• 101 Valentine’s Day Activities for Play and Learning 
• Recipe for Heart Shaped Cake Pops

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Top 40 Valentine’s Day Books for Kids

We created a few selections of lists based on age groups for your Valentine’s Day Book Selection.

Add with a little heart-shaped object for the perfect gift your a little to celebrate this special Valentine’s Day.

Just click on the Book Images and it will take you to Amazon for easy shopping!

Board Books About Valentine’s Day for Younger Children

These books are ideal for babies and toddlers since they are sturdy board books.

Little Blue Truck’s Valentine by Alice Schertle

The Littlest Valentine by Brandi Dougherty

Tiny T. Rex and the Perfect Valentine by Jonathan Stutzman

Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse! (If You Give…)

Where Is Baby’s Valentine?: A Lift-the-Flap Book

My Fuzzy Valentine (Sesame Street)

Elmo’s World: Love! (Sesame Street) (Sesame Street(R) Elmos World(TM))

Elmo’s Valentine (Sesame Street) (A Chunky Book(R))

Maisy’s Valentine Sticker Book

Max’s Valentine (Max and Ruby)

Baby Touch and Feel I Love You

The Dinosaurs Valentine’s Day by Jessica Brady

Counting Kisses

Llama Llama I Love You

Love from The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

BOOK ACTIVITY IDEA: These hands on Valentines Day Activities are perfect for your babies and toddlers.

Books About Valentines’ day for Older Children

Love Monster by Rachel Bright

In My Heart: A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek

Mirabel’s Missing Valentines by Janet Lawler

The Valentine Express

Splat the Cat: Funny Valentine

Day It Rained Hearts

Amelia Bedelia’s First Valentine

Fancy Nancy: Heart to Heart

The Night Before Valentine’s Day

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose!

Biscuit’s Valentine’s Day

Be My Valentine, Amelia Bedelia

Clifford’s Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day Fun! (Max and Ruby)

One Heart (Valentine Counting Books)

Ruby Valentine Saves the Day

I Spy With My Little Eye Valentine’s Day: A Fun Guessing Game Book

The Biggest Valentine Ever by Steven Kroll

Love from the Crayons by Drew Daywalt

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose! by Lucille Colandro

Hug Machine by Scott Campbell

Lola Dutch I Love You So Much by Kenneth Wright

BOOK ACTIVITY IDEA: After you read a Valentine story you can create a special Valentine for your child’s friends or classmates. Here’s 20+ Homemade Valentine Ideas.

You could also make a special Valentine’s Day reading nook with this Dollar Tree Valentine’s Day Garland.

Books About Valentine’s Day

This collection of books focuses more on explaining the holiday of Valentine’s day to your child or students.

Celebrating Valentines Day: My Special Valentines

The Story of Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day (Holidays and Celebrations)

Valentine’s Day Is

Valentine’s Day

The 12 Days of Valentine’s

BOOK ACTIVITY IDEA: We put together a collection of 101+ Valentine’s Day Activities for activity ideas to do with these books.

Books About Love for Kids

Valentine’s Day is such a special time to share with your child. Here are my TOP 10 Reasons I love sharing Valentine’s Day with my child. My answers may surprise you.

Focusing on stories about LOVE can make it even more special. Here are our favorite books about love.

Guess How Much I Love You

Love You Forever

On the Night You Were Born

I Love You Through And Through

You Are My Sunshine

A Kiss for You

Daddy Hugs 1 2 3

Mommy Hugs (Classic Board Books)

Lilly’s Chocolate Heart

I Am Love: A Book of Compassion by Susan Verde

One Love by Cedella Marley

Plant a Kiss

Love Is: by Diane Adams

Crocodiles Need Kisses Too by Rebecca Colby

BOOK ACTIVITY IDEA: Add a little Valentine’s Day Snack to your book fun with these 12+ Valentine Snack Recipes.

Send a Love Books Page

Want to make your book extra special? Include a few budget friendly activities with your Valentine’s Day Books
and make a Love Books Gift! 

For some crafty ideas and games to go along with these books, check out these 101+ Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids!

101+ Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids

Here’s how…

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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and here’s a special way to show your love with heart shaped pancakes. This week is LOVE week at the weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids.  I thought it would be such fun to plan a special Valentine’s Day Breakfast to go along with our featured book The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond.

Plus a fun addition to our Pancake Activities for Preschool Unit

BUY NOW: The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond

In the story, one day it rains hearts, and the main character Cornelia Augusta catches them. She realizes that the hearts are perfect for making valentines. Each heart is special in its own way, and she knows exactly who to send them to: her animal friends. This book is an adorable way to spark creativity and thoughtfulness towards those you love!

It’s what inspired our Valentine Themed Pancakes for my loved ones.  You’re going to love making these heart shaped pancakes with your child

Easy Heart Shaped Pancakes Recipe

Ingredients

• Pancake Mix or your favorite Pancake Recipe

Materials 

• Plastic Squeeze Condiment Bottles
• Neon Gel Food Color Set  
• Electric Griddle 

Directions for Easy Heart Shaped Pancakes

Read the story The Day It Rained Hearts and then get ready for some heart shaped fun!

1. Preheat the Electric Griddle or Pan. I prefer using the griddle for making pancakes and especially when I cooking with my kids.  That was we can move it around to make it convenient for working on a kitchen step stool.

2. Mix together ingredients to form pancake batter with your child.  Have your child use the measuring cups and spoons to be a part of kitchen learning with you.

3. Once the pancake batter is mixed divide it into a smaller bowl if you want to add  Food Color. We choose Purple and Pink for our colors.  Add a few drop, it doesn’t take much and then gentle mix in.

4. Now pour the colored pancake mix into the Plastic Squeeze Condiment Bottles.

5. Use the color pancake batter in the bottle to hand form a heart on the heated up electric griddle.  Now make a bunch more.  These cook far quicker than normal pancakes to be prepared to flip quickly.

6. So make a solid heart shape just draw the shape of a heart and then go back and fill it in with more batter.

7. Get creative a make your own XOXO or a special Valentine message.

Additional Options for Heart Shaped Pancakes or even heart shaped Eggs for your Valentine’s Day Breakfast!

• Metal Heart Forms for Pancakes and Eggs
• Silicon Heart Forms for Pancakes & Eggs 

If you like this recipe idea be sure to check out our post about Valentine’s Day Snack for Kids to Make and Eat.  It includes ideas like Heart Shaped Breadsticks Recipe. You might want to add a few  Foam Hearts  & Fishing line or ribbon and hang around the room or from the light above your kitchen table.  We used these plastic heart containers  and then did a Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt

Here’s a more few Valentine book ideas to go along with these heart shaped pancakes.

Books about Love for Preschoolers

• Happy Valentine’s Day Mouse!
• Llama Llama I Love You 
• The Biggest Valentine Ever 
• Guess How Much I Love You 
• Love You Forever 
• Bunny Roo, I Love You
• The I Love You Book 
• In My Heart: A Book of Feelings 
• One Love 
• Love from the Very Hungry Caterpillar 

Here’s a list of my favorite Valentine’s Day Books for Kids 

We are so excited about all of these ideas for even more love themed fun!

Love Themed Activities for Preschoolers

Check out the other Heart activities below

• How to Make a Simple Matching Game for Preschoolers – Mama Smiles
• Raining Hearts Name Craft – Still Playing School
• Broken Hearts Number Bonds – Rainy Day Mum
• Love Heart Number Line – Adventures and Play
• Hearts Sensory Bin-The Moments at Home
• Easy Heart Shaped Pancakes -The Educators’ Spin On It (That’s here) 
• Preschool STEM: Valentine’s Tower – Preschool Powol Packets
• Raining Hearts Viscosity Experiment – Inspiration Laboratories
• Coding for Kids: The Day it Rained Heart – JDaniel4’s Moms 
• Prewriting Valentine’s Day pack – Kori at Home
• The Day It Rained Hearts Process Art – Artsy Momma 
• Easy Heart Painting with Cookie Cutters from Messy Little Monsters 
• Throw a Love Fest | Kindness Party for Kids- Toddler Approved

Here’s some additional ideas for Valentine’s Day with Kids…

Valentine’s Day is a wonderful time of the year to tell the people in your life how much they mean to you. Make time this season to craft with and for your kids.

ENJOY! And stop by to let us know which ones are your favorites for your Valentine’s Day fun !

Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids!

12 Valentine Snacks for Kids to Make and Eat

My kids love picking out a book and making a snack with the same theme! Valentine’s day is the perfect time for little hands to cook with books!  

Here is a collection of Valentine’s Day snacks for kids to make and eat and some books to go with them!

Heart Shaped Candy Treats Recipe

Heart Shaped Cake Balls Recipe

Easy Heart Shaped Pancakes

15 Quick & Easy Valentine’s Day Crafts

Let your children get creative this Valentine’s Day with these super cute and EASY 15 minute Valentine’s Day Crafts for kids.

Great for after-school crafting or as an art station at school.

10 Valentine’s Day Sensory Activities

Activate your senses with this collection of hands-on, Valentine’s Day Sensory Activities.  

Try one when your child gets home from school or make a WHOLE bunch and host a Valentine’s Day sensory play date!

15 Valentine’s Day Busy Bags

Create this fun Valentine themed Busy bags to do with your child for the holiday. Here are 15 ideas that are made from items you have around the house.

16 Valentine’s Day Learning Activities for Kids to Make and Do

Big kids still need time to explore materials, express their creativity and celebrate the season, so I look for activities that are fun, hands-on, have a Valentine’s Day theme and still sneak a little learning in.  

Here are our top picks for Valentine’s Day Learning Activities for Kids to Make and Do!

20 Valentine Card Ideas for School

Tips on how to create 20 adorable homemade Valentines for kids to bring to their classmates, all inspired by Pinterest. With a printer and a few creative ideas, you can make one of a kind Valentines that your child will enjoy making for their friends. Plus many are candy-free valentines!

Let’s get started on these Homemade valentines for classmates!

Hands-on Activities for Babies for Valentine’s Day

Playful ideas for your baby’s first Valentine’s Day. These hands-on Valentine’s Day Activities for your baby or toddler will make your heart melt and create keepsakes to treasure and share with loved ones.

Here’s how to make your baby’s first Valentine’s Day special…

5 Valentine’s Day Activities for Toddlers

Valentine’s Day is such a special day to share with the littlest member of your family!  I know that my toddler sure has a special place in my heart.  Words cannot even express how much I love this little guy.  

This holiday is a great time to tell those we love how much they mean to us.  It is also a way to reconnect with our loved ones.

30 Valentine’s Day Crafts

Valentine’s Day is a special time with kids. Providing opportunities to create colorful hearts and decorate the house with them or even sending them off to loved ones. Here are 30+ Valentine’s Day crafts and activities for kids.

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12 Valentine’s Day Picture Books

• Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse! (If You Give…)
• Pete the Cat: Valentine’s Day Is Cool
• The Biggest Valentine Ever
• Fancy Nancy: Heart to Heart
• Splat the Cat: Funny Valentine
• Love Monster
• Where Is Baby’s Valentine?: A Lift-the-Flap Book
• The Story of Valentine’s Day
• Pinkalicious: Pink of Hearts
• Amelia Bedelia’s First Valentine
• Love from the Crayons
• Llama Llama I Love You
• Day It Rained Hearts
• Doc McStuffins My Huggy Valentine
• In My Heart: A Book of Feelings (Growing Hearts)

Hope you have a special time with your loved ones this Valentine’s Day with these adorable Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Making food for someone else is a way of expressing your love, especially when it’s shaped like a heart!

Seeing your kids’ faces light up when they receive heart-shaped treats is priceless. The joy and happiness it brings to them make the effort and time you put into making these special foods worthwhile.

Heart-shaped foods are an adorable and tangible way to communicate your love for your kids. The effort and creativity you put into making these special treats will surely bring a smile to their faces.

Heart Shaped Recipes for Kids

Sometimes it’s just the serving dish or the shape of food that makes it even more fun and meaningful for child and let’s face it adults too. I know your kids will love a few of these recipes I’ve found for you in case you’re still looking for inspiration! 

It’s a great way to engage kids and get them excited about Valentine’s Day. Involving them in the process of making heart-shaped foods can create lasting memories and a sense of accomplishment.

So find something red or heart shaped and it’s now a Valentine Meal!

Strawberry Heart Parfait

Heart Bread Sticks

Heart Pancakes for Valentine’s Day

Heart Shaped Pretzels

Heart Pizzas

Heart Shaped Cake Balls

Heart Thumbprint cookies

Gingerbread Heart Pancakes with Heart Strawberries

Heart Rice Krispie Treats with Sprinkles

Chocolate Dipped Clementine Hearts

Heart Shaped Shortbread Cookies

Just in case you’re looking for more Valentine’s Themed Recipes, here are a few fun things I found that you might enjoy making with your child for Valentine’s Day!

Muffin Tin Themed Lunch  from Muffin Tin Mom

Pinkalicious Porrige from Super Healthy Kids

Valentines Muffin Tin Meal from Rockabye Butterfly

Broccoli & Carrot Biscuits from Super Healthy Kids

Heart Shaped Egg from Bon Appetit

Heart Shaped Cinnamon Rolls from Pinch My Salt

Heart French Toast from Haute and Healthy Living

Heart Fruit Kababs from Hello Yummy

Heart Shaped Fruit Salad from Little Wonder Days

Cheese Heart Crackers from Strong Start

Heart Shaped Bread from Rhodes Bread

Heart Ravioli from Vegalicious

Heart Shaped Cake  from About.com

Strawberry 2 Ingredient Fudge by Cookies and Cups

Candy Coated Oreo from Muffin Tin Mom

Heart Shaped Strawberry Scones by Pooks Pantry

If you’re still trying to find something special, we have a Cooking with Kids Board on Pinterest too with more ideas. Hope you enjoy making something special with your child today for Valentine’s Day.

You may also enjoy these kids activities…

Here’s the easy recipe for heart shaped cake balls. 

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Heart Shaped Cake Balls Recipe

Make these adorable heart shaped cake balls for a loved one or even classmates this Valentine’s Day.  All you need are a few supplies to get you started for this handmade Valentine’s Day Candy Treat!

Supplies & Ingredients for Heart Shaped Cake Balls

• Heart Shaped Candy mold
• White chocolate candy melts
• Milk chocolate candy melts (optional)
• Candy colors (make sure you don’t use regular food coloring or icing colors) Also, note that you get a much nicer shade of pink using pink candy color rather than just mixing in red candy color to your white chocolate.
• toothpicks
• Fork, spoons & small bowls
• Little Debbie Zebra Cakes snack cakes or other store bought frosted snack cakes

Instructions for Heart Shaped Cake Balls

1. Mash up 1 package of 2 Zebra Cakes until it forms a dough.

2. Shape the dough into small heart shapes, sized to fit inside your Candy mold with room to spare.

3. Melt about 4 ounces of chocolate per package directions (typically you microwave it for 1 minute at 50% power, and then stir and continue to heat it for 30 second intervals until it’s smooth)

4. Dip a toothpick in the pink candy color and stir it into melted white chocolate. Repeat with a clean toothpick until you get your desired shade. (For white candy skip this step) 

5. Spoon the melted candy into the bottom of your heart molds. We filled about 4 of them at a time. Tap the mold on the counter to get the bubbles out.

6. Before the candy sets too much, set in your cake ball heart on top as shown.

7. Spoon candy on top of the heart dough, and again tap the mold on the counter both to spread the candy over the dough and to remove any air bubbles.

8. Repeat until you’ve filled all your molds, and then put it in the freezer for about 5 minutes to harden.

9. Gently pop the candy out of the molds – if it doesn’t come out easily put it in the freezer a bit longer. Trim off any excess from the sides.

10. Now to decorate! Make smaller amounts of contrasting colored chocolate as in step 4 above. Lay the molded candy out on waxed or parchment paper and drizzle melted chocolate over it with a small spoon.

If you want sprinkles, add them while the drizzle is still melty, so that they’ll
stick.

Looking for a special Valentine’s Cake to serve? Try these adorable Vintage Heart Cake! You don’t need a specialty pan as it’s super easy to create the heart shape using two 8″ pans using only 2 simple cuts.

TIP: Be sure to let them harden completely before putting them into gift bags (it doesn’t take long).

Who will you give your heart shaped cake balls to for Valentine’s Day?

Valentine’s Day Treats for School

These heart shaped cake balls would be so much fun to make and bring to school for a class party or for a playdate with friends this Valentine’s Day.  For more Valentine’s Day Recipes to our Heart Shaped Pretzel Candy Recipe  or our Heart Shaped Breadsticks Recipe.

Looking for more Valentine’s Day fun? Go check out our 20+ Valentine’s Day Card Ideas for School inspired by our favorites on Pinterest!

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Here’s how to make these heart shaped pretzel candy treats!

Heart Shaped Pretzel Candy Recipe

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Supplies & Ingredients

• Mini Pretzels
• White chocolate candy melts
• Milk chocolate candy melts (optional)
• Candy colors (make sure you don’t use regular food coloring or icing colors) Also, note that you get a much nicer shade of pink using pink candy color rather than just mixing in red candy color to your white chocolate.
• Sprinkles (optional)
• Toothpicks
• Spoons
• Small bowls
• Parchment paper or waxed paper
• Small cutting board or tray

To create this Valentine’s Day Treat following these simple directions.  Your child should be able to help you in the process of making them based on their age.  Younger kids can do the sprinkles and drizzling steps. 

Older kids should be able to help with the whole process from spooning the melted chocolate candy to decorating this heart shaped treats for kids.

Looking for more sweet and fun heart-shaped recipes, try these adorable Valentines Day Spritz Cookies.

Instructions for Heart Shaped Pretzel Candy

1. Melt about 4 ounces of chocolate per package directions (typically you microwave it for 1 minute at 50% power, and then stir and continue to heat it for 30 second intervals until it’s smooth)

Note: If you’re using Milk chocolate, it’s important to temper the chocolate – stir in un-melted pieces to the hot melted chocolate mixture. This will help the chocolate remain shiny after it hardens.

2. Dip a toothpick in the pink Candy colors and stir it into melted white chocolate. Repeat with a clean toothpick until you get your desired shade. [For white candy skip this step]

3. Put a strip of Parchment paper or waxed paper onto a small cutting board, and set a pretzel down on it.

4. Spoon the melted candy onto the pretzel as shown. Then, use the toothpick to sweep around the edges forming a heart shape.

TIP: It may take you a few pretzels to get the hang of it. If they look ugly you’ll just have to eat them!

5. Tap the cutting board on your work surface to spread the candy out further and to get the air bubbles out.

6. If you want to decorate with sprinkles, add them before the chocolate hardens. Since these are pretzels, you can even decorate with a little kosher salt or extra coarse salt from a salt grinder – just use it in moderation. Yum!

7. Repeat with several more pretzels. When your cutting board is full, put it in the freezer for about 5 minutes to harden.

8. If you want to drizzle on stripes in a contrasting color, melt some additional chocolate as in steps 1 & 2 above. Lay the candy pretzels out on waxed or parchment paper and drizzle melted chocolate across it with a small spoon. It helps to start the drizzle on the paper and then continue across the candy to the paper on the other side.

Valentine’s Day Treat for Kids

There are so many ways to decorate these delicious Valentine snacks for the classroom or for a playdate with friends with your child.  I can’t wait to see how your heart shaped pretzel candy treats turn out!  Happy Valentine’s Day!

Try these heart shaped cake balls too!

Looking for more Valentine’s Day fun?

You might like our resource of 101 FUN Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids. There’s a few more Valentine’s Day Recipes there too for your little chef.

Making food in the shape of hearts for Valentines day is a hit with most kids. Here’s an idea for creating heart shaped bread with kids. We’ve shared these with my child’s class and it’s a big hit and an easy way to stay away from sugary sweets that we typically see at holiday parties.

Making Heart Shape Breadsticks with Kids

We are learning about the Grains Group in our Little Hands that Cook with Books Balanced Eating Fun Series!  It’s getting close to Valentine’s Day so I thought it would be to include a heart into the lesson so we’re making heart shaped breadsticks.

My daughter was very excited to make her very own heart breadsticks so I decided to let her use the premade dough. The next time we do this we’ll make it whole wheat breadstick recipe to add some more Grains into our diet. I want her to know the process of making bread from scratch. 

You could easily do heart shaped pretzels too! 

Here’s what we used to make our heart shaped breadsticks.

Heart Shaped Breadsticks

Ingredients

• Refrigerated Breadsticks from Pillsbury
• butter
• garlic salt (or desired herb)
• Parmesan cheese

Directions

1. Separate dough into 12 strips
2. Take two strips and twist and join to create heart shape on baking sheet
3. Brush with melted butter
4. Sprinkle with herbs and parmesean cheese
5. Bake at 375 for 12 minutes
6.  Enjoy with someone you LOVE!

Books About the Grains Group

The Grain Group by Mari C. Schuh

The Great Grains Group  by Marcie Aboff

While our breadsticks were cooking we had a Lesson about the Grains Group.I had her find items in the pantry that she thought would belong into the Grains Group.  We laid them out onto the counter and labeled them with the premade labels I made. They included words like bread, cereal, rice, pasta, popcorn, crackers. 

Once we found the items we played a quick game to decide if they belonged into the Whole Grains Group or Refined Grains Group. I pulled out some pictures I printed of the different whole grains, here’s the site. 

Ideally I would like to have containers full of whole grains too for a more hands on approach. Then we tried to find items in our pantry that contained whole grains. Here’s the list of Whole Grain Words to look for that we used that you can use with your little ones!

Whole Grains and Refined Grains Game

What is a Portion?  

Now that my own child is 5 years old I felt it was time for her to learn about how to read the label on boxes and understand what a “Portion Size” is.  We took some of our favorite snacks and read the label and served them into containers to truly understand what is in a serving.  I think it was a great learning opportunity for her to visually comprehend how much she needs of some of her favorite snacks.  And to understand that at least half of our grains each day should be from the Whole Grains group.

Grains Group Activities

• Word Search from Nourish Interactive
• Coloring Sheet of the Grains Group
• Sort the Grains
• Let’s Make Bread
• Whole Grain Picture and Word Sort

Here’s a few other Heart Shaped Recipes to make with your child.

Grain Recipes for Kids to Make

Here’s an additional Little Hands that Cook with Books Lesson about the Grains Group!

• Teddy Bear Biscuits
• Teddy Bear Food Group Book with Printable Words
• Moon Bread Recipe
• Polar Bead Biscuits
• Heart Shaped Pancakes
• Homemade Noodles
• Coconut Bread
• Orange Surprise Strawberry Jam Muffins
• Salted Caramel Pumpkin Muffins
• Raspberry Coconut Muffins

We brought our Heart Breadsticks to a Valentine’s Day Playdate.  The kids loved them, even my baby girl!

Next time we’re going to learn how is flour made and how bread is made?  Who better to teach us than The Little Red Hen. Until then enjoy…

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