Valentine's Day Crafts

Valentine's crafting? Find some tips and ideas for Valentine's Day crafts and gifts to make.

• Foam Roses, a Valentine’s kid craft idea: Use green pipe cleaners to make your flower stems. Cut red foam into small teardrop shapes to form the rose petals. Using white glue, layer the foam pieces in a circle shape and attach to the pipe cleaners.
• Valentine’s Kid Craft Idea – Sweetheart Wreaths. Take a paper plate and cut out the center, so you are left with a 2-inch base for the wreath. Cut out heart shapes in a variety of construction paper colors. Write messages like “Be Mine”, “You’re Sweet”, etc. and glue hearts around the paper plate, creating a wreath shape.
• Rose votives, a Valentines craft idea: Remove the petals from a silk rose. Hot glue petals to glass votive holder, making a rose shape.
• Making handmade Valentines? Stock up on red, pink and white card stock. Stickers, rubber stamps, glitter and markers complete the job.
• Make it easy for kids to create their heart shapes by providing ready-made stencils in a variety of sizes.
• Use thin red licorice to decorate patterns and heart shapes on Valentine cookies. It’s easier than icing.
• Trying to make real red icing for Valentine’s Day? Invest in a red gel food coloring to get a true red color.
• Gather red, white and pink buttons. Cut out a cardboard heart and glue some buttons on in an attractive design to make a unique Valentine.
• Make your Valentine’s Day dinner into a craft: Think heart-shaped pizzas, cheeseburger and ravioli.