Creative Ideas for Handmade Valentines Day Decorations

Valentines Day for kids is a great way to show your love and appreciation for them. Celebrate the season of love with shared activities and gifts for your kids. Select a fun theme and choose to make handmade Valentines Day decorations at home. Use red hearts and balloons in your decor to infuse it with seasonal style. Encourage your kids to make lovely decor accents that you can display. Here are some creative craft ideas to engage your kids.

Sweet Treat Garlands

Create candy garlands that you can use as gifts for kids. Collect patterned cupcake liners and candy cubes in different colors. Help your children string the liners and candy cubes with wire to make charming garlands. Hang the garlands on your window sills to add to the Valentine festivities. Create decorative pink and white flower wreaths by gluing pink and white paper flowers with colorful beads and lace heart cutouts on wreath forms. Place the wreaths on the entrance and on the doors inside your home as a creative way to celebrate Valentines Day for kids.

Heart Trees

Collect small branches and remove the leaves. Spray glitter paint on the branches. Get the kids to cut out heart shapes in different colors from construction paper. Add glitter, sequins or stickers on the hearts to make them attractive. Kids can also paint their own patterns. Secure the hearts on the branches with glue. Bring home small red vases for the kids so they can "plant" their heart trees by arranging the branches in the vase. Use the vase as table decor for your Valentines Day decorations.

Custom Potato Stamps

Carve potatoes to create the desired shape. Start by making a simple design using a marker on a halved potato. Cut around the design to create a raised stamp design. Kids can dip these potato stamps in colorful paints to make their own patterns on construction paper.

Photo Frames

Use craft paper in solid colors to cut out fun shapes of people, animals or even favorite cartoon characters. Paste the cutouts on colored papers in contrasting shades. Ask the kids to write their special messages at the bottom of the pages. Create borders for this artwork using long lengths of black paper and gluing them along the sides.

Embellished Candy Boxes and Paper Cones

Heart-shaped boxes make excellent containers for gifts like candies and lollipops. Coat the boxes with glue and roll in iridescent red glitter. Let dry and use as favor boxes.

Kids can decorate colored paper with sequins, stickers or glitter. Have them write down affectionate messages for the special people in their lives. Help them make red and pink paper cones with this paper and wrap red ribbons around the cones. Fill the cones with paper roses to make Valentine bouquets.

Enjoy celebrating Valentines Day for kids with tasty goodies and treats for them. Help your children make one-of-a-kind Valentines Day decorations to express their creativity and enjoy the holiday.

Authors Profile: William Socket is a certified interior designer and runs his own interior decoration consultancy. William especially loves decorating a home in wooden furniture and believes that nothing gives a home as warm and cozy a touch as all-wood furniture and decor.

William loves reading up on new design ideas, and has a special interest in space saving techniques. Here William writes about Valentines Day Decorations and Valentines Day For Kids.