5 Valentine’s Day craft ideas to do in your classroom

Valentine’s Day is nearly here, so to help you decorate your classroom and engage your students in fun activities, we selected 5 easy craft ideas for you to try in your classroom. They are all simple and easy activities with few materials needed. Check it out:

1. Finger paint Valentine’s Day card

This craft is super easy to do, is fun for the kids and it looks really cute.

For this craft you will need:

• White card stock
• Blu Tack
• Pink acrylic paint

How to make it:

Start by cutting heart shapes in different sizes. To ensure they are symmetrical, fold a piece of paper in half, draw a half-heart shape along the folded edge of the paper and cut the heart out. Place the hearts on your blank cardstock and secure it with small pieces of Blu Tack. Select a few shades of pink and white paint and disperse a small amount on a tray. Now is the fun part, start dipping your fingers on the paint and stamp the card around the hearts. Make sure you don’t apply too much paint to your fingers to avoid bleeding through the heart masks.

Source: How to Make a Kid's Valentine's Day Fingerprint Card | Hobbycraft

2. Pompom Heart Wreath

This craft is super easy and quick, you only need 4 materials to make it, and it will be a great decoration for your classroom or for children to take home with them.

For this craft you will need:

• Cardboard
• Colourful pompoms
• Glue
• Ribbon

How to make it:

In a cardboard piece draw a big heart and a smaller one inside it. Cut the heart shape. Now add glue to a small section of the heart and place the pompoms a few at a time, making sure the glue has time to dry. Repeat the process until the wreath is full. Once it’s fully dry, you can add a ribbon to the middle of the wreath and hang it anywhere you’d like!

Source: 2 Ways to Make a Heart Wreath | Hobbycraft

3. Valentine’s Day Windsock

These windsocks are simple to make and will look adorable by your classroom windows.

For this craft you will need:

• pink, purple and red cardstock paper
• party streamers or crepe paper
• foam heart stickers
• glue stick
• stapler
• scissors

How to make it:

Start by decorating the cardstock paper with the foam hearts stickers (you can also use any heart stickers you have available). Cut out six strips of crepe paper about 18-inches long (or use the party streamers). Now flip the cardstock to the other side so the decorated side is facing the table and add glue along the bottom of the cardstock and stick the crepe paper onto it. Bend the cardstock paper into a circle, connecting the ends together and staple the top and bottom of the windsock.

To create a handle for your windsock, all you have to do is cut a strip of cardstock 1-inch wide and 11-inches long and glue each end of the strip onto the top of the windsock

Source: Heart Windsock Valentine's Day Craft - I Heart Crafty Things

4. Water bottle love bugs

Hands down one of the cutest crafts for this Valentine’s Day! These love bugs will be a success with your class.

For this craft you will need:

• 1 small clear water bottle
• Foam hearts (large and small)
• 4 Red pipe cleaners
• 1 pair googly eyes
• Pink paint
• Glue

How to make it:

Start by painting the bottle with a think coat of pink paint. Now wrap 3 red pipe cleaners around the bottle and twist each one in the centre to create the insect legs. Glue 2 small foam hearts on each side of the ends of the pipe cleaners to create the feet. To create the wings, glue two large foam hearts to the top of the bottle. Wrap another pipe cleaner around the base of the mouth of the bottle then twist. Wrap each end of the pipe cleaner around a pencil to create a coil. Attach 2 more small foam hearts on each side of the ends of the coiled pipe cleaner to create the antenna. Finish it off by glueing 2 googly eyes onto the bottle lid.

Source: Water Bottle Love Bugs - One Little Project

5. Valentine’s slime

Kids love to play with slime! This Valentine’s Day version is super fun and it looks beautiful!

For this craft you will need:

• Clear glue
• Baking soda
• Contact solution
• Pink glitter
• Sequin hearts
• Pink food colouring

How to make it:

Pour all the clear glue into a plastic bowl and add one tablespoon of baking soda and one tablespoon of contact solution. Next add a couple of tablespoons of fine pink glitter and small sequin hearts. Add one drop of pink food colouring and mix. You can adjust the amount of glitter and food colouring to your taste. Knead the slime with your hands. If the mix is still sticky, add a little more of contact solution until the slime pulls away from the bowl.

Source: Valentine Slime - Crafts by Amanda