Valentine’s Day Art Projects for Kids

There are so many fun ways to make and decorate hearts and Valentine’s Day themed stuff! These projects are great to do with a class or at home, and they can be used to decorate the classroom or as gifts to parents or other special people in the child’s life.

This pretty printable heart wreath from Krokotak takes a bit of assembly but it’s a lot of fun to color and then to see the wreath come together. I love the idea of a bunch of these hanging from the ceiling in a classroom, or even used as door decor. There are both photos and a video showing how to assemble it.

Grab some happy trash, paper, paint and other supplies to make these mixed media love bugs from Art Camp LA. These are so fun and every one will look different because it’s totally kid directed.

The stained glass heart shaped suncatchers from Adventure in a Box are fun and easy to make, and you don’t have to limit kids to traditional Valentine colors (or even heart shapes!) if you don’t want to. They’re made with black glue, which adds an extra crafty element since that’s something you make yourself (and you might want to do in advance if you’re doing this with a bunch of littles and don’t want them to help with that step!).

Help your kids show their friends how much they rock with these easy heart rocks from Red Ted Art. Alternatively kids can paint hearts, flowers, encouraging messages and more on their rocks. Make a rock garden in the classroom or distribute them on the playground for other kids to find.

Arty Crafty Kids has so many great Valentine’s Day art ideas I couldn’t limit myself to sharing just one. I love these cardboard hearts, which would be another great classroom decoration, and these heart art projects inspired by Kandinsky and Romero Britto. That one includes templates you have to be a member to download, but just looking at the pictures might inspire your own art projects, too.

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I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

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