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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Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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