Preschool Valentines Day Crafts

Little kids love holidays maybe moreso than the average person. They enjoy doing crafts, too, but their little hands often have trouble creating. When Valentines Day rolls around preschool kids want to get in on the fun. You can help them have a great time and get creative by purchasing a few inexpensive craft supplies. With these, they can make Valentines Day decorations, gifts and more.

Kids can draw around their hands to make special cards or small gifts. After drawing around one hand cut it out for the child or let him use safety scissors to cut it himself. The child can write "Happy Valentines Day" or "I Love You" on the hand, with your help. Cut out an image of both hands and the child can make a small gift. Use a glue stick to apply adhesive around the edges of a product lid, such as one from a spice jar. Wrap the wrist area of the hands around the lid to make a look of two hands facing each other. Now the child can set a small tube of lotion, candy bar or other object between the hands.

If you purchase cardstock hearts kids can make all sorts of cool things. The hearts are avaible in various sizes and colors at a craft store. A child can glue a pin backing hardware piece to the backside of the heart to make a Valentines Day pin. Or, tape a bunch of hearts to a string and hang it in the house as a heart-theme garland. Make something completely different with the cardstock hearts when you use several of one size then one larger heart. Glue the tip of one heart to the top part of another heart, on the backside, and continue adding more and more hearts in this manner. End with one larger heart on top of a vertical row of smaller hearts. Glue on wiggly eyes, pipe cleaner pieces and other embellishments, to the large heart, to make a Valentines Day caterpillar that hangs on a wall. Purchase two red, white or pink plates used for birthday parties. Cut one plate in half and use it with a whole plate to make a valentine holder. Put the half-plate on the whole plate and glue the edges together. They can decorate the plates with stickers, buttons or other embellishments. Poke a hole at the top of the large plate. Kids can put their valentines in this adorable hanger. Preschool kids miss out on all the fun that happens in school on Valentines Day. But, with a little help from you, they can still make decorations, cards and gifts for that special day. All of these projects are quite inexpensive and perfect for little kids with little hands.