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How to Make Easy Heart Shaped Pancakes with Kids

heart shaped pancakes

Create a special Valentine’s Day breakfast with these easy heart shaped pancakes. They are colorful, fun and easy to make with your child.

Here’s how…

Easy Heart Pancakes Recipe with Kids

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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and here’s a special way to show your love with heart shaped pancakes. This week is LOVE week at the weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids.  I thought it would be such fun to plan a special Valentine’s Day Breakfast to go along with our featured book The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond.

Plus a fun addition to our Pancake Activities for Preschool Unit

The Day It Rained Hearts Book Activities

BUY NOW: The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond

In the story, one day it rains hearts, and the main character Cornelia Augusta catches them. She realizes that the hearts are perfect for making valentines. Each heart is special in its own way, and she knows exactly who to send them to: her animal friends. This book is an adorable way to spark creativity and thoughtfulness towards those you love!

It’s what inspired our Valentine Themed Pancakes for my loved ones.  You’re going to love making these heart shaped pancakes with your child

Easy Heart Shaped Pancakes Recipe

Ingredients

  • Pancake Mix or your favorite Pancake Recipe

Materials 

  • Plastic Squeeze Condiment Bottles
  • Neon Gel Food Color Set  
  • Electric Griddle 
Making heart shaped pancakes for valentines day

Directions for Easy Heart Shaped Pancakes

Read the story The Day It Rained Hearts and then get ready for some heart shaped fun!

1. Preheat the Electric Griddle or Pan. I prefer using the griddle for making pancakes and especially when I cooking with my kids.  That was we can move it around to make it convenient for working on a kitchen step stool.

2. Mix together ingredients to form pancake batter with your child.  Have your child use the measuring cups and spoons to be a part of kitchen learning with you.

3. Once the pancake batter is mixed divide it into a smaller bowl if you want to add  Food Color. We choose Purple and Pink for our colors.  Add a few drop, it doesn’t take much and then gentle mix in.

4. Now pour the colored pancake mix into the Plastic Squeeze Condiment Bottles.

5. Use the color pancake batter in the bottle to hand form a heart on the heated up electric griddle.  Now make a bunch more.  These cook far quicker than normal pancakes to be prepared to flip quickly.

Cooking Heart Shaped Pancakes

6. So make a solid heart shape just draw the shape of a heart and then go back and fill it in with more batter.

7. Get creative a make your own XOXO or a special Valentine message.

Pancake Love Messages for a loved one

Additional Options for Heart Shaped Pancakes or even heart shaped Eggs for your Valentine’s Day Breakfast!

  • Metal Heart Forms for Pancakes and Eggs
  • Silicon Heart Forms for Pancakes & Eggs 

If you like this recipe idea be sure to check out our post about Valentine’s Day Snack for Kids to Make and Eat.  It includes ideas like Heart Shaped Breadsticks Recipe. You might want to add a few  Foam Hearts  & Fishing line or ribbon and hang around the room or from the light above your kitchen table.  We used these plastic heart containers  and then did a Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt

Here’s a more few Valentine book ideas to go along with these heart shaped pancakes.

Books about Love for Preschoolers

  • Happy Valentine’s Day Mouse!
  • Llama Llama I Love You 
  • The Biggest Valentine Ever 
  • Guess How Much I Love You 
  • Love You Forever 
  • Bunny Roo, I Love You
  • The I Love You Book 
  • In My Heart: A Book of Feelings 
  • One Love 
  • Love from the Very Hungry Caterpillar 

Here’s a list of my favorite Valentine’s Day Books for Kids 

We are so excited about all of these ideas for even more love themed fun!

Love Themed Activities for Preschoolers

Check out the other Heart activities below

  • How to Make a Simple Matching Game for Preschoolers – Mama Smiles
  • Raining Hearts Name Craft – Still Playing School
  • Broken Hearts Number Bonds – Rainy Day Mum
  • Love Heart Number Line – Adventures and Play
  • Hearts Sensory Bin-The Moments at Home
  • Easy Heart Shaped Pancakes -The Educators’ Spin On It (That’s here) 
  • Preschool STEM: Valentine’s Tower – Preschool Powol Packets
  • Raining Hearts Viscosity Experiment – Inspiration Laboratories
  • Coding for Kids: The Day it Rained Heart – JDaniel4’s Moms 
  • Prewriting Valentine’s Day pack – Kori at Home
  • The Day It Rained Hearts Process Art – Artsy Momma 
  • Easy Heart Painting with Cookie Cutters from Messy Little Monsters 
  • Throw a Love Fest | Kindness Party for Kids- Toddler Approved
heart shaped pancakes

Here’s some additional ideas for Valentine’s Day with Kids…

Heart Shaped Candy Treats Using Pretzels and White Chocolate Candy Pieces with Sprinkles
Homemade Valentines Day card Ideas for Kids
How to make Heart Shaped Cake Balls for Valentines' Day Candy Treat

Like this idea? Pin for later or share now with a friend!

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About Kim Vij

Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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Comments

  1. Sophie Pancaketime says

    March 23, 2019 at 6:49 pm

    This was actually really good for making breakfast in bed for my PARENTS! Not just handy for teachers and parents! I missed Valentine’s so thought I would make it up to them with some pancakes… Worked like a charm! Thanks so much for the useful and clear instructions!

  2. Mia Wenjen says

    February 7, 2017 at 3:28 pm

    Love these heart shaped pancakes! And the handwriting ones! High art!

  3. Tracey says

    February 7, 2017 at 1:54 am

    Love these pancakes-so easy to do….we´ll definitely be trying them out!!Unfortunately won´t be able to get hold of the book though but will be checking out the other activities too!

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