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Valentine’s Day Activities for Babies and Toddlers

Valentine Activities for Babies and Toddlers from The Educators' Spin On It

Playful ideas for your baby’s first Valentine’s Day. These hands-on Valentine’s Day Activities for your baby or toddler will make your heart melt and create keepsakes to treasure and share with loved ones.

Here’s how to make your baby’s first Valentine’s day special…

Heart themed activities with a baby exploring a heart shaped chocolate box
Hands-On Activities for your Baby and Toddlers to enjoy and create for Valentine’s Day!
  • Heart Exploration Activity
  • Heart Cookie Cutters Art Activity
  • Felt Hearts Activity
  • Heart Scribbles Art
  • Heart Prints with Cookie Cutter
  • Butterfly Valentine with Printable
  • Easy Valentine crafts for one year olds!
  • Love Bug Footprint T-Shirt
  • Valentine Butterfly Craft for Kids
  • Valentine Snack Time for toddlers and preschoolers 
  • Valentine’s Day Board Books for Babies and Toddlers
  • Click here for more Baby Activities 

Take a peek at simple ideas for playing with hearts at home this Valentine’s Day with your baby.

Hands-On Activities for your Baby and Toddlers to enjoy and create for Valentine’s Day!

It’s hard to believe my littlest one is going to celebrate her second Valentine’s Day. Last year we were taken sweet pictures of her the size of a chocolate box and this year we’re playing with chocolate boxes.

My oldest daughter was 6 months old for her first Valentine’s Day. She was in love with the box of chocolates. Are you ready for some adorable Valentine’s Day Crafts for Babies?

Here are some heartfelt activities that I know your little ones will enjoy!

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Hands on Fun for Valentine's Day Activities for Babies and Toddlers

Heart Exploration Activity

Babies love to explore!  Let them explore the new things around your home for Valentine’s Day. The empty box of chocolate can be the newest toy that they love to open and shut and open and shut and hide their toys inside.

Cookie Cutter Fun for Valentine's Day Activities for Babies and Toddlers from The Educators' Spin On It

Heart Cookie Cutters Art Activity

The heart cookie cutter you found on clearance after Valentine’s Day can become a manipulative toy that they love putting in and out of the metal bowl (our favorite toy at our house).

Hearts Cookie Cutter Set

Finding things around the house shaped like hearts and talking about them provides discovery and stimulation and vocabulary for your baby’s development.  

I hope to make a few heart photo blocks this week too, inspired by our Make Your Own Baby Blocks.

Felt Hearts for Valentine's Day Activities for Babies and Toddlers from The Educators' Spin On It

Felt Hearts Activity

It’s always fun to give your baby something new to explore. We’re using Felt Hearts for playtime. I cut out some felt hearts in various sizes so that we could explore the hearts. I also gave her a container to keep them in. I made sure to make the hearts in both matching colors and shapes so that she could find the same.

Creating learning opportunities to sort objects and demonstrate new vocabulary; is important at any age. We used words like big, small, same, different, red, pink, and purple.

They would make a cute Valentine gift for your child!

felt heart for kids for pretend play for Valentines' Day

Felt Sweets and Fabric Bowl we received this adorable Handmade Gift for her 1st birthday that she loves. It’s a great idea for Valentine’s Day too for your little ones!

Felt Sheets 12 x 8 Inches, 40 Colors Craft Felt Fabric Sheet Felt Squares

Valentine's Day Activities for Babies and Toddlers from The Educators' Spin On It

Heart Scribbles Art

We just started making our First Scribbles (check out our post for more info).

This time she had fun using the container to hold her crayons in. She was so engaged in putting the crayons in and out of the crayon holder.

She would take the crayon out and put it onto the paper and scribble and then put it back in. I tried to make a big deal out of when she would put it on the paper so she would start to process what to do. She loved it!

Valentine's Day Activities for Babies and Toddlers from The Educators' Spin On It
Valentine's Day Activities for Babies and Toddlers from The Educators' Spin On It

I took her scribbles and cut out some Hearts in various sizes to decorate for Valentine’s Day. Then we took the hearts and glued them onto a piece of paper to create butterflies.

We hung them up on our fridge but you can also make Valentine’s Day cards for Daddy or Grandparents with them.

When we glued them I made sure not to put glue on the end so that their wings could lift up off the paper as though they are flying.

Here’s how our Butterfly Hearts from Scribbles turned out.

Making painting heart shapes with stamping heart cookie cutters for babies and toddlers for Valentine's Day Art Project
Making painting heart shapes with stamping heart cookie cutters for babies and toddlers for Valentine's Day Art

Heart Prints with Cookie Cutter

We explored using a heart cookie cutter to make prints with washable paint. I added a few drops of soap into our already washable paint to make it a little bit easier at clean-up time.

Before we started using the cookie cutter I gave her some time the day before to play with it.

It’s important to let your child experience the art supply before expecting them to create something with it.

100 Heart Doilies, 24 Pieces Foam Hearts and 2 Bags of Foam Heart Stickers

Butterfly Valentine with Printable

Create an adorable valentine to share with loved ones for your child’s first Valentine’s Day with this Butterfly Valentine using the outline of their foot.

Valentine's Day Activities for Babies and Toddlers using footprints and heart doily
Valentine's Day Activities for Babies and Toddlers from The Educators' Spin On It

I’ve included a few cute phrases that you can print out and attach too.  Download here.

Valentine's Day Activities for Babies and Toddlers from The Educators' Spin On It

Easy Valentine crafts for one year olds!

Valentine's Day Activities for Babies and Toddlers from The Educators' Spin On It

Love Bug Footprint T-Shirt

I couldn’t resist using her foot one last time to make a little Valentine’s Day T-Shirt to wear.  I just dipped her foot into red fabric paint and put it onto a Onesie. 

Then I took a sponge heart stamp and stamped the wings onto my Love Bug!  Simple but turned out super cute for our little Love Bug.  You could easily make this into a card too.

Valentine's Day Craft for Babies and Toddlers with Footprint

Valentine Butterfly Craft for Kids

We sent little Valentine’s off to Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles. We made little Valentine Butterflies by tracing my daughter’s foot. Then we attached heart doilies for the wings and eyes to the footprint. We attached this little Valentine phrase too.

I love that both of my girls were able to do this craft together and send them off to family.

Baby’s First Valentine Craft Ideas 

Simple Valentine’s Idea just create a handprint on a heart doily, great for siblings too! Then write a little keepsake message at the bottom. If you want to add a little more heart fun, you can put a foam sticker in the middle of the paper first and then remove it after the fact to leave a heart outline.

Handprint Doily for Valentine's Day Craft for Babies and Toddlers

Have fun with each of these baby crafts for Valentine’s Day!

Valentine Snack Time for toddlers and preschoolers 

We enjoyed our Heart Breadsticks from Little Hands That Cook with Books. If you haven’t checked it out you might want to for a little special snack for family or friends. My daughter loved the heart bread stick and they were super simple!

Heart Shaped Valentine's Day Bread

Valentine’s Day Shopping List for your Baby’s First Valentine’s Day

  • Doilies Multipack Valentine
  • 3 Piece Hearts Cutter Set
  • Tulip Soft Fabric Paint Kit
  • Crayola Washable Kid’s Neon Paint Set
  • Steel Fun Pail, Hot Pink
  • Acrylic Felt Value Pack – Red, Fuchsia, Dark Pink, White

Valentine’s Day Board Books for Babies and Toddlers

Don’t forget to add a special Valentine’s Day Board Book to your fun too! Here’s our favorite…

Hope you enjoy this special time with your baby. Take the moment to really see your baby and loved ones. Validate them and express to them that they are a person who’s important to you. Taking the time to say “I Love You” with hugs and kisses and smiles.

I promise you, your child will love you forever for those moments and grow up happy, confident and loved!

You know what’s best for your child and are your child’s first and most important teacher.

Valentine's Day Activities for Baby or Toddler

Looking for more ways to have fun on Valentine’s Day with your child?  Check out our 101+ Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids!  

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The Educators’ Spin On It Activities are suggestions to play with your child with together. Please use at your own risk and provide adult supervision at all times.

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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. Shannon says

    January 30, 2017 at 3:28 pm

    I’m including a link to this post in my business newsletter as my “Baby Corner” feature for February- thanks for the great round up of Valentine’s sensory activities!

    • Kim Vij says

      February 10, 2017 at 11:40 am

      Thanks Shannon for the mention!

  2. Lisa Buckland says

    January 31, 2014 at 9:37 am

    i love the felt hearts and cookie cutters and empty chocolate box ideas, so simple x

  3. Simona says

    January 30, 2014 at 8:08 am

    Fun activities!

  4. Vicky says

    February 12, 2012 at 8:18 pm

    Love the use of doilies! So creative. Vicky from Mess For Less

  5. Kim @ The Educators' Spin On It says

    February 12, 2012 at 6:09 pm

    I pinned your Love Bug Footprint on our Pinterest Board Artsy Mama, it's so cute and many are loving it! http://pinterest.com/pin/79798224617336367/

  6. artsy_momma says

    February 12, 2012 at 1:22 pm

    This is adorable & she is adorable! Thanks for letting me know about it on my Love Bug post!!! Pinning this to remember for next year. The poem is cute too!

  7. Kim @ The Educators' Spin On it says

    February 11, 2012 at 9:22 pm

    Thanks for sharing Out of Time Mom! Hope you have a special Valentine's Day.

  8. Out of Time Mom says

    February 11, 2012 at 8:49 pm

    I love these ideas! Thank you for sharing. I'm linking to it on my site.

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