2nd February 25
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to bring creativity and fun into the classroom. As a teaching assistant, you play a key role in making the celebration special by introducing exciting craft projects that let students express themselves while building their artistic skills.
From adorable handmade cards to heartwarming decorations, there are plenty of craft ideas to choose from. Not only do these activities create lasting memories, but they also encourage teamwork, creativity, and a sense of accomplishment among students. Plus, you’ll be there to guide, inspire, and help them bring their ideas to life.
Looking for some of the best Valentine’s Day crafts to get your students excited and engaged? Here are our top picks that are fun, cute, and full of heart!
Keep it simple with a pom pom heart wreath
A classic and super fun option for the kids would be to suggest making pom pom heart wreaths. Have them draw and cut out a heart shape from card with another heart cut out in the centre. After that, have them take as many multicoloured pom poms as needed to fill the whole of the wreath with some help from a bit of pritt stick.
They look great and as an added option you could have the students tape some string onto the back so they can hang wherever they choose to put them up at home.
Make the kids laugh with a heart man with googly eyes
This craft is really easy but very cute after getting to the end result. For making the heart man, you’ll need some red and white card, googly eyes, scissors, black markers and plenty of pritt stick. Have your students cut out one large heart and four small ones from the red card.
Afterwards, get the kids to cut out four fairly thin, long strips of white card and fold them up bit by bit to create a crinkle effect. Next, glue the white strips for arms and legs on the back of the red card then add the little hearts for hands and feet. Once that's done, it’s time to fix on the googly eyes and then draw a smile with the marker. Then it’s all complete.
Suggest a ladybug craft with hearts for spots
This is a particularly good craft for Valentine’s Day as it combines hidden messages the kids can create as well as making the insect. In order to make the ladybug, you’ll need:
- Lots of red cardboard
- Plenty of heart stickers for the spots (red and black hearts would look best in our opinion but totally up to you)
- Pipe cleaner for the antennas
- Googly eyes
- Markers to create the smile and also to write messages under the folded flaps on both sides of the ladybug
- Scissors and glue
These ladybugs filled with hearts and warm messages are bound to be a hit and parents will love seeing them come out of school running with their cute lovebug creations.
Get them weaving and winding with cardboard-laced hearts
This craft is quite unique and a good option if you want to make the hearts extra-large for a more time-consuming craft. These cardboard-laced hearts are easy to prepare, you’ll just need some sturdy cardboard stock, a hole puncher (this part will require prep before class) to create an additional heart shape on the cardboard as well as an abundance of red string.
The kids will have plenty of fun deciding how they want to weave the string into place while creating their own designs and will definitely keep them engaged. The end results look very polished for a kid’s school craft, so these ones are bound to impress.
Go a bit more advanced by creating a DIY cupid
For this one to go off without a hitch, you might want to consider doing this craft with slightly older year groups. You’ll want cardboard tubes, markers, pipe cleaner in gold and silver colours, some beige or cream colour cotton balls, markers and felt tip colours and cotton wool, and glue and scissors. The kids will be making Valentine’s cupid characters with a bow, arrow, and wings to match.
The pipe cleaner will be used to form the wings, bow and arrow and attached with glue (or you can use staples to help the kids get them secured) and then they’ll used coloured pens to create the face, the white cotton will be the hair and they’ll attach two small cotton balls onto the bow to give the illusion of hands. Easy as that!
Try a simple mosaic-style heart for a simple, fun craft option
This craft is fun, simple and at the same time it gives the students creative freedom to design their heart mosaics how they wish. For this one, you’ll require some card, glitter card, and construction paper, alongside some glue and scissors.
You can cut out plenty of large cardboard hearts for your students and then let them go wild making their own patterns and picking their own colours to design their hearts. They’re easy to prep and are a straightforward craft that comes out looking amazing.
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