Valentine’s Day is a romantic day to celebrate love. Before kids, we were big on going out for a romantic dinner, nowadays, I like to celebrate Valentine’s Day as a family so I’m always looking for some fun ideas and activities for children to do on Valentine’s Day.
So what can you do for Valentine’s Day with kids?
Here are 7 ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day as a family:
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1. Cook or bake some special Valentine’s Day food
I love how these heart shaped Danish biscuits look! Definitely giving them a try with my little ones!
To get the recipe go to hodgepodgedays.co.uk
2. Colour Valentine’s Day colouring pages
One of our kids favourite activities is colouring. I have this Valentine’s Day colouring set of 5 pages’ set from Dreamy Fox Studio on Etsy.
3. Valentine’s Day craft activities for kids
To get some ideas for Valentine’s Day craft activities, I love going to Pinterest. Here’s all the cute ideas I saved in Valentine’s Day with Kids Pinterest board so far.
Some ideas for Valentines Day crafts:
Love tree craft
From https://www.craftsonsea.co.uk/
Click on the link above to read how to make it.
Easy Valentines Paper Heart Wreath
Click on the link above to read all about how to make it.
4. Decorate house with Valentine’s Day decorations
Not going crazy with decorations but think we will have some red or heart shaped balloons and our homemade decorations.
5. Have a Valentine’s Day photoshoot
I am really hoping to have a little Valentine’s Day kids photoshoot at home. Any excuse to take pictures and make some memories!
6. Read Valentine’s Day themed books
Both of my kiddies love dinosaurs, so this year we will read this book:
If you’re in UK, the book link is here and if you’re in US, the book link is here.
7. Make a Valentine’s Day card
I love these cards from mummy2twindividuals.com I think we will definitely be making them this year and and give them to friends.
Here are some more ideas for family friendly Valentine’s Day celebration:
5 SUPER EASY VALENTINES CRAFTS FOR TODDLERS
KIDS VALENTINE’S DAY GIFT IDEAS
Nature Valentines Crafts for Kids
5 SUPER EASY VALENTINES CRAFTS FOR TODDLERS
VALENTINE’S DAY DOILY HEART WINDOW DECORATION
So here are my plans for our Valentine’s Day with kids. What are your Valentine’s Day family friendly traditions?
What lovely ideas, my daughter used to get so excited over Valentines Day when she was little, I love the baking ideas as so much you can do
Some really lovely ideas for celebrating Valentine’s Day as a family! I love the Paper Heart Tree craft, though all the craft ideas are fab! We have made ickle Valentine’s Day sweet boxes this year and are getting ready to deliver them! Sim x
I love all these ideas that you have shared.I am sure it will be so much fun for the kids to participate.
It’s always fun to me to see how people are celebrating Valentines day. It used to be a day for couples, or wanna be couples. Now It’s simply a day of expression of love. So great!
How nice, we’ve done a family valentines celebration a few times. My kids are older so we’ve had pampering and chocolate fondue evenings. It’s been great. Mich x
A family Valentines is such a nice idea, I remember making cards as a kid and it’s nice to do something as a family to celebrate love x
Some lovely ideas! We will definitely be giving some Valentines Day crafts a go as my kids will love them.
These are such fun ideas, baking is always a good idea! Heart shaped biscuits! xo