Valentine's
Valentine's activity ideas for kids.
Framed here as making things for people you love, which includes grandparents, a friend at nursery, a sibling and the cat — rather than anything romantic, which means nothing at this age.
Heart shapes are a genuinely useful craft constraint: cutting, folding, printing, threading and stamping all work with the same simple outline.
Several of these end with delivering the thing, which is most of the pleasure. A card posted through a neighbour's door beats one that stays on the kitchen table.
Activities
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Print Hearts With a Cardboard Tube
Squash a kitchen roll tube into a heart shape and use it as a stamp. One tube makes forty hearts.
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A Post Box for Kind Notes
A cereal box with a slot cut in it. Everyone posts a note about somebody else, and you read them out at dinner.
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Printing Your Own Wrapping Paper
A halved potato, a shape cut into it, and a roll of plain paper. It looks far better than it has any right to.