Twelve Easy Valentine's Day Card Ideas for Kids

Below y'all'll find lots of Valentine's Day Card Ideas for Kids. Years as a classroom art teacher will have you try out lots of things!

  • Paper Projects

Mini Me Valentine Cards

Easy Valentine's Day Card Ideas for kids, made drawing and a photo.

Materials for a Mini Me Valentine Carte

  • Headshot photo of each student, well-nigh 2″ tall
  • White bill of fare stock paper
  • Pair of scissors
  • Glue stick
  • Blackness marker
  • Colored pencils

Directions to brand a Mini Me Valentine Card

Time needed:one 60 minutes.

How to make a Valentine Bill of fare

  1. Fold paper for guides. Glue cut out head photo in heart of the meridian half section.

  2. Draw a trunk that is proportioned every bit shown.

  3. Trace and color. Cutting out trunk carefully. See more info below.

1. A black and white head photo should be about ii″ tall and placed about 1/2″ downward from the top of a letter-size piece of card stock paper. I accept the graphics software to print faces individually, but if you don't y'all could e'er just cut and paste. If you photograph students in front end of a white wall, it volition help them run across where to cut later on.

two. Students fold the paper in half to notice the waist line, and then the bottom in one-half to notice where the knees will autumn. I believe it helps to depict the heart first, then the hands, and then connect arms to the shoulders. The bottom one-half of the trunk may be drawn however students wish, but the knees must be on the fold line and shoes almost touch the lesser of the paper. When the drawing is done, all lines are traced with a black marker.

3. The body is colored in with colored pencils, cut out with scissors, and bent and displayed as desired.

A sample carte du jour art from Nebraska

Draw a Valentine Portrait

First with a print of sunglasses to draw a Valentine portrait. It makes for proficient face proportion practice.

Valentine's Day portrait card
Use a PDF template to print the sunglasses, and the draw a face around them.
Preview of the PDF template

Directions for a Valentine Portrait

Impress template, have students depict and color a face around the glasses.

Oil Pastel Eye

Use your leftover oil pastels to color a very smudgy centre

Fractured Middle

Depict a center, dissect it with a ruler, color and add together shadows to the corners.

Scratch Art Heart

Layer oil pastel color and scratch out a message

Scratch Art Heart with Shading

Layer oil pastels and add together shading

Painting Projects

Giant coffee filters, ironed flat, and painted with liquid watercolor paint

Valentine Eye Resist Painting

Newspaper Dial Heart Stamps

Use a paper punch to make hearts, and hole dial to brand the stamp edges

3D Paper Punch Heart Card

Utilize a paper center dial to make these 3D hearts

  • Punch out hearts

  • Fold them in one-half

  • Glue together on blank side

Radiating Hearts

Hearts colored with pencil crayons, pressing hard for brilliant colors