36 Easy Valentine’s Day Crafts & Printables for Kids That Are Quick, Cute & Fun

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Valentine’s Day is almost here, and if you need some last-minute crafts, you’re in luck! These easy and fun projects include adorable Valentine boxes and free printable cards, making them perfect for classroom exchanges or at-home fun. Whether your little one wants to create a cute mailbox for collecting cards or hand out an extra special card, these ideas are simple, festive, and sure to spread the love!

Dog Valentines

Printable Valentine cards with cute puppies holding hearts, featuring playful messages. Surrounded by scattered pink and red hearts.
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These adorable Dog Valentine Cards are a super cute way for kids to share the valentine love with their friends. They’re the perfect card for any little dog lover!

Get the Free Printable: Dog Valentines

Cupcake Valentines

Cupcake valentine's day cards for kids on blank background
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These cute Cupcake Valentine Cards are an easy way for the kids to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Perfect for their classroom valentine exchange, your kids will love sharing these fun cards with their friends!

Get the Free Printable: Cupcake Valentines

Owl Valentines

Sheet of six pink Valentine’s Day cards featuring cartoon owls and heart borders with playful messages.
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These free printable owl valentines make such a cute addition to your kids’ Valentine’s Day celebrations. They’ll have a blast exchanging these fun cards with all their friends!

Get the Free Printable: Owl Valentines

Panda Valentines

Cute panda-themed Valentine's cards with playful messages, featuring pandas holding hearts and balloons.
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These free printable panda valentines are a fun addition to any school Valentine’s Day celebration. Download and print this free set of cards and your kids will have the cutest valentines in the class!

Get the Free Printable: Panda Valentines

Dinosaur Valentines

Eight colorful dinosaur-themed Valentine cards with playful messages and heart decorations. The messages include puns involving "dino" and "T-Rex." Cards are arranged in two rows.
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These free printable dinosaur valentine cards are colorful and fun and the perfect way for the kids to celebrate Valentine’s Day with their friends and classmates. Your little dinosaur fan will absolutely love them!

Get the Free Printable: Dinosaur Valentines

Cat Valentines

Two sheets of Valentine's Day cards featuring black cats, red hearts, and Valentine's messages in red and pink designs.
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These Cat Valentine Cards are an adorable addition to your kids’ school Valentine’s Day celebrations. They’re the perfect greeting cards for little cat lovers to exchange with their friends!

Get the Free Printable: Cat Valentines

Video Game Valentines

Video game valentine cards.
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These video game valentine cards are perfect for the little gamer in your life. They’ll have so much fun bringing these cards to school and sharing them with friends at their classroom valentine exchange!

Get the Free Printable: Video Game Valentine

Cute Hedgehog Valentines

Hedgehog valentine's day cards.
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These free printable Hedgehog Valentine Cards are the perfect way for the kids to celebrate Valentine’s Day with their friends. Just print and cut and your kids will have the cutest cards at their classroom exchange.

Get the Free Printable: Hedgehog Valentines

Donut Valentines

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These donut valentine cards are the sweetest Valentine’s Day surprise. Bright and colorful with a cute donut theme, these free printable cards are perfect for the kids to give to their friends and classmates.

Get the Free Printable: Donut Valentines

Gnome Valentines

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These free printable gnome valentine cards are the perfect way for kids to share Valentine’s Day wishes with their friends and classmates. You’ll love this fun set of printable cards with their adorable gnome graphics and cute Valentine’s Day messages.

Get the Free Printable: Gnome Valentines

Unicorn Valentines

Unicorn Valentine Cards mockup
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These unicorn valentine cards are perfect for the little unicorn lover in your life. Colorful and fun, these free printable cards make such a cute surprise for kids to give to their friends on Valentine’s Day.

Get the Free Printable: Unicorn Valentines

Harry Potter Valentines

Sheet of six Harry Potter-themed Valentine's Day cards with cartoon characters and various greetings.
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Harry Potter valentines are the perfect cards for little Hogwarts fans to share with friends. Just print, cut and fill them out. They can even get a little crafty and make the matching valentine box too!

Get the Free Printable: Harry Potter Valentines

Baby Yoda Valentines

A set of Valentine's Day cards featuring a fictional green character, each with different themed messages, surrounded by red heart shapes.
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Baby Yoda valentines don’t get much cuter than this! How can you get any more lovable than than this little guy, right? Kids are going to love handing out these Star Wars valentines to all their friends!

Get the Free Printable: Baby Yoda Valentines

Soccer Valentine Box

A soccer themed valentine box with figurines on it.
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This Soccer Valentine Box is such a fun and creative way for your kids to collect their school valentines. The little soccer stars in your house will absolutely love it!

Check out the tutorial: Soccer Valentine Box

Dog Valentine Box (with template)

Dog valentine box with large eyes and floppy ears made of foam, placed on a white surface. Background features a doghouse illustration with a bowl and flowers.
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My kids love coming up with fun ideas and this one was all theirs! We love how it turned out and it’s the perfect box for a little girl or boy.

Check out the tutorial: Dog Valentine Box

Baby Yoda Valentine Box (with template)

Green Baby Yoda Valentine Box surrounded by six themed Valentine's cards with playful messages on a white brick background.
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Who doesn’t love Baby Yoda, right? Super cute and easy, this Baby Yoda Valentines Day box is perfect for little Star Wars fans.

Check out the tutorial: Baby Yoda Valentine Box

Gnome Valentine Box (with template)

Valentine box with gnome holding balloons
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Everyone loves gnomes and this cute box is sure to be a hit! It even comes complete with printable template to make it an easy valentine craft for kids of all ages!

Check out the tutorial: Gnome Valentine Box

Harry Potter Valentine Box

Harry Potter Valentine Box with books and a wand against a textured blue background
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We took a little inspiration from my daughter’s favorite book series for this one! This is the perfect valentine box for Harry Potter fans. All you need is construction paper, glue and scissors…doesn’t get much easier than that! 

Get the tutorial: Harry Potter Valentine Box

Monster Book Of Monsters Valentine Box

A book covered in faux fur with eyes and teeth, labeled "The Monster Book of Monsters," next to a wand and glasses on a black background.
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This Monster Book Of Monsters box may have taken the most time, but it’s one of my my favorite because it was so fun to make! Plus, kids will love feeding their cards to a “monster”!

Get the tutorial: Monster Book Of Monsters Valentine Box

Spiderman Valentine Box (with template)

Spiderman Valentine Box with spiderweb in back
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This Spiderman Box is the perfect craft for little superheroes! With just a few craft supplies, kids can create a cool box that’s sure to make them the envy of all their friends.

Get the tutorial: Spiderman Valentine Box

Among Us Valentine’s Box (with template)

Red crewmate from Among Us surrounded by red glittery hearts on a white wooden background.
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Little gamers will love this DIY box for school. The template is easy to follow so it’s great for kids of all ages. When you’re done, print these video game valentine cards to go along with it!

Get the tutorial: Among Us Valentine’s Box

Adorable Owl Valentine Box

Colorful owl-shaped Valentine's Day card box with large eyes, decorated with a red bow, heart-shaped scales in pink, orange, and yellow, set against a wooden background.
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This pretty owl box is such a fun project to make and with it’s bright colors, it stands out from the rest. It’s a super cute idea for all ages.

Get the tutorial: Adorable Owl Valentine Box

Panda Valentine Box (with template)

A gift wrapped to resemble a panda with a red bow, placed in front of a backdrop of green paper bamboo.
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What kid doesn’t love pandas, right? This is an easy idea for school and you can just leave off the bow if your little one wants a boy panda.

Get the tutorial: Panda Valentine Box

LEGO Valentine Box

A large red rectangular block resembling a Lego is surrounded by various colored smaller toy bricks on a yellow surface.
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Valentine boxes don’t get much easier than this LEGO brick version. This simple idea is perfect for little LEGO fans and a great when you wait last minute and need one in a hurry (just be sure to save those milk jug lids).

Get the tutorial: LEGO Valentine Box

Unicorn Valentine Box

Pink unicorn-themed valentine box with a gold horn, flowers, and closed eyes design, surrounded by scattered flowers on a white background.
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Everybody loves a unicorn and this adorable unicorn Valentine’s Day box is one of my favorites! Plus, since you can get these supplies from Dollar Tree, it makes a budget friendly craft too!

Get the tutorial: Unicorn Valentine Box

Shark Valentine Box

Shark valentine box with seashells in the background
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Don’t worry, this Shark Valentine Box may look fierce but the only things he’ll be eating are the valentine’s cards!

Get the tutorial: Shark Valentine Box

SpongeBob Valentine Box (with template)

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Who doesn’t love SpongeBob Square pants, right? This fun craft also comes with free printables so you can just cut and trace the template to make this one too. It’s another one that’s works for both a little boy or girl.

Get the tutorial: SpongeBob Valentine Box

Pikachu Valentine Box (with template)

Pikachu Valentine Box feature
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Little Pokemon fans will love making this cute Pikachu box for Valentine’s Day!

Get the tutorial: Pikachu Valentine Box

Minion Valentine Box (with template)

Minion valentine box with mini minions nearby
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My girls had a blast making this fun box (and it comes with printable tracers to make it easy). 

Get the tutorial: Minion Valentine Box

Donut Valentine Box

Donut valentine box with pink icing, colorful sprinkles, and a smiling face against a white background.
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You may not be able to eat it but this donut themed box is almost as much fun as the real thing? This one also comes with donut cards to match!

Get the tutorial: Donut Valentine Box

Cat Valentine Box

Box tops collection box feature
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This cute kitty cat started off as a collection box for box tops but we discovered that it makes and even better Valentine box!

Get the tutorial: Cat Valentine Box

Robot Valentine Box

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This Robot Box is a great way for your little sci-fi lover to collect their cards. With just a few simple supplies (save those toilet paper rolls), you’ve got an out-of-this-world valentine craft that everyone will love!

Get the tutorial: Robot Valentine Box

Cute Heart Shaped Valentine Box (with template)

A glittery red heart valentine box with cartoon eyes and mouth. Red petals and a white arrow with a gold heart tip are scattered around.
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Easy and fun, this cute heart valentine’s day box has a printable template, making it both simple and fun to get crafty.

Get the tutorial: Cute Heart Shaped Valentine Box

Chewbacca Valentine Box

A furry Chewbacca valentine box is displayed on a wooden surface. In the background, images of the Death Star, TIE fighter, and Millennium Falcon are visible.
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After making our Monster Book Of Monsters box, we had some fur left over. It was just enough to make a furry Chewbacca, perfect for the little Star Wars fan in your life!

Get the tutorial: Chewbacca Valentine Box

Easy Shopkins Valentines Box

A handmade purple and pink cardboard TV with foil antennas and a smiling face wearing sunglasses.
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We’ve gotten a few creative ideas inspired by toys and this easy Valentines box inspired by one of my daughter’s hundreds of Shopkins (that was quite a phase!). It’s super easy and any kid that still loves Shopkins (or watching TV) will have a blast making it.

Get the tutorial: Easy Shopkins Valentines Box

Shopkins Calculator Valentine Box

Valentine's Day box shaped like a calculator
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This is another one that started as something to hold our box tops. It’s also the second one we modeled after a Shopkins toy, this time a calculator!

Get the tutorial: Shopkins Calculator Valentine Box

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