Valentine's Day Art Activities for Toddlers

Valentine's Day is just around the corner! Valentine's Day is one of those holidays that really fascinates and captures the imagination of toddlers. Its bright colors and words of love are definitely attention grabbers! Let your toddler enjoy those bright colors and Valentine's Day phrases while making some adorable artwork that you will want to keep forever. Here I have listed some fun Valentine's Day artwork for toddlers. These Valentine's Day art projects can be pursued at home or teachers and daycare providers might use them in their classrooms.

Marble Heart Painting
Give each toddler a large heart cut from white construction paper. Place the construction paper heart on a cookie sheet. Dip marbles in red, pink and purple paint, then place them on the construction paper heart. With your help, let the toddler gently move the cookie sheet, sending the marbles sliding about on the construction paper heart. In a very short time he will have produced a beautiful work of art!

Hearts Headband
Cut a strip of construction paper to fit around your toddler's head. Set out several small construction paper hearts cut from different colors. Give your toddler a glue stick or put several dots of glue on the headband yourself. Let the toddler glue hearts on the headband. Now she has a wearable work of art. For preschool teachers, this is a great make and wear activity for Valentine's Day parties.

Heart Prints
On a table, set out several heart shaped objects that can be used to make prints with paint. Examples are heart shaped cookie cutters, hearts cut into potato halves and pipe cleaners shaped into hearts. Let your toddler dip these objects into his choice of red, pink or purple paint and then press them onto a sheet of white construction paper. For preschool teachers, you might choose to laminate these heart prints to be used as placemats at your classroom Valentine's Day party.

Heart Rubbings
Make several heart shapes from small objects. For example, tape or glue pennies into a heart shape on a piece of cardboard. Also, cut heart shapes from things such as sandpaper and cardboard. You can also shape pipe cleaners into hearts and glue them onto pieces of cardboard. Now give your toddler a piece of thin white paper and some pink, red and purple crayons. Let her set the paper over the heart shapes and, using the side of the crayons, make heart rubbings.

Enjoy this bright and beautiful Valentine's Day with your toddler! And be sure to proudly display their Valentine's Day artwork for all to see.