20 Easy Preschool Valentine’s Crafts (With Free Printables)

If you are teacher in a busy classroom or a parent at home, who needs easy Valentine’s craft ideas for kids this post is for you.

I believe that the best crafts are the ones that children can finish all by themselves. But we all know how quickly a craft project can turn into a giant mess of glitter and glue.

Therefore, this collection is all about keeping things simple. I have gathered the best low-prep craft ideas that focus on basic shapes and easy steps. These cute heart and other printable would look great hanging from a DIY Valentine’s Day tree.

You will find ideas like easy paper hearts, sweet cards, and fun things kids can wear. These projects are perfect for small hands that are still learning how to use scissors and glue and can be a great DIY for your family, which you can turn into a Valentine tradition.

To make your life even easier, I have put together a Free Printable Valentine Sheets, that includes ready-to-use templates and heart shapes that you can print out in seconds.

It takes away the hard work of drawing everything by hand so that the kids can get straight to decorating and create something full of heart and which makes them proud.

If your kids enjoy such similar crafty adventures like these Valentine’s activities, don’t miss our Fall Gratitude Post. It’s filled with similar free worksheets, puzzles, and family activities designed to celebrate the autumn season!

These Valentine preschool printables are for personal and classroom use only. Please don’t resell, redistribute, or share the digital files. If you’d like to share them with others, simply send them the link to this post so they can download their own copy. Thank you for supporting my work! ❤️

Why Use These Preschool Valentine Craft Sheets?

Beyond being “easy,” these printables serve a huge purpose in early childhood development. Here is why you’ll love using this pack:

• Builds Fine Motor Strength: Whether it’s following the wavy lines of the Heart Puzzle or practicing “snipping” on the Cutting Sheets, these activities strengthen the small hand muscles needed for writing later on.

• Encourages Early Math & Logic: Activities like “How many hearts are on the line?” and the Numbers Puzzle introduce basic counting and sequencing in a way that feels like play, not a lesson.

• Promotes Creative Expression: By giving kids separate pieces to “Mix & Match,” you are allowing them to make their own choices. There is no “right” way to color a “Dino-mite” dinosaur!

• Low-Stress Holiday Planning: Valentine’s Day can be chaotic. Having a go-to pack of high-quality outlines means you always have a “back-pocket” activity ready to go if a lesson ends early or you need a quiet-time transition.

• Language & Literacy: The “punny” lines (like “Nuts About You”) introduce children to wordplay and simple reading phrases in a memorable, funny way.

What’s Included in This Easy Valentine’s Craft Pack?

I’ve designed this bundle to be a “one-stop shop” for Valentine’s Day fun. It’s packed with a mix of creative art projects and early learning activities that focus on fine motor skills, math, and logic.

Each activity helps little ones practice important early skills like fine motor control, matching, counting, and basic problem-solving, all while enjoying cute Valentine-themed designs.

The activities are easy to understand and just right for young learners, making them perfect for classroom centers, homeschool lessons, or a cozy Valentine craft day at home. Here is a sneak peek at what you’ll find inside:

• Heart-Shaped Animal Outlines: A collection of “punny” animals (like our “Bee Mine” bee and “Dino-mite” dinosaur) ready for coloring and card-making.

• The “Piece of My Heart” Puzzle: A chunky, large-heart template with wavy lines for kids to cut out and solve.

• Copy the heart: Kids can copy a heart picture using the grids as a guideline

• Dot The heart: A “Do-a-Dot” style worksheet where kids can use markers, stickers, or paint to fill in the circles and create a colorful heart.

• Various Heart Shape Outlines: Different sizes of hearts to use for “Love-Bug” caterpillars, headbands, or free-draw decorating.

• Heart Maze: A simple, preschool-friendly maze to help develop logic and pencil control.

• Easy Cutting Practice: Specific sheets with wavy and dashed lines designed to help little hands master their scissors.

• Trace the Shapes: A pre-writing activity where kids can trace hearts, and other geometrical shapes.

• Valentine’s Counting Fun: A “Count the Hearts” page where kids find and circle all the hearts they see.

• Match the Heart Shapes: A fun visual game where kids connect half colorful hearts to their matching halves.

• “How Many Hearts?” Counting: A line-by-line counting activity to help with visual tracking and basic addition.

• Numbers Puzzle: A horizontal-strip puzzle where kids must put the numbers in order (1–5 or 1–10) to reveal a hidden Valentine’s picture.

• Heart Collage: A blank heart template perfect for decorating with glitter, stickers, or scrap paper to create a unique piece of Valentine’s art.

Pro-Tip: I recommend printing the Cutting Practice and Numbers Puzzle on slightly thicker paper or cardstock. It makes it much easier for preschoolers to handle the paper while they are learning to use scissors!

5 Ways to Use these Valentine Printable

Here how you can use these Valentine’s Day Printables

• Make Personalized Cards: Use the “punny” animal outlines as the front of a greeting card. Kids can color the animals, cut them out, and glue them onto a folded piece of construction paper to give to family, friends, or classmates.

• Create Festive Artwork: Encourage kids to use the different heart templates to create a large Valentine’s collage. They can mix the shapes with glitter, paint, or tissue paper to make a masterpiece for the fridge or a classroom bulletin board.

• Design Paper Jewelry: The smaller heart outlines are perfect for making “love bug” crowns or bracelets. Simply cut out the hearts and staple or tape them to a long strip of paper that fits around a child’s head or wrist.

• Create Fun Challenges: Turn the “Piece of My Heart” puzzle or the heart maze into a timed challenge. You can see who can “fix” their broken heart puzzle the fastest or set up a scavenger hunt where kids have to find and complete each worksheet hidden around the room.

• Great for Group Activities: These printables are perfect for “station rotation” during a school party. Set up one table for matching shapes, one for cutting practice, and one for counting hearts so that groups of children can rotate through the fun.

Pro-tip: Make a Valentine’s Binder If you want to keep all the work in one place, hole-punch the finished pages and put them into a binder or staple them together to make a “My Valentine’s Day Book.” It’s a wonderful way to see all the progress they made with their counting, tracing, and coloring!

Valentine’s Heart Craft Supplies Checklist

Before you hit print, gather these basic supplies. Most of these are likely already in your craft closet, making these activities perfect for a low-prep afternoon!

• Cardstock or Heavy Paper: Recommended for the puzzles and cards so they don’t floppy or tear easily.

• Child-Safe Safety Scissors: Essential for the “Easy Cutting Practice” and puzzle sheets.

• Glue Sticks or School Glue: Glue sticks are usually best for preschoolers to keep the mess to a minimum!

• Crayons, Washable Markers, or Colored Pencils: To bring those “punny” animals to life.

• Glitter or Glitter Glue: To add some sparkle to your crafts.

• Washable Ink Pads: If you want to try the fingerprint “Ice Cream” activity.

• Construction Paper: For the “Mix & Match” card bases or for making headbands.

• Googly Eyes: A fun addition to the “Love-Bug” caterpillars or the “Bee Mine” bee.

Quick Tip for teachers: If you are using the Heart Maze, Counting Sheets, or Trace the Shapes in a classroom setting, slide them into a plastic sheet protector or laminate them. Kids can then use dry-erase markers to do the activities over and over again!

How to Print and Assemble

Here are few of my craft essentials that has made my crafting experience a breeze. This section contains affiliate links please see the full disclosure policy.

Download the File: Click the link at the top and bottom of this post to save the PDF.

Choose Your Paper: For coloring and tracing, regular printer paper works great. For the puzzles and cards, use cardstock paper if you want them to be extra sturdy.

Check Your Settings: Make sure your printer is set to “Fit to Page” so that none of the cute designs get cut off at the edges. I really think HP Home Printer does this job beautifully.

Prepare the Activities: Some pages, like the “Piece of My Heart” puzzle, will need to be cut out before the kids can play with them. By the way for trimming and cutting I really recommend CARL Paper Cutter and these Kid Friendly scissors.

Make it Reusable: If you want to use the mazes or counting sheets more than once, you can slide them into a plastic sheet protector and let kids use dry-erase markers.

Use these Preschool Crafts beyond Valentine’s Day Also

These printable sheets are versatile tools that can help manage transitions and spark joy beyond the Valentine’s Day celebrations. Here is how to make them work for you:

• Easy Holiday Activities: Use these worksheets during weekends when you need some quick kids activities and even during school holidays. They are also great to have on hand for “early finishers” who need something to do while others finish their lessons.

• Fun Party Games: Incorporate the puzzles and mazes into your Valentine’s Day party or any other get-together. You can set them up at different tables to keep the kids entertained and moving.

• Travel-Friendly Fun: Bring these printables along on car rides or trips. They are an easy, screen-free way to keep kids busy in the car or while waiting at a restaurant.

• Calming Quiet Time: Use the coloring and tracing pages as a relaxing activity. They are perfect for slowing down the energy before a nap or at the end of a day.

Final Word on Easy Preschool Valentine’s Crafts

Valentine’s Day is such a fun time to celebrate friendship and creativity with preschoolers. Wherever you are using these printables in a classroom or at your kitchen table, I hope they make your holiday prep a little easier.

Don’t forget to grab your free crafts sheets and let the kids lead the way to creativity. If you and your little ones enjoyed these activities, I would love to hear about it! Leave a comment below or share a photo of your finished crafts on social media. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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