valentines day cards

I knew I had a couple of options this year for Valentine’s Day cards for the kids in my sons’ classes – pencils or candy. I opted for the pencils this year and figured I could tape them to a store-bought card and be done with it.

But this Valentine’s Day, my little one (who is not so little anymore, he just turned six) wanted to make his own Valentine’s Day cards for his friends. Although I’m not the crafty type, I cringed and unwillingly agreed.

So I quite shockingly came up with a fun Valentine’s Day card craft for kids:

Buy some construction paper in various shades of pink, red and/or purple. Cut out two sizes of hearts – one larger and one smaller in the different shades. Use a patterned edge scissor for either the outside or inside heart. This part is better left to the adult.

With a glue stick, glue the smaller heart into the larger heart. My son started the process but got tired after a while so I took over.

Have your child write their special message to their friend on the card. Then, using a hole punch, punch a whole at the top right corner of the heart twice – one beside the other, making room for a pencil to fit through the hole. Punch another hole at the bottom left corner.

Push a Valentine’s themed pencil through the top and bottom holes.

And there you have it. Martha Stewart over here deserves a real pat on the back…I’m not a crafty person at all but this was fairly easy.

Here is a pinnable image:

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Oh Valentine, where are thou???

Here are my top picks for best Valentines Day poems:

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore

I love thee – I love thee,
‘Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood

Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: –
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes

My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We’ll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
~John Donne

I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands.
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
~William Butler Yeats

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
~William Shakespeare

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day’s Saint Valentine’s.
For that good bishop’s sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton

Valentine’s Day Card Craft for Kids

Best Valentines Day Poems