Creative Handmade Valentine's Day Crafts for Kids

Valentines Day for kids is a great way to show your love and appreciation for them. Celebrate the season of love with shared activities and gifts for your kids. Valentine's Day is the perfect occasion to pamper your loved ones with gifts. Not everyone can afford diamond necklaces or vacation coupons. Valentine Day crafts come in large varieties like heart-shaped candies, pretty cards, photo frames, foam roses, heart pins, heart-shaped glasses, necklaces, card holders, love books, the list goes endless. Here, we bring you easy Valentine craft ideas. So get set to surprise your beloved with these Valentine's Day crafts.

Sweet Treat Garlands

Create candy garlands that you can use as gifts for kids. Collect patterned cupcake liners and candy cubes in different colors. Help your children string the liners and candy cubes with wi
re to make charming garlands. Hang the garlands on your window sills to add to the Valentine festivities. Create decorative pink and white flower wreaths by gluing pink and white paper flowers with colorful beads and lace heart cutouts on wreath forms. Place the wreaths on the entrance and on the doors inside your home as a creative way to celebrate Valentines Day for kids.

Valentines Necklace

Heart necklace is a very cute gift that can be presented to your beloved. A heart symbolizes love and giving your loved a heart portrays handing over one’s existence to another. And it becomes even more personal, romantic and charming when you make it yourself.

Hand Painted Wine Glass

Drinking your favorite wine out of a romantic wine glass has no comparisons. Now, if the glass is a special Valentine hand painted wine glass, it cannot be compared to anything in this world. Hand painted wine glasses are simply the most wonderful gifts that you can present your beloved.

Heart Trees

Collect small branches and remove the leaves. Spray glitter paint on the branches. Get the kids to cut out heart shapes in different colors from construction paper. Add glitter, sequins or stickers on the hearts to make them attractive. Kids can also paint their own patterns. Secure the hearts on the branches with glue. Bring home small red vases for the kids so they can "plant" their heart trees by arranging the branches in the vase. Use the vase as table decor for your Valentines Day decorations.

Custom Potato Stamps

Carve potatoes to create the desired shape. Start by making a simple design using a marker on a halved potato. Cut around the design to create a raised stamp design. Kids can dip these potato stamps in colorful paints to make their own patterns on construction paper.

Photo Frames

Use craft paper in solid colors to cut out fun shapes of people, animals or even favorite cartoon characters. Paste the cutouts on colored papers in contrasting shades. Ask the kids to write their special messages at the bottom of the pages. Create borders for this artwork using long lengths of black paper and gluing them along the sides.

Valentine Banquet Games For 2015

Valentine's Day banquets are always memorable occasions because they usually include funny antics, games and activities for couples to enjoy. If you're planning one for the Christian adult crowd, the ideas here will supply the guests with hours of fun and plenty of food for thought.

Valentine Games for Banquets

These games are best played in groups of couples to bring out their essence. As you proceed, you'll notice that most of these have a theme of bonding running through them, so when you're in these games with the significant other on that Valentines day banquet, it should be a whole lot of fun for you.

"Share Where" Game

The "Share Where" game should only be played with five or six couples because of time restrictions. Start by sending the women out of the room. Then ask the men three questions about their wives or girlfriends that include where they met, where he proposed and where they went on their first date. They should write their answers down on large pieces of paper or poster board. Next, send the men out and ask the ladies three similar questions. It is always interesting to see how the ladies fare in comparison to the gentlemen, and the game is sure to cause a couple of "disagreements" that will provide plenty of laughs for the crowd.

Candy-Flour Run

This is one of the most entertaining games that you can include at that party. At one end of the room, set up a table which has a paper plate filled with flour and a candy buried deep inside it. All the couples stand at the end of the room with their hands tied behind. At the blow of the whistle, one partner runs to the plate and retrieves the candy from inside the plate without using his hands and only the mouth. Once he retrieves the candy, he runs to his partner who is standing with a plastic cup in his/her mouth and drops the candy in. The partner then has to run to the side tables again on the other side of the room where the paper plates have been replaced by bowls by volunteers. The couple who manages to get the candy into that bowl first, wins.

Blind Feeds

Blindfold the women and give them a bowl of pudding with a spoon. On the other end of the room, get all the male partners to sit on chairs with a cloth over their shirts. At the blow of the whistle, the men have to direct their partner over to them and then give them directions to feed them the pudding with the spoons, while the women are still blindfolded. The couple that manages to finish all the pudding, wins. This can get really messy and noisy, but it's one of the best ideas.

Candy Wraps

Let's start out with a fun party game for adults for the season. Have all the couples stand against a table which has bowls of candy wrapped in it. Make each of them wear mittens. At the blow of the whistle, each couple has to work through the bowl of candies, unwrap them and either eat them or transfer the open candy in an empty jar kept on the side. The mittens will make it so, so tough to get through the batch and there is bound to be a lot of nervous tension running through. The couple that manages to finish the entire batch, wins. Or the couple that has worked through the most candy wraps at the blow of the whistle, wins.