How to celebrate Valentine’s Day with kids
Last Updated on February 24, 2025
Spending Valentine’s Day with kids is a great way to teach children about love and kindness, and can also help to strengthen relationships between family members.
If you’re looking for some ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day with kids, or are after some inspiration on how to strengthen family bonds, no matter the time of year, here are some ideas that you may like to try.
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Valentine’s books for kids
There are many Valentine’s books for kids that you can read with your kids to help them understand the meaning of love, and the importance of showing other’s kindness.
Some of these books include:
- Click, Clack, Moo I Love You
- Love from the Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Mr. Men Little Miss Love
- Pete the Cat’s Groovy Guide to Love
- The Dinosaurs Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s breakfast for kids
A great way to start Valentine’s Day is with a Valentine’s breakfast for kids, that adults can enjoy as well, here are some kid friendly ideas:
Valentine’s lunchbox ideas
If your kids will be at school on Valentine’s Day, some easy Valentine’s Day themed school lunchbox ideas that you could put into your kid’s school lunchboxes include:
- Cutting sandwiches into heart shapes using a heart cookie cutter
- Putting fruit inside a heart shaped cupcake case
- Adding a heart shaped cookie or chocolate as a treat
Valentine’s baking ideas
Another fun way to spend Valentine’s Day with kids is to bake together, some easy Valentine’s baking ideas are:
Valentine’s craft ideas
Kids love craft projects, making Valentine’s crafts a great way to spend quality time with your kids either on Valentine’s Day, or anytime leading up to it.
Some Valentine’s craft ideas are:
- A love jar, in the lead up to Valentine’s Day leave a jar with paper and a pen next to it, so each family member can write a note to another family member detailing anything positive, which will be read to family members on Valentine’s Day
- Decorating your home with heart shaped cut outs, or pink and red balloons
- Making personalised Valentine’s Day cards with paper, stickers, markers, and glitter
Valentine’s Day games
A great way for kids to spend time at home is to do some games, with a Valentine’s feel to them.
Here’s some ideas:
Valentine’s Olympics
Set up some obstacles or relay races around your home, or outside, and whoever completes them first wins candy hearts.
Candy spoon race
Just like one of the best known Pancake Day activities, you could have a spoon race, but instead of using an egg, use a spoon full of candy.
Whoever can transfer the most candy hearts from one bowl to their own bowl from one end of a room to the other, wins the candies in the bowls.
Love note scavenger hunt
A love note scavenger hunt involves cutting out paper hearts, allocating a different coloured heart to each child, and writing things on the hearts that you enjoy doing with each child.
Once done, hide the hearts around your home, and let your children find them.
Acts of kindness
Doing acts of kindness for other family members is a lovely thing to do on Valentine’s Day.
Some acts of kindness ideas are:
- Helping each other with their kid friendly chores
- Helping each other with a problem
- Making a hot drink for another family member
- Making each other special treats
- Telling each other how much you love and appreciate them
Valentine’s movie night
A cosy way to spend Valentine’s Day afternoon or night, is by having a family movie night.
Some Valentine’s Day movies you could watch are:
- Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown
- The Princess and the Frog
- True: Happy Hearts Day
- Wall-E
- Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You
Valentine’s Day with kids – a recap
Celebrating Valentine’s Day with kids is about more than giving gifts and eating chocolate. It’s about teaching your kids the importance of love and kindness.
There are many fun Valentine’s activities for kids that you can do, some include:
- Reading Valentine’s books together
- Having a Valentine’s breakfast, adding a special touch to your kid’s lunchboxes, or baking together
- Doing Valentine’s crafts like making a love jar, decorating your home, or making Valentine’s Day cards
- Playing games like Valentine’s Olympics, candy spoon races, or a love themed scavenger hunt
- Doing acts of kindness for other family members
- Having a family movie session
Incorporating some of these activities into your Valentine’s Day is a great way to strengthen family bonds, as well as start some family traditions that you’ll carry on into future Valentine’s Days.
How do you spend Valentine’s Day with your kids?
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