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20 LOVE Activities & Crafts for Preschoolers to Make with Love (2024)

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The season of love deserves some LOVE crafts and activities, right? How about some for the kids to melt your heart with?

Love has been on my mind a lot the last couple of weeks(more so than usual) since I’ve been sharing my love with the kids every day with our Valentine scavenger hunt.

Sharing something I love about them each and every day.

The boys get so excited to not only find their heart, but to see what it is that I wrote that day.

And they get a big smile.

And I usually get a big hug.

Find 14 Valentine scavengerhunt ideas for kids to do here.

Our love hunt has beensuch a simple activity we’re doing and makes a huge impact!

It makes me wonder what other ways, activities, or things we can make, to show our love to each other more regularly.

How about some LOVEcrafts and activities?

Perfect for Valentine’s Day.

LOVE Crafts for Kids to Make

These are crafts that focus on love, the word.

Crafts that have the word LOVE.

And they’ll be ones to melt your heart for sure.

Crayon Resist LOVEfrom Simple As That
LOVE bannerfrom Hands on as We Grow
Tape Resist LOVEfrom Inner Child Fun
LOVE Garlandfrom Small for Big
I LOVE You Hand Suncatcherfrom Fantastic Fun & Learning
Hand & Footprint LOVE Signfrom 517 Creations
Hand & Footprint LOVE Canvasfrom Quad City Moms
I LOVE You Tape Artfrom Fun with Mama
LOVE Hearts Bannerfrom Creative Family Fun
LOVE Cards for Family & Friendsfrom Happy Toddler Playtime
LOVE Canvasfrom In The Playroom
Felt LOVE Buntingfrom It’s a Mom Thing

Want more? Check out our Valentine’s Day Crafts for Preschoolers That are Just Plain Cute!

Activities to Show Preschoolers LOVE

Of course, since we have had such success with our scavenger hunt, I want to include some love activities as well.

The ones where you can show each other, or tell each other, how much you love one another.

Hint: Keep these ideas handy for any time of year as a great reminder!

Create a LOVE scavenger hunt activity every day with a heart hidden that tells each child what you love about them.
Have the kids go on a scavenger hunt to find the things they LOVE.
Add a heart to their door every day that tells each child what you love about them. From Jones Design Company.
Make a “Reasons I LOVE You” Countdown Chain. From Over the Big Moon.
Try a round of the LOVE Game and add it to your list of go-to activities you love! From Making Life Blissful.
Makea LOVE collage in the shape of a heart. From There’s Just One Mommy
Teach kids how to choose LOVE, and show it! From Creative World of Varya
Send a LOVE books package to a friend! From The Educators’ Spin On It

Like I said before, you may want to keep these love activities available to use all year around.

Activities can be a great way to continually teach and show preschoolers what love is and how to show it.

Some other bloggers know exactly what I mean and have written about it a lot.

Always inspiring is Bounceback Parenting — find 100 every day ways to be kind to your child (and get the poster!).

And Coffee Cups & Crayons is all about teaching kids kindness. Check out her kindness LOVE wall!

How will you show your child all about LOVE?

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About Jamie Reimer

Jamie learned to be a hands on mom by creating activities, crafts and art projects for her three boys to do. Jamie needed the creative outlet that activities provided to get through the early years of parenting with a smile! Follow Jamie on Pinterest and Instagram!

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7 Comments

Melissa says
February 7, 2015 at 10:38 am

So many great activities. Loving the resist art.
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Lauren says
February 4, 2015 at 8:07 pm

Thanks so much for sharing our Love cards!
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- Jamie Reimer says
  February 4, 2015 at 8:35 pm
  
  They are soooo pretty Lauren.
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Theres Just One Mommy says
February 4, 2015 at 2:21 pm

Thanks for adding our Love Collage to this awesome list!
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