Candy or not, here comes FUN! Craft your heart out with hands-on, paper-based projects that make great valentine gifts and awe-inspiring decorations. Discover Valentine’s Day classroom decorating ideas, easy do-it-yourself treat bags, party crowns, cards, and more.

Our Grade Is Sweet! Valentine’s Day Bulletin Board

Kids will love seeing what a treat they are to teach! Recognize students with a chocolate box bulletin board display featuring the ultimate signs of Valentine’s Day: pink & red, hearts, and candies! This bulletin board brings just the right amount of excitement to elementary classrooms and sets the scene for Valentine’s Day parties.

Detailed, printable instructions are available here.

You'll need:

• Red Sparkle Terrific Trimmers®
• Gold Metallic Terrific Trimmers®
• Chocolate Brown Terrific Trimmers®
• White Terrific Trimmers®
• White Ready Letters®
• Gold Metallic 4" Casual Ready Letters®
• Colored paper
• Paper cupcake liners
• White paint marker
• Scissors, double-stick tape, glue, other supplies as needed

Add a paper background to the bulletin board you’ll use for this display.

Layer bulletin board borders to trim the outside of your display. We used White and Red Sparkle Terrific Trimmers®, but choose any Valentine-themed colors you like.

Write your headline in punch-out letters. Elementary students will love seeing a bulletin board customized with their grade number.

Candy time! Cut the base of the chocolate box from heavy card stock and cover it in light pink paper. Create a second pink heart out of paper to use as the box lid. We lined the heart-shaped base with a white scalloped border (about an inch in from the edge) to give the box some depth and extra frills!

Attach a gold ruffle along the very outside of the heart box. Create this ruffle out of strips of gold paper borders. Simply accordion-fold the trimmer strips at a variety of angles to give it eye-catching pleats. Fancy and FUN!

To create chocolates for the candy box, cut and fold strips of Chocolate Terrific Trimmers®. Write student names on the center of each square using a white paint marker. Nest your chocolates in paper cupcake liners and add to the box. Create additional candies using Red Sparkle and Gold Metallic Terrific Trimmers® - they’re great filler for your candy box and add shimmering pops of color too! Place all candies in the box.

Scalloped borders are perfect for paper bows. Add a looped bow to the chocolate box lid. Simply make one long loop + one short loop + one flat strip. Arrange and tape together. We prefer to use double-sided tape or foam tape. If you used glue on your candy box, wait for it to dry before hanging your chocolate box and lid on the bulletin board display. What a treat! 

Scratch ‘n Sniff Valentine Crowns

Celebrate like kings and queens of hearts with these fun, scented crowns! Make this wearable craft in time for your classroom Valentine’s Day party.

Detailed, printable instructions are available here.

You'll need:

• Red Sparkle Terrific Trimmers®
• Gold Metallic Terrific Trimmers®
• Valentine-themed Scratch 'n Sniff Stinky Stickers®
• Chenille stems
• Tape, scissors

Supply Red Sparkle and Gold Terrific Trimmers® for the crown base. Make two-sided crowns, add a center strip, layer the colors, or just choose your favorite. Cut the borders to fit each head.

Give your Valentine’s Day crowns the royal treatment! Twist chenille stems into fun springy shapes and sandwich the ends between matching stickers.

Decorate the headband area with Valentine-themed stickers too. Remember to gently scratch your scented stickers when you add them to your crown so they smell extra sweet! When you’re done decorating, tape the crowns into shape.

 

Sweetheart Candy Holders

Give a wholehearted valentine message with these sweet candy holders!

Detailed, printable instructions are available here.

You'll need:

• I ♥ Metal™ Hearts Mini Accents Variety Pack
• Ribbon, glitter, stickers, markers and other supplies as needed
• Candy or non-food treats

Our Hearts Mini Accents cutouts can be layered and glued into pockets and adorable cards filled with candies. Add your own special touches with ribbon, glitter, and stickers. These make sweet additions to Valentine’s Day tables and place settings too. Need ideas for stickers and phrases? Check out our valentine message ideas below!

 

Three-fold Valentine Cards

Children will love creating their own cards to hand out to classmates on Valentine’s Day. These mimic the style of traditional classroom valentines, but you can personalize them straight from the heart! We love mixing playful characters and modern patterns – perfect for making unique cards for a whole class of kids.

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Forever Flowers: Paper-crafted Roses

If you’re looking for a great gift or festive Valentine’s Day decoration that doesn’t require wall space, paper flowers are a wonderful idea.

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Cartoon Candy Holders

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Hanging Hearts Decorations

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Heart, heart, hooray! Celebrate this popular Valentine’s Day symbol with heart-shaped dangling decorations that can be hung individually or as paper chains. Dress your classroom, break room, or office to impress with these easy Valentine’s Day decorations.

We made our hearts two-sided, and if you ask us, that makes them twice as FUN!

Choose paper borders in a variety of patterns, sparkles, and solids. Cut strips from the borders any width you like (or use the whole border), just make sure you make four strips in each size and length to accommodate for the double-sided decorations.

Tape the borders back-to-back and secure into heart shapes using tape or staples. Attach fishing line, ribbons, or chenille stems to the hearts and hang from ceilings, in doorways, around windows, and along school hallways for a warm welcome.

Pop-up, Dimensional Valentine Cards!

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Cute, Quick & Easy Valentine Cards

Be mine, simple DIY! Need a quick card? We’ve got you covered!

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Paper-Heart Garland

Looking for a Valentine’s Day decoration that’s easy and FUN? This pretty, paper-heart garland makes truly darling party décor and only requires a few simple supplies.

Detailed, printable instructions are available here.

You’ll need:

• Red Sparkle Terrific Trimmers®
• Gold Metallic Terrific Trimmers®
• Artsy Heartsy Scratch ‘n Sniff Stinky Stickers®
• Chenille stems, string, scissors, and glue or tape

Cut hearts out of sparkling paper trimmers and set aside for use on other garland designs. Leave the heart-shaped openings as silhouettes or have fun filling them in … your choice! To fill the hearts, tape chenille steps to the backs of the trimmers and stick heart stickers to each stem. Position them to peek through or above the holes. Hearts on hearts? Yes!

It also looks good to leave the heart shapes empty and arrange stickers on the trimmer strips between the cut-outs for a burst of color and interest. The best part? We used cherry-scented stickers! Stick the hearts on and give them a gentle scratch to release the scent. Every time someone walks by they’ll get a whiff of cherry. Yum!

Use the sparkling paper hearts previously set aside to accent heart cut-outs from a complementary color like Gold Metallic. Crease the red hearts down the center make them pop when layered. Tie your heart chain together with a string of your choice.

Hang your spectacular garland across desks, doorways, windows, and use for showcasing the treat table at a Valentine’s Day party!

Wild Party Favor Treat Pockets

Library pockets make eye-catching and easy treat bags. Lend DIY-designer flair with photos, felt, stickers, ribbon, and any other personal touches.

Detailed, printable instructions are available here.

You'll need:

• Library pockets
• Assorted add-ons (felt, stickers, ribbon, etc.)
• Glue or double-sided tape
• Treats

Choose the base for your treat pockets from our wide variety of library/Terrific Pockets™: animal prints, patterns, and characters all make really fun backgrounds.

Cut hearts out of burlap or colorful paper and layer on top.

Time for treats! Drop heart-shaped candies, chocolates, stickers, photos, bookmarks, and special messages into the pockets for a surprise family and friends will treasure.

They are so easy to make you’ll have lots of DIY treat bags D-O-N-E in no T-I-M-E!

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