Valentine's Day crafts for preschoolers : free printable cards

Valentine’s Day crafts for preschoolers are a fun opportunity for them to make something special for their friends and family, while also helping to develop their fine motor skills. Here is a free printable template of 2 adorable blank Valentine “letters” for your child to cut out and color. They’re complete with little stamps and cancel marks.

Valentine's Day printable drawn on by a preschool child.

Ideas for decorating these Valentines:

These cards are best when printed onto colorful cardstock (construction paper works too!), as it will be the easiest for your child to hold on to and cut. Once cut, they can color them and decorate as they wish. Pull out the stickers and the glue and fun little paper scraps and let them have fun creating.

They’ll be so excited to show their family and friends what they’ve made for them.

For more Valentine’s Day fun, check out these Valentine’s Day math activities.

Valentine's Day crafts for kids - child using scissors to cut out letter from cardstock — Cutting out the cards is great for building hand strength and fine motor skills.

Besides Valentine’s Day crafts for preschoolers, what else can these printables be used for?

The templates are also great for imaginative play for anywhere letters can be used, such as to pretend they’re at the post office, delivering mail, or practicing writing names to “address” the letters.

These cards can also be printed on different colored papers for use on different holidays. For example, they’d be really cute on green paper for St. Patrick’s Day, and added to a leprechaun trap setup or on red paper if you need an Elf on the Shelf GOODBYE LETTER.

They can also be used as actual postcards that kids can have fun mailing to friends or relatives (use a sturdier cardstock for printing). Simply decorate the back side of the card and address/ stamp it as you would with any other postcard.

Valentine's Day crafts for kids - child using crayon to draw a heart on a valentine — Drawing a heart

Valentine's Day crafts for kids - finished valentine colored in by child using crayons and markers — Decided to color the entire card orange and add a cute sticker to the stamp. Done!

(After my preschooler finished decorating his Valentines, he wanted to cut out more and more of the letter templates. He kept delivering mail to us all over the house throughout the day 🙂