Valentine's Day Branch
Find an interesting branch outside, bring it home, place it in a container and decorate it for Valentine's Day.
You could paint it red, pink, silver, gold, etc. or just leave it natural (if you leave it natural, apply glue instead to make the stuff stick.
While the paint or glue is still dry, add glitter.
Cut out different colors of hearts from construction paper, punch holes in them and thread with thin ribbon or different colors of thread and hang from the branches (you could also stick on different Valentine's Day type stickers on the little hearts).
Use thread to tie other stuff to the branches, such as red lifesavers, Hershey's Kisses (tie a thread around the little thing that sticks up from the top of the Kiss.
Use your imagination, you'd be suprized how easy it is to come up with ideas.
Take a shoe box and wrap in red construction paper. Take off the lid and wrap that separately.
Decorate the shoebox any way you'd like. You could cut out different colors of hearts (except red), also stick on Valentine's Day stickers, cut cartoon funnies out of newspapers and stick them on with scotch tape, use glue in little areas of the shoebox and sprinkle on glitter, glue on Valentine's Day Conversation Hearts and cinnamon red hots, cut out a bigger heart and write on a little valentines day poem.
Fill the box with valentine's day treats such as assorted candies and miniature candy bars, small artificial roses, love notes, cassette tape of favorite music, etc. Use your imagination.
This Valentine's Day gift box could also be used as a mailbox by slitting a hole in the top of the lid so that valentine's day cards can be inserted.
Take red construction paper and draw a large heart shape on it (don't fold the paper, try to draw the heart free hand).
Cut out the heart
Take a favorite photograph and glue the picture to a small lace doily and then glue the doily to the red heart. Sprinkle the heart with glitter.
Write a funny or romantic valentine poem underneath the photograph.
Make up a batch of clay dough by mixing the following ingredients together in a bowl::
3 cups Flour
1 cup Salt
1/2 cup Oil
Red food coloring** You could also divide the dough into 3 or 4 portions and add different colors of food coloring to each portion.
Bake at 225 degrees F. for about 2 hours, turning the dough at intervals during baking. Turn a few times more after they come out of the oven.Cut the dough into shapes using small heart-shaped cookie cutters (or any shapes you'd like). Poke small holes in the dough and string through with thread or thin lace to make a Valentine's Day Necklace.
Take graham crackers and frost them using your favorite recipe.
Stick on Valentine's Day Candy Conversation Hearts to tell your valentine how you feel about them. Outline your message with cinnamon red hots.
Take this one step farther by using frosting to "glue" together more than one graham cracker so you can add hershey's kisses, miniature chocolate bars, etc. to your valentines day card.
You can also use graham crackers to make a Valentine's Day gingerbread house.
Kids of all ages enjoy fingerpainting.
Make up a batch of vanilla pudding and add red food coloring (or separate the pudding into different batches and add different colors of food coloring).
Have fun creating special valentine's day pictures and messages.
Cut a potato in half.
Carve a heart shape out of the potato in such a way that the heart is raised.
Press the potato stamp in a red stamp pad and stamp on the paper.
Make your own Valentines Day writing paper by stamping the hearts down the left edge of the paper.