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December 30, 2013 By Chelsey

Valentine Ideas: Homemade Playdough & Cookie Cutter Valentine

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We love homemade valentines and are always on the lookout for fun valentine ideas.  Here’s a simple and fun candy-free valentine your kids can help you put together using playdough. I’ve also included some free valentine printables to help make this valentine for kids even easier to put together!

Follow our Valentine’s Day for Kids Pinterest board!

 

Homemade Valentine for Kids: Play Dough and Cookie Cutter Valentine~ Buggy and Buddy

This playdough and cookie cutter valentine is one of our absolute favorites to make and pass out each year. It’s candy-free and so much fun to make and assemble with your child! (This post contains affiliate links.)

Homemade Playdough and Cookie Cutter Homemade Valentine for Kids

Homemade Valentine for Kids: Play Dough and Cookie Cutter Valentine~ Buggy and Buddy

Materials for Homemade Playdough Valentine

  • Homemade playdough  (Here’s our favorite playdough recipe.)
  • Heart shaped cookie cutters (Similar to these. I bought mine in the dollar bins at our local Target.)
  • Clear treat bags
  • Ribbon
  • Free valentine printable (link below in directions)
  • Scissors & gluestick
  • Optional: Cute scrapbooking paper (like this cute set)

Making the Homemade Playdough Valentine

1. Make your playdough and divide into individual portions. (The recipe linked above makes enough for 8 individual portions.) Roll each portion into a ball.

Homemade Valentine for Kids: Play Dough and Cookie Cutter Valentine~ Buggy and Buddy

 

2. Place one playdough ball and one cookie cutter into a treat bag. Tie it closed with ribbon.

3. Print out the free valentine printables to use for valentine tags. There are two versions to choose from.

 

Play Dough Valentine Printables~ Buggy and Buddy

 

The first version is a bit larger  and has a simple heart graphic. To use this version, I cut out the text and used a glue stick to attach it to some cute scrapbooking paper.

Play Dough Valentine Printable

Homemade Play Dough Valentine Printable~ Buggy and Buddy

 

The other version is a bit smaller and actually fits onto shipping sized labels (2 inch x 4 inch). You can simply print the text out onto the labels and then peel and stick them onto your scrapbooking paper. Then cut them apart!

Playdough Valentine Printable Labels (Shipping Size 2 in. x 4 in.)

Homemade Play Dough Valentine Printable Labels~ Buggy and Buddy

4. After preparing your valentine tags, punch a hole in the corner. There’s room below the text for your child to write his/her name if you’d like. Then just tie them to your ribbon.

Homemade Valentine for Kids: Play Dough and Cookie Cutter Valentine~ Buggy and Buddy

 

5. Your valentines and done and ready to be passed out to your friends or classmates!

 

Play Dough and Cookie Cutter Valentine for Kids w/ Free Printable Labels & Tags~ Buggy and Buddy

 Homemade Valentine with Playdough and Heart Cookie Cutters!




Filed Under: For Parents, Printables, Recipes for Playing & Creating, Valentine's Day Tagged With: homemade valentines, play dough, valentine's day, valentines

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