Nothing is cuter than some adorable DIY animal Valentines for Kids to make this Valentine’s Day, and we have some easy ideas to try!

When Valentine’s season comes around, it’s not just hearts and pink that make an appearance; you’ll also notice an abundance of cute animals everywhere, acting as little messengers of love. Not convinced? Look around and you’ll see we’re right!

We’re not exactly sure why this is so, but we thought it would be fun to see how animals would celebrate Valentine’s Day (if they were aware of the concept).

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Interesting Courtship Rituals in Animals:

Prairie Voles – They can detect when their mates are stressed, and when they notice, they offer them hugs and kisses
Nursery Web Spiders – If a male is interested in a female, he brings her a tiny bundle of food wrapped in beautiful white spider silk. The female inspects the gift and if she’s satisfied, she accepts.
Adelie Penguins – The males collect little rocks and present them to the object of their affection. If the female accepts, she takes the rocks and uses them to line her nest.
Satin Bowerbirds – The male bird builds a bower that looks like a tower of sticks and decorates it with only blue objects, including ribbon or plastic. Once the female approves, he still has to do a dance before she accepts.
Porcupines – Once a male porcupine is interested in a female, he sprays her with urine, but he has to catch her at the right time since female porcupines are only receptive 48 hours in a year.

Okay, those were some strange rituals! Thankfully, we humans don’t have to do all that – some cute DIY animal Valentines for kids will work!

20 Adorable DIY Animal Valentines for Kids

1. Heart Fox Valentine Craft for Kids

Calling someone foxy is quite the compliment, and that’s what makes this fox heart craft a winner in our list of DIY animal Valentines for Kids! You can also write an additional message in the little heart he’s holding in his paws!

2. Sloth Heart Valentine Craft

Sloths may be famous for being extremely slow, but making this craft will be a fast affair, considering it comes with its own free printable template! Just download, print and follow the instructions to make this cute sloth!

3. Handmade Felt Valentine Owl Craft

Owls tend to have the image of being old, wise and withdrawn from others, but not this little guy! She looks perfectly happy to send your love, and she’s got bright colors and shiny bling to boot!

4. DIY Heart Unicorn Paper Craft

We never said that our list of DIY animal Valentines for Kids couldn’t include fantasy animals! This craft shows you how to turn a heart shape into a unicorn head, and the rainbow mane and horn add an extra dimension!

5. Valentine’s Day Clay Teddy Bear

It’s hard to have a list of DIY animal Valentines for kids without featuring a bear, isn’t it? This guy here is made of clay, and he’s got a little red heart clasped firmly in his paws! You can add a magnet at the back to stick him up on the fridge.

6. Valentine’s Clay Penguin Photo Holder

How cute is this little penguin couple? It looks like they’re getting married, which is not surprising since penguins are largely monogamous, so they might as well make it official!

7. Cute and Easy DIY Ladybug Valentine Card

You’ve heard of love bugs, and they’re usually represented by ladybugs with little hearts. Well, we hate to burst your bubble, but love bugs are actually flies, and they have nothing to do with love!

8. Adorable Penguin Heart Bookmark Craft

Penguins make another appearance in our list of DIY animal Valentines for kids, and this time they’re here to help you hold your place in your book. They’re hugging a heart, but they also have space to hug the corner of your page!

9. Heart Elephant Craft for Kids

You’ve heard of showering someone with love, and our little elephant here has taken it quite literally, showering everyone with love using his trunk! This is a fun craft for little kids, who’ll enjoy sticking the parts together.

10. Cute and Easy Heart Hedgehog Craft for Kids

Hedgehogs may be prickly, but certainly not this guy here! Not only is he smooth and cute, he also comes bearing a little heart, which you can use to pass a little message to that special someone in your life.

11. Paper Tube Valentine Bear Craft

It’s high time we make some DIY animal Valentines for kids out of toilet paper tubes, and that’s where Hello Wonderful comes in, with an adorable paper tube bear craft! We love that you can insert a little note inside the tiny envelope!

12. Hug A Pompom! Animal Valentine’s Cards

We love these little DIY animal Valentines for kids from Mr. Printables, especially all those woolly Valentine puns! Making the pompoms is the main part of this craft, then it’s just a question of putting everything together.

13. DIY Felt Love Bird Ornament

A list of DIY animal Valentines for kids is not complete without love birds, is it? Big Family Blessings helps fix that by giving us a free pattern to make a pair of cute felt love birds with heart-shaped wings.

14. DIY Cricut Koala Valentine’s Day Card

If you’d like to combine a Valentine gift and card, you should try out this easy craft from Giggles Galore. It features a koala whose arms cross over, and you can fit in something small between his arms, like a lollipop or candy cane!

15. Puppy Paper Bag Valentine Card Holder Craft

You’ve heard of the term ‘puppy eyes’, but our little guy here brings them to life in this craft from Crafty Kids Play! You can even customize his name, especially if you have a pet of your own.

16. Mouse Valentine Craft For Kids

These mice from Simple Everyday Mom have no doubts about what they want – they want you! They’re super cute and a great way for a shy person to let their special someone know how they feel.

17. Woodland Animal Candy Huggers Papercraft

Woodland animals needn’t be restricted to Fall; they can also feature in a list of DIY animal Valentines for kids! Lia Griffith shows us how to make these simple candy huggers, and you can choose one or make them all.

18. Colorful Valentine Hedgehog Craft

A hedgehog who has little hearts instead of spines – what a wonderful idea! Fireflies and Mudpies brings this idea to life with a cute handmade Valentine’s Day card and we love both versions – the pink and the colorful.

19. Easy Butterfly Heart Card

Baker Ross has a butterfly craft that’s a great choice for young kids, who’ll get a chance to play around with construction paper, jewels, and pipe cleaners – all at once!

20. Wooly Be My Valentine Sheep Cards

One of the most fun parts of making DIY animal Valentines for kids is the wordplay – you can do so much with animal names and terms of endearment! This sheep one from Hello Wonderful made us chuckle and we love it!

DIY animal Valentines for kids are always popular, and we hope you’ve got some new ideas from this list. These are great, not just for young kids, but some of the older ones too. Love doesn’t have any age limits, and neither do Valentine’s Day crafts!

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