Valentine’s Day is around the corner. Your children may be starting to come home with little red hearts, and “Be Mine” candies. The past few years have been hard for families to get into the holiday spirit, and you are starting to wonder what to do for Valentine’s Day for kids. Everyone can use a little extra love in their lives, and you will want activities that your children will find fun, and also learn from.
We live in times where consumerism is overwhelming. How many times a day do your children ask you to buy the latest game or toy? If you pay attention to the commercial breaks during children’s shows, you may notice how the advertising is designed to instill in your children the need to immediately buy more and more things. Now is the time to teach our little ones that love is not shown through spending lots of money. You need Valentine’s Day ideas for kids that are inexpensive and show the true meaning of affection and sharing your heart. You need ideas that don’t involve shopping, and one upping your children’s friends.
Some Valentine’s Day activities for kids are based on art projects. Crafts are great, because they can be shared with others, and can be as inexpensive as your creativity allows. An activity where your whole family can sit around the table and bond over whatever they are making is sure to make a warm Valentine’s memory. Arts and crafts projects are not for everyone though! Many parents cringe at the glitter mess, and sticky, gluey child safety scissors that can quickly get ruined in an adventurous toddler’s hands. Older kids may feel that greeting card making is only for the younger ones. You are looking for something more universal and contained, that the whole family can enjoy!
Valentine’s Day Desserts
Gathering around the table to share a meal is a wonderful way to mark a special day. Eating is an enjoyable pastime for all, and Valentine’s Day dessert ideas are on your mind. Chocolate covered strawberries are beautiful and traditional, but have you seen the grocery strawberries in February? Bruised, and barely sweet, working with strawberries in the dead of winter will bring an “if only they were better” vibe to the proceedings.
A quick google search for V-day treats will show you elaborate and complicated chocolate desserts that you know will be too challenging for your family to enjoy trying to create on their own. You can just imagine the previously melted chocolate, now all over the kitchen floor, with you on your knees scraping it off. You may as well start pouring the glitter glue all over the couch and call it a day.
What you need are homemade Valentine’s desserts that are doable for a family with younger children. You want something simple, that will not create a kitchen mess, and that will taste delicious. Red velvet cake is a classic, but the idea of baking the cake, mixing the cream cheese icing, and then frosting it, seems like a massive undertaking. You could just buy something packaged up at the store. However, an excellent opportunity for your family to spend time and do something memorable together, would have been lost.
Easy Valentine desserts will keep your dishwasher duty to the minimum and allow you more time to make happy memories with the family. You deserve to find a family activity that everyone will enjoy, including mom and dad. You don’t want to play maid and referee! At Baketivity, we believe that you can have your red velvet cake and eat it too, and we have the solution for you. With our
Valentine’s Day baking kits, your family can enjoy baking cookies or cakes that are full of V-day spirit, without the V-day stress.
Make Valentine's Day Cookies
Valentine’s cookies are a sweet and fun treat to show your loved ones that you care. They can be individually wrapped, and you can eat as few or as many as you want. Cookies are portable and are made for sharing. However, baking can be taxing for the overwhelmed parents of today. Baketivity takes the anxiety out of the baking process, so that your family can enjoy mixing, baking, and decorating their V-day cookies.
This blondie cookie kit comes with colorful red candy melts that your children will enjoy using to festively decorate their blondies. They can write classic candy heart messages, draw curvy hearts, or make squiggly lines. Whether your child is three, or thirteen, they will be sure to find something they can enjoy in our Deluxe Valentine’s Day Blondie Kit.
These blondies are so delicious, they will not last long. However, the memories of baking these gooey delicacies without mom and dad being stressed over the mess, will last a lifetime. Teaching your kids the benefits of working hard to create something to share with others is priceless. The memory of the experience will be treasured more than any flashy new toy.
Our white chocolate blondie kit, an easy Valentine cookies idea, was carefully created with the Valentine’s day theme in mind. The kit comes in a red heart filled box, with lots of Valentine’s craft projects ideas. These extras will ensure that your kids will be busy and productive while waiting for their treats to cool off. While your house fills with the aroma of buttery, brown sugar notes, your children can use the enclosed greeting card template to create a special card for their special someone.
Make Valentine’s Day Cupcakes
Cupcakes are all the rage with kids, (and adults) these days! There are many different Valentine’s cupcake ideas, featuring strawberries, expensive chocolate, or even champagne. One of the most popular cake flavors for this time of year is red velvet!
Red velvet cupcakes are moist and lightly chocolate flavored with Dutch processed cocoa. It turns an amazing red through a chemical reaction between cocoa and vinegar. If you have ever stared at the bakery’s fancy Valentine’s cupcakes with longing, wondering if you could make red velvet Valentine cupcakes yourself, Baketivity has you covered. Our Red Velvet Cupcakes kit couldn’t be easier to use!
In addition to tasting great, these heart cupcakes come with special ingredients and a technique to be used to decorate them, in the spirit of your Valentine’s Day celebration. With the red candy melts, and piping bag, your children can learn how to make edible heart toppers. These cupcakes look elaborate, but our pre-measured ingredients make everything effortless. Our kit will teach your kids how to work with candy melts. They can create any designs they can imagine. They will grow confident in discovering how to work with a new “medium.”
This kit comes with an easy to read, step by step instruction manual, including a full shopping list. As always, there is an activity book to keep the kids busy during down time, as well as an educational Valentine’s themed activity. Much can be learned from the celebration of Valentine’s Day; it goes far beyond red and pink hearts. Love is sweeter when it’s shared, and this kit bakes 12 cupcakes. It’s time for your family to start thinking about who is going to receive a chocolatey hearts cupcake!
