Valentines Day Ideas for Kids – Love Bug Fruit Cups

Last Updated on February 3, 2020

I absolutely love my holidays, and I have some super cute Valentine’s day ideas for kids. Valentine’s day is one of my favorite holidays and I think it’s largely due to the colors. I love the pinks and reds and so does Riley, which of course makes it ten times the fun. With Riley in a preschool that has a strict policy on bringing in homemade foods, I’ve taken to creating cute holiday-themed characters from fruit cups. For Christmas, we had Reindeer, while this Halloween we had Frankensteins because last year was Pumpkins. It only seemed appropriate that we have Love Bug Fruit Cups as a great Valentines day idea for kids.

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Our Love Bug Fruit Cups are just one of the great Valentines day ideas for kids and are so cute. It took me a total of 20 minutes to make 12 of these for Riley’s class. The supplies that you need are:

Valentines Day Ideas for Kids – Love Bug Fruit Cups Supplies for 12 kids

12 Dole Pineapple in Sugar-Free Strawberry Gel Fruit Cups
12 Sparkle Pipe Cleaners cut in half to make 24
1.3″ Pom Poms for ends of Pipe Cleaners
12 1/2″ Pom Poms for nose
24 Assorted colors and size of Googley Eyes
2 Pink Foam Sheet for heart-shaped feet to create 24 heart-shaped feet
4 Hot glue sticks & Gun

For these Valentines Day ideas for kids, I freehanded our hearts for our feet because I happened to already have pink foam leftover from our Bunny Tail Mix Push Pops. The Bunny Push Pops are from when Riley was in daycare and I was able to make homemade foods for the children at daycare. We also have a Lucky Pop Breakfast with free printable that is super cute and easy for St. Patrick’s day, which gets me excited about my St. Patrick’s Day fruit cup. Think about lots of colors. Squeal! Back to the task at hand though. Valentines Day ideas for kids that’ll make you look like mom of the year. Sorry! Instead of free handing the foam hearts, you could always purchase pre-cut foam hearts as well.

Valentines Day Ideas for Kids – Love Bug Fruit Cups Tutorial

Hot glue the sparkle pom poms to the end of the pipe cleaners to make antennae.
Next hot glue the googley eyes and small pom pom as a nose the fruit cup.
Then hot glue the foam hearts to the bottom of the fruit cup as feet.
The final step is to hot glue the antennae to the back of the fruit cup.

In order to put together these Love Bug Fruit Cups, you’re going to start by gluing the sparkle pom poms to the ends of the sparkle pipe cleaners, which I cut in half before beginning. You’ll also want to hot glue the googley eyes and tiny pom pom onto the front of the fruit cup to create the face. Next, hot glue the hearts onto the bottom of the cups so that the hearts are sticking out. The final step is to glue the antenna to the back of the fruit cup so that it will stick straight up. Ta-Da!

Valentines Day Ideas for Kids – Love Bug Fruit Cups

These are great Valentines day ideas for kids and a great alternative to candy crafts. Plus, it’s a craft that the kids can get involved in, minus the hot gluing part of course.