15 Valentine Coloring Pages
Valentine's Day on February 14 is named after Saint Valentine, and by the 1700s and 1800s people in England were exchanging handwritten notes and cards. Today kids often trade valentines with classmates, which makes coloring pages a natural fit. This collection is full of hearts in creative places. A heart floats on a balloon string, sits on a lollipop stick, tops an ice cream cone, grows on a tree trunk and is held shut with a padlock. Others show a heart pierced by an arrow, a double heart wrapped in ribbon, a heart candle, a rose with a heart, and tall stacks of three or five hearts. There is a friendship valentine, a cute heart and a cartoon cupid as well. Valentines do not have to be red and pink. Try purple, teal, gold or rainbow stripes. Kids can cut out the finished hearts and glue them on folded paper to make cards for friends, family or teachers. The single-heart pages work for toddlers, and the stacked and padlock designs suit older kids.
Hearts and cherubs
Cute Heart is as simple as it gets, one large heart outline with nothing else on the page, ready to fill with red, pink, stripes or polka dots. Cute Cupid shows a chubby cherub with curly hair and feathered wings squeezing a big heart, with rosy cheeks and bare feet kicking out below. Both give the littlest colorers wide open spaces, and the plain heart can double as a template for cutting out and writing a message.
Cards for friends
Friendship Valentine shows two fluffy puppies sitting face to face with a large heart between them, a sweet reminder that valentines can be for pals too. Valentine Card draws an open greeting card with a big heart in the middle, small hearts in the corners and daisies on both panels, with more flowers standing outside it. Kids can color the card and write a name inside the heart before handing it to a classmate or grandparent.
