Building Hearts Activities for Engineering Play and Learn!

Building hearts for Valentine’s Day is a fun alternative to crafts! My little guy isn’t much into crafting, but he loves building! We did make one quick and easy, candy free Valentine card to hand out to his friends, but he loves our Valentine’s slime and Legos more! So if you don’t have kiddos interested in crafts, try some of these unique building hearts ideas.

Building Hearts Activities for Kids

All of these building hearts activities use simple materials you may already have or can easily pick up at the grocery store and hardware store.  These building hearts activities are wonderful alternative Valentine’s Day projects that encourage engineering, designing, and creativity! Our building heart activities are the first four in the list. The last four building hearts activities are from terrific bloggers I love to share ideas with year round.

Building Lego Hearts

Lego Heart Marble Maze

PVC Pipe Hearts Building

Cardboard Hearts Building Activity

Building Candy Heart Structures | Lemon Lime Adventures

Heart Marshmallow Toothpick Structures | Buggy and Buddy

Foam Heart Tangram Puzzles | And Next Comes L

Light Up Circuit Valentine Hearts | Left Brian Craft Brain

Encourage your child to explore various design possibilities. Let them make mistakes, figure out a solution and try again! I bet you will all discover endless possibilities with these building hearts activities that will take you way beyond Valentine’s Day! In fact, we have used our PVC pipe pieces to build a simple pulley and design a small play house for super heroes!

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