How to: Healthy Valentine Treats to Give Away
on Jan 26, 2012, Updated Aug 21, 2024
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Healthy Valentine treat ideas to give as gifts, take to school, and give to your friends that are easy to make and come with cute phrases.
There are so many cute ideas for Valentine’s Day! Each of these handmade Valentines include a cute saying along with a healthy treat. Not mushy… just fun!
For your family celebration, consider making a simple felt heart garland that you can hang up for years to come. And then make a Valentine’s Chocolate and Cheese Board and give each kid a bag of Pink Valentine’s Popcorn.
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Why You’ll Love These Projects
- These are so easy to make with your kids. Even the littlest ones will enjoy helping with things like stickers.
- They are budget friendly and I have provided a few extra tips to help with the expense.
- You are sure to find something for any special diet (dairy-free, gluten-free, egg-free, vegan, etc).
- They are healthy-ish (and better than giving candy).
Expert Tips
- Check your local dollar store for some of the supplies like little zip-close baggies and foam stickers.
- Consider how much you want to spend and then decide on the right treat.
- Be sure to use pre-packaged snacks if you are taking these Valentine treats to school.
I’m Wild About You, Valentine
Treat: Animal Crackers (Giant 2 pound bag for $2.59, makes at least 30 bags)
Instructions:
- Fill up a little baggie with animal crackers, fold animal print paper over the edge of the baggie and staple it.
- Glue the sheet of paper with your words on it to the animal print (to cover the staple).
Knock, Knock
Who’s There?
Orange!
Orange Who?
Orange you glad it’s Valentine’s Day?
Treat: Fresh orange
Instructions:
- Cut a 4-inch long heart out of green paper and write the first 4 lines of the joke on the front.
- Cut a smaller light green heart, write the last line of the joke on it, and glue it to the back.
- Wrap 2 orange pipe cleaners around an orange, poke end through green hearts and twist to secure.
- Add a foam heart or “cutie mark” (like from My Little Ponies).
Fruity Valentine
Treat: Stretch Island Fruit Co. all-natural fruit strips (from Costco)
Instructions:
- Cut a 3.5 inch by 7 inch piece of paper.
- Fold the paper around the fruit leather and secure with a glue stick on the back.
- Cut another piece of paper and write your saying on it and attach with glue.
- Embellish with stickers.
Sayings:
- Have a “berry” great Valentine’s Day! (strawberry or raspberry fruit leather)
- You are the apple of my eye! (apple fruit leather)
- You are “grape”! Happy Valentine’s Day! (grape fruit leather)
Let’s stick together, Valentine!
Treat: Cheese stick
Instructions: Cut a piece of paper 3 inches wide and 6 inches long. Cut two holes about the size of a penny in the paper about one inch from each end. Add saying and embellish with stickers. Insert the cheese stick into the holes as shown. This is a great gluten-free, prepackaged idea!
You are a natural! Happy Valentine’s Day!
Treat: Nature Valley Granola Thin, or any other granola bar (These came in a box of 36, individually wrapped at The Dollar Store! That makes them about 3 cents per treat. Don’t worry. I bought 5 boxes!)
Instructions: Cut paper slightly bigger than your granola bar. Write your saying on the paper and use a glue stick to attach the granola bar right to the paper!
It’s Valentine’s Day! What’s “knot” to love?!
Our class would “knot” be the same without YOU!
Treat: Pretzels or if you are a real thrill seeker, chocolate-covered pretzels.
Instructions: Fill your treat bag. Cut a large heart and staple it to the top of the bag. Cut a smaller heart, write your message on it, and gluestick it to the bigger heart (covering the staple). You can make a rectangle top by cutting a paper as wide as you’d like and twice as long. Fold the paper in half and staple to the top of the filled treat bag. Glue another paper with your saying on top to cover the staple.
You’re the snApple of my eye!
Now Snapple isn’t something I would give away to every kid in the class, but it would make a cute teacher gift or something nice to stick in the hubby’s lunch box!
Treat: Snapple Juice
How to: Cut a large heart and write your saying on it (outline it with another paper if you like). Put a piece of tape in the middle of a pipe cleaner and attach it to the back of the heart. Twist the pipe cleaner around the neck of the bottle.
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Thank you for the inspiration! We featured your yogurt bites as a Valentine’s Day snack recipe on our recent round up post -> https://www.brashearkids.com/2015/02/round-up-10-healthy-valentines-day.html
We would love for you to check it out!
I mean we featured your Animal Cracker Valentine snack on our recent blog post.
Got any cute quotes for giving pink grapefruit? My first grader’s teacher loves pink grapefruit so that’s what she’s getting 🙂
Hhhmm. “I think you’re GRAPE” and just forget the fruit? That a tough one…
Yeah true I could do that. Thank you!
Thank you sooo much! I have a 1yr. old boy who has a dental condition & I was feeling downhearted that I couldn’t give him a good valentine, until I found your blog. Him & his older brother will now be getting an animal cracker, snApple, & valentine stuffed animal combo, today! Now I get to feel excited for them both. 🙂
This totally made my day! Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and Happy V-day 🙂
These are great, healthy alternatives…thanks for sharing your ideas! We were just told no candy in the classroom for Valentine’s Day so I almost panicked having prepared my son’s cards and treats last week.
These are wonderful! My kiddos made the orange valentines for their teachers and my oldest chose to make the fruit leather valentines for his classmates…thanks for a fun twist on Valentine’s Day treats!
PS: I think I’m going to suggest a few Valentine ideas next week on my site, do you think I could write a blurb about you and project and link it to you?/g at willowday
I love your ORANGE VALENTINE idea! What a clever idea! (super cool that it’s with healthy food and is so neat and easy!) I think I am going to do this with both my children and with my 2nd grader English class! Well done and thanks for sharing! I’ll return to your site and would be complimented if you came and visited my brand, new site, too: gina at http://www.willowday.com
I love these! They are super adorable 🙂 I really like this list of heart shaped foods but your healthy valentines spin is awesome too! All great ideas!
So so cute! I feel the same way about treats. For our little preschool we are going to put cream into little baby food jars with marbles and shake em till they turn to butter (I still need to try this and make sure it works) and write “I love you ‘butter’ than anything!” it’ll be for the mamas. But I might steal one of your ideas to give to the kids, thanks for sharing!
Butter is love if you ask me. Mmmm. Butter.
Such a cute idea! Now I may do it for out preschool group too!
All very cute!!!