About these Valentine's Day coloring pages
Valentine's Day coloring pages are the easiest way to make a valentine by hand: hearts of every size, bears holding balloons, envelopes sealed with a heart, bouquets of roses, cupid with his bow and cards that say "Be mine" or "You're my favorite" in big bubble letters. Our free printable Valentine's Day pages include simple hearts for toddlers, card-sized pages for classroom exchanges and detailed heart mandalas for teens and adults.
Print them on US Letter or A4 paper at home or at school, or color them online. One printed page can become a card for a grandparent, a note in a lunchbox, a heart garland for the window or a whole stack of valentines for every child in the class.
Valentines for the whole class
In many schools, children bring a valentine for every classmate on February 14. Buying a box of cards for twenty-five kids adds up quickly; printing a page with four small valentines on it, coloring them and cutting them apart costs only paper and is far more personal. Kids sign the back, and the teacher can check that nobody is left out.
Before the day, many classes make a "mailbox" for each child from a paper bag or a shoebox. A colored heart page glued on the front, with the child's name in bubble letters, turns a plain bag into a mailbox they will want to keep.
Valentine's Day is not only for couples. Kids give cards to friends, teachers, siblings, grandparents and even the bus driver, and a colored page says "I like you" without anything to buy.
Valentine symbols and what they mean
Each Valentine picture has a small story behind it, which is fun to share while coloring.
Symbols are also a gentle way to help young children choose who gets which card. A heart or a rose for mom or dad, a smiling bear or a balloon for a best friend, an envelope with "Thank you" for a teacher. Older kids can design their own valentine by combining two or three symbols on one page, such as a dove carrying an envelope over a field of small hearts, then adding a short rhyme of their own underneath.
- Hearts: the best-known symbol of love and friendship
- Red roses: a traditional flower for saying "I love you"
- Cupid: the winged boy with a bow from Roman stories, whose arrows make people fall in love
- Doves and lovebirds: birds that stay close to their partner
- Envelopes and letters: for the cards people have sent on February 14 for centuries
- XOXO: a short way to write hugs and kisses
Valentine's Day facts to share while you color
- Valentine's Day is celebrated every year on February 14 and is named after Saint Valentine.
- People in England were exchanging handwritten valentines by the 1700s, often with verses and drawings.
- In the 1840s, Esther Howland of Massachusetts began selling lace-trimmed valentines and helped make cards popular in the United States.
- In Japan, it is a tradition for women to give chocolates on February 14, and men return the gift on White Day, March 14.
- In Roman stories, Cupid is the son of Venus, the goddess of love, which is why he appears on so many valentines.
- Red roses have long stood for love, and they are one of the classic flowers given on February 14.
- In Finland the day is called Ystävänpäivä, or Friend's Day, and it celebrates friends rather than couples.
- Small candy hearts printed with short messages have been a Valentine's Day treat in the United States for well over a hundred years.
Which Valentine's Day page for which age
- Toddlers (2–3)
- One big heart or a simple balloon with thick lines. A red crayon and a few stickers are all they need.
- Preschool (3–5)
- Hearts to count and color in two colors, smiling animals holding a heart and short words like "Love" to fill in letter by letter.
- Kids (5–10)
- Pages with four mini valentines to cut out for classmates, cupid scenes and cards with space to sign a name. Start a few days early: coloring twenty-five valentines takes more than one evening.
- Teens and adults
- Heart mandalas, detailed rose bouquets and lettering pages to frame or give as a handmade card, a thoughtful alternative to a store-bought one.
Coloring tips and color ideas
- Go beyond red: try pink, coral, lilac and a deep berry color for a softer valentine.
- Color a heart darker at the edges and lighter in the middle so it looks puffy.
- Fill big hearts with patterns such as stripes, dots or tiny hearts.
- Give roses a dark red center and lighter outer petals to show their shape.
- Use glitter glue or a metallic gel pen on a few small hearts for a sparkle.
- Write the message on the back before cutting the valentines apart, so names do not get mixed up.
Ideas for home, school and parties
- Classroom valentines: print a page of mini cards, color, cut apart and sign one for each classmate.
- Valentine mailbox: glue a colored page on a paper bag or shoebox with the child's name on it.
- Heart garland: cut out colored hearts and string them across a window or a doorway.
- Lunchbox note: tuck a small colored heart into a lunchbox on the morning of February 14.
- A valentine coloring book: upload photos of the two of you, or of the kids, and Coloriki turns them into a coloring book to color together.
How to print Valentine's Day coloring pages
- Open the page you like and press Print it. A PDF opens, sized for US Letter; the A4 PDF is next to it.
- In the print window choose "Fit to page" or 100% scale, and plain white paper. Thicker paper (100 to 120 gsm) is better for markers and paint.
- Print a few copies: kids like to try different colors on the same picture.
- Prefer screens? Press Color it online and color with a tap on a phone, tablet or computer.