Candles have long been associated with romantic ambience and Valentine’s Day.

Check out the photos or illustrations on each project page to help you decide which of these candle crafts to make first for your special Valentine!

Valentine’s Day Candle Crafts

DLTK’s Pretend Candle
A children’s craft for Valentine’s day - make pretend candles from printable templates and toilet roll tubes.

Candy Candles
Another cute candle pretender made from popular candy rolls and other candies.

Heart Candle Holder
Recycle a pickle jar by painting it with a country speckle design, leaving heart-shaped cut-outs to see the candle inside.

Rhinestone Studded Candle
Pick out heart shapes on a store-bought candle with red rhinestones.

Valentine Candle Poem
Short poem expressing love and how much you care, suitable for giving with a candle.

Ivy Bowl Candles

Candy Heart Candle
Here’s an easy Valentine’s table decoration; fill an ivy bowl with Valentine candies and a votive candle.

Ivy Bowl Candle Lamp
Romantic ivy bowl candle warms the house with the scent of potpourri and the mellow glow of candlelight.

Red Glow Candle
Fill a glass globe or ivy bowl with red glass pebbles and a votive candle.

Faux Oil Lamp Candle
Ivy bowls or glass globe fixtures become the faux base for a romantic oil lamp lookalike. Two main versions are pictured at right - one suitable for a lady, the other destined for a gentleman. Which one will you make?

Ivy Bowl Table Centerpiece
Intended to decorate the bridesmaids table at a wedding, this simple ivy bowl candle craft is surrounded by silk flowers and ideal for any romantic table setting.

Ultra Frost Heart Votives
Use DecoArt glass paint to add a translucent, frosted elegance to glass ivy bowl candle holders. If you apply heart stickers to the glass before painting, them remove them, you create see-through heart shaped windows to catch the candlelight for Valentine’s Day.

Floating Heart Candles

Floating candles make an easy, yet elegant table centerpiece on Valentine’s Day. Buy a few heart-shaped or rose-shaped floating candles and simply float them in a crystal or glass bowl of water. Consider scenting the water with a few drops of floral scented fragrance oil or perfume and floating a few rose petals in the bowl as well.

Candle Crafts at Amazon

Paper hearts and printable valentines for Valentine’s Day, including heart-shaped candy holders, paper heart shaped baskets, heart-shaped Valentines and self-mailing Valentines.

Basic Hearts
How to cut a heart shape or string of hearts from paper.

Homemade Valentine Cards
Four homemade Valentine’s Day cards, each with a heart theme.

Hugs Card
Decorate a card with lots of hearts; spell out HUGS with alphabet stickers.

Mosaic Valentine Heart
Here’s a heart motif craft project that can be as easy or as complex as you want; suitable for all ages.

Paper Mache Hearts
Cover heart-shaped balloons with paper mache to make a unique Valentine for your sweetheart.

Three Heart Card
Michaels offers instructions on how to make a homemade three heart Valentine’s card.

Transparent Heart Shaped Candy Holder
Cut two heart shapes, one from paper, the other from clear acetate, then sew them together with yarn to make this Valentine craft.

Valentine Heart Animals
Cut heart shapes in different colors of construction paper, then glue them together to make paper butterflies, mice, fish, cats or more.

Valentine Heart Crown
Make a special crown for Valentine’s Day from a paper plate and construction paper hearts.

Woven Heart Basket
Traditional woven heart basket to make from paper or felt.

Printable Valentines

Heart Valentines
16 heart valentines printable on one page, plus a mini Valentines activity book, Valentine coupons and bookmarks.

Paper Valentine Dolls
Adorable paper Valentine dolls to cut out and dress up.

Horse Valentines
Nine horse theme Valentines to print on one page for the equine lovers in your life.

Valentines to Color
Two pages of assorted Valentines to print and color then give to your friends.

Self Mailing Valentines
Absolutely adorable collection of self-mailing valentines in a free downloadable PDF file.

Here we have collected free Valentine crafts made from a variety of materials - but all of them use a heart theme or motif - as usual, you’ll be able to see a picture of each project to help in the making of your creation.