The Best Valentines Day Gift Ideas for Babies and Toddlers
Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate love, and what could be more precious than the love you share with your little ones? While you might be dreaming of romantic dinners and cozy evenings, don’t forget the joy of showering your babies and toddlers with affection on this special day. This guide is filled with creative and budget-friendly Valentine’s Day gift ideas for babies and toddlers that will melt their hearts and create lasting memories. From adorable clothes to fun toys to creative supplies and love-filled books, we’ve got you covered!
Valentine’s Day is a great chance to add some excitement and fun to the middle of a bleak winter. I used to not be a fan of the holiday, but now I’m all about anything that makes the long winter, spent mostly inside with a baby or toddler more bearable! So I’m a Valentine’s convert. I’m cutting out paper hearts and sugar cookies with the best of them. After all, LOVE is an amazing thing to celebrate!
Last year I was kind of stumped on what to get my little daughter for Valentine’s Day. It’s close to her birthday and Christmas is pretty recent, but I still wanted to do a little something to celebrate with her! I ended up buying her new hairbows, socks, and a coloring book. It wasn’t much, less than $10 total, but it was cheerful and FUN and made an ordinary day in February a bit more special.
This year I’ve compiled a quick list of some of my favorite options for Baby and Toddler Valentine’s Gifts. Most of these gifts come in around the $10-$15 price point and many are purposefully NOT Valentine’s branded so you can get more play out of them!
Valentine’s Day Toy Gift Ideas for Little Ones
This Valentine’s Day Sensory Toy — This is so perfectly adorable! Each piece sqeaks, jingles, or crinkles for extra sensory and tactile development!
I Love You Teether — This ASL I Love You teether is so cute and the perfect little Valentine’s gift for your baby.
Sensory Book — This soft and colorful book is beloved by our little one. She loves to crinkle it and chew on it (and read it too!).
Melissa and Doug Puzzles — We love Layla’s Melissa and Doug puzzles and they have stood up well to wear and tear in our house. I’m quite partial to this little fishbowl (perfect for little hands) and this chunky safari puzzle.
Sports Car — Layla got one for Christmas in her stocking and loves “zooming” it around the house. This has held up so well to lots of love (aka rough play) by all our kiddos.
Mini Penguin Plush — Cute and cuddly stuffed animals like this adorable penguin make a great Valentine’s Day gift for toddlers or babies.
Valentine’s Day Outfits for Babies and Toddlers
Boy Valentine’s Day Clothes
Mister Irresistible — It’s hard to find cute Valentine’s Day outfits for baby boys, but this one is darling!
Baby Bow Ties — Valentine’s Day is a fun excuse to get some extra cute baby items! These highly rated bow ties are perfect for boys, toddlers, and babies.
Toddler Valentine’s Day shirts — Love this pair of shirts perfect for your dino-loving boy (or girl!)
Cutesie socks — Love a theme that extends beyond the holiday and you ALWAYS need more socks!
Girl Valentine’s Day Clothes
Baby Girl Bow Headband — I love this collection of headbands. We started our daughter in these around 6 months and they fit perfectly with great room to stretch and grow.
Baby girl smaller bows — The variety of this pack is awesome and they are so stretchy they fit a newborn through first year without leaving marks.
Baby girl outfit — Perfectly sweet for Valentine’s day but also won’t look out of place the rest of winter and spring!
Toddler Girl Valentine’s Shirts — These tops are perfectly Valentine’s themed, but will also be wearable long after!
Sweet beanie — A hat is a great winter staple. Pair with some gloves too! (I hope I’m not the only one midwinter wondering where ALL THE GLOVES have gone!).
Consider anything you need that could also be included as a gift like dress shoes or boots or a size up in a coat or bunting.
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Valentine’s Day Books for Babies and Toddlers
Where is Baby’s Valentine? — Love this from the author of another one of our favorites, Where is Baby’s Belly Button!
Jesus Calling for Little Ones — Share the love of Jesus with this sweet book.
Huggy Kissy — This author cracks me up and Layla loves to quote her books!
How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You? — Perfect for your toddlers working on kindness and being loving. *cough*mykid*cough* The illustrations in the series are very entertaining!
Tiny T-Rex and the Impossible Hug— This is the sweetest book about the perseverance of love and friendship! You can also get a Tiny T. Rex plush (which we have and it’s adorable!)
Mama, Do You Love Me — I adore this board book and it’s testament to the unstopping love of a mama.
There’s never a bad time to give a book!
Creative Gift Ideas for Little Kids on Valentine’s Day
First Painting Magic Love + Hugs — If you want a mess free painting activity this book is perfect for little ones!
Foam Hearts – Tots of all sizes will enjoy picking out hearts and doilies to create sweet Valentines! We know you might be doing all the work mama, but aunts, uncles, grandparents, parents will ALL love their own special creation!
Bathtime Markers – These make bath time so much fun and kids love permission to scribble on the tub walls! While they do wash off, I will say our tub has never looked so clean thanks to the extra cleaning post tub time (it’s not much, but it’s more than I, ashamedly, normally scrub my tub).
Large Lacing Beads – Although this product is recommended for over age three, the “beads” are really large spheres so they don’t pose a choking hazard. Little ones will enjoy their bright colors and exploring them with their hands/mouths, older toddlers can sort them into shapes and colors, and of course string them together!
Valentine’s Day Coloring Book — I have the regular version of this coloring book and the thick lines make it amazing for little ones learning to color and create! We’ve JUST now filled up ours and I think we’ll add this to our stack of coloring books!
Crafting together and being creative is a great way to celebrate Valentine’s Day! Check out my Valentine’s Pinterest Board for more fun ideas!
Bottom line: You don’t have to spend a lot of time or money to create fun Valentine’s memories! Select a few Valentine’s gift ideas from these and create a sweet Valentine’s Day celebration for your little. They may not remember it, but you will! I love blessing the little people I love with adorable, fun, and hands-on gifts!!
How do you celebrate Valentines Day with your littles?s
I really want to get the boys some bathtub markers or crayons but I’m terrified they’d color on something else in the bathroom and it not come off. My 5 year old has been know to color all over the school bus window and seat with a crayon and also colored in his glasses with a Sharpie. The 3 year old is simply a copy cat. Boys!
Haha! Layla is in a huge coloring obsession we’ve lost a few books and she’s colored a little on our bookcases (which are cheap, old and it didn’t really bother me, except for the fact she did it.) She’s good about only coloring in the tub with the markers, but she only gets like two a tub time. I’m sure a 5 year old could be much sneakier with them though! 😉