How to: Healthy Valentine Treats to Give Away

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.

An orange with a heart-shaped green leaf that says, Orange you glad it's Valentine's Day.

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 asimple felt heart garlandthat you can hang up for years to come. And then make aValentine’s Chocolate and Cheese Boardand give each kid a bag ofPink Valentine’s Popcorn.

Why You’ll Love These Projects

These are soeasy 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 tofind something for any special diet(dairy-free, gluten-free, egg-free, vegan, etc).
They are healthy-ish (and better than giving candy).

Fruit strips with cute sayings and foam heart stickers.

Expert Tips

Check your local dollar storefor some of the supplies like little zip-close baggies and foam stickers.
Consider how much you want to spendand then decide onthe right treat.
Be sure touse pre-packaged snacksif 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).

A small clear plastic bag filled with animal crackers and a piece of paper stapled to the top that says I'm WILD about you Valentine.

Knock, Knock

Who’s There?
Orange!
Orange Who?
Orange you glad it’s Valentine’s Day?

Treat: Fresh orange

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).

An orange with a heart-shaped green leaf that says, Knock Knock Who's there Orange Orange who.

Fruity Valentine

Treat:Stretch Island Fruit Co. all-natural fruit strips (from Costco)

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!

Cheese sticks with a note that says Let's stick together Valentine.

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!

A package of Nature Valley granola things attached to a piece of paper that says You are a natural happy valentines day.

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.

A small clear plastic bag of twist pretzels with a heart-shaped piece of paper that says Our class would KNOT be the same without you and a small clear plastic bag of chocolate-covered pretzels with a note that says It's Valentine's Day what's KNOT to love.

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.