Valentine Poems for Children

Kids absolutely love to be involved in the holidays, so consider finding some Valentine poems for children amidst all your gushing about love to your significant other.

You will find a plethora of poems from all different sources that are appropriate for children. Furthermore, as the child gets older, you might even be able to introduce him or her to some more grown up poems, since they might have a better grasp of the language used and the subject matter.

Examples of Valentine's Day Poems for Kids

• Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's Day/All in the morning be time/And I a maid at your window/To be your Valentine.-William Shakespeare in Hamlet
• Special people are very few;/Who is special? That would be you./My Valentine's Day would be so fine,/If you would be my Valentine.-Joanna Fuchs
• Out of a snow cloud, cold and gray/Something dropped on Saint Valentine's Day/Whirling and twirling and soft and light/Like wee little letters all dainty and white/And I guess the sky children were sending down/This Valentine straight to the children in town.-Bethany Roberts
• Valentine, O Valentine/I'll be your love and you'll be mine./We'll care for each other, rain or fine,/And in 90 years we'll be 99.-Ian Serraillier
• Again today/We draw a heart around/your name. Our red crayons/bright with love--/the paper white as drifts/outside the door/Snowfall on your birthday!/Each/tumbling flake snipped/into lace by the scissoring wind/Valentines! Valentines!/Valentines!-Barbara Juster Esbensen
• Valentine treasures are people who/have often crossed your mind,/family, friends, and others too,/who in your life have shined/the warmth of love or a spark of light/that makes you remember them;/no matter how long since you've actually met/each one is a luminous gem,/who gleams and glows in your memory/bringing special pleasures/and that's why this Valentine comes to you:/You're one of those sparkling treasures!-Joanna Fuchs

Poem Writing by Children

You might also be searching for some resources that will help your child to write his or her own Valentine's Day poem. Perhaps you are hosting a party for your son or daughter and all of your child's friends and want a craft to do, or maybe you are a teaching looking for a way to incorporate this holiday into your classroom agenda.

At least some of how you approach this task will depend upon the age of the child(ren); however, here are some basic tips:

• Provide models for the children to read before they begin their own work. They might not understand what any poem - let alone a Valentine's Day poem - is supposed to look like.
• Encourage them to choose a specific person in their family for whom they can write the Valentine's day poem. Doing so will help them customize the poem to a specific person.

When you are reading poems to your children - or presenting them for the child to read by him or herself, remind the child that the poems can be about all different types of love and love for different people in their lives.

Show them how the poem can express love for a mother, father, grandparent, and so forth. Doing so will help a little one to really be engaged and feel involved in the content of the poem.