How to Make Valentine's Day Recipes for Kids

Have fun in the kitchen with your child making these delicious Valentine's Day treats.

Step 1: Make heart-shaped pancakes Make heart-shaped pancakes for the whole family. Prepare the pancake batter according to package directions and add a few drops red food coloring.
Step 2: Make the pancakes Cook the pancakes on a skillet and use a heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut out hearts. These will win the heart of everyone.
Step 3: Make heart shape in oatmeal Put on a smile on your child's face by drizzling a heart shape with honey onto their bowl of oatmeal.
Step 4: Enjoy a love potion Enjoy a lemon love potion with your child. Combine the raspberry sherbet with the lemonade. Then add the lemon soda, stir, and enjoy.
Step 5: Paint a Valentine cookie Paint your own Valentine sugar cookie using edible paint. Mix the egg yolk and water in a small bowl and then add a few drops of red food coloring.
TIP: Add enough food coloring to get your desired shade of red.
Step 6: Paint cookie Paint a Valentine design on your unbaked sugar cookies. Then bake them according to package directions. Have fun baking together, and happy Valentine's Day!
FACT: The first commercial Valentine's Day greeting cards produced in the U.S. were created in the 1840s by Esther A. Howland.