A Valentine snack board (aka: Valentine’s Day charcuterie board) is the ultimate Valentine’s Day school snack ideas, VDay party treats for kids or fun for holiday movie night! You can make it healthy kids Valentine snacks / healthy after school snacks or surprise sweet treats! Perfect for Valentines Day treats DIY gift ideas for teachers, friends, and family members, too!
DIY VALENTINE SNACK BOARD
A Valentine snack charcuterie is fun because you can play around with a lot of different kid-friendly treats for a Valentine’s Day theme party, snack, or lunch!
Valentine Charcuterie Board Ideas
Items for a Valentine Snack Board for Kids:
- Valentine heart cookies
- Chocolate dipped strawberries with Valentine sprinkles
- Conversation Hearts candies
- Raspberries
- Edible red rose petals (for real!)
- Heart candies and suckers
- Rice crackers
- Cheese cut in hearts
- Meats cut in heart shapes (salami works really well)
- Heart shaped Cheerios (limited throughout the year)
- Pomegranate arils (seeds)
- Red, white and pink gummies
- Chocolate dipped pretzels in pink and red
- Heart shape snack cakes
- Festive holiday doughnuts
- Apple slices cut into heart shapes
- Heart bread (cut out with a heart cookie cutter)
- LOVE cookies
- Red licorice
- Pretzels
- Red dipping sauces in heart shaped dip dishes
- Cut out heart vegetables (like cucumbers, red peppers, etc.)
- Valentine Hershey kisses (pink and red)
- Peppermint bark with heart shaped sprinkles
- Heart shaped marshmallows
- Red sugared cranberries
See directions on how to make a dessert Valentine snack board below!
What is a Valentine’s Day snack board?
A Valentine snack board can be a:
- Savory charcuterie board (with meats and cheeses)
- Sweet Valentine’s Day dessert board (dessert charcuterie board) with heart-shaped chocolates and desserts
- Valentine fruit board with cutout heart fruits and dips
- Vegetable snack board with heart shaped veggies
- Valentine hot chocolate board with Valentine candies, pink red and white sprinkles, and heart marshmallows as toppings
- A mixed snack board of all of the above!
For your charcuterie for Valentines Day, use a heart plate or a colorful serving tray like this and some mini heart serving bowls to hold dips and candy to create a festive Valentine party mood!
What day is Valentines Day?
The Valentine’s Day date is always February 14th each year, annually. The holiday is also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine.
MORE VALENTINE’S DAY RECIPES:
Heart Brownies with Marshmallows
Marshmallow Pops Dipped In Chocolate
DIY Valentines Cards Crafts For Preschool
Valentine’s Day Charcuterie Board (Valentine Sandwich Board)
If you want to make a savory Valentines Day snack board for kids, use a small heart cookie cutter to cut out the meats, cheeses, breads, cucumbers, etc. so for a DIY holiday sandwich board for kids.
This is a great option if you want a Valentine board of snacks that’s not full of sugar!
You can still create a healthy Valentine theme by adding red, pink, and white treats like:
- White bread
- White cheese
- Red bell peppers
- Pink meats
- Red jelly and peanut butter
- Red Babybel
- Red leaf lettuce
- Red pomegranate seeds
- Dragonfruit
- Tomatoes
- Strawberries
- Cherries
- Red apple pieces
- Radishes
Perfect for a Valentine’s Day lunch idea!
We use the cookie cutters like this because they cut through thicker items better!
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How To Make a Valentine Snack Board
This is a fun Valentine’s Day snack to make with the kids at home, but it also makes beautiful Valentine Day treats gifts! If you’re making it as a Valentine charcuterie box for holiday presents, use cute Valentine boxes like these for kids to give out to their Valentine friends (or these if you need larger boxes for teachers, etc.) to deliver your gifts!
We made our Valentine’s day food board as a dessert board, but you can make it with anything that you want, like meats and cheeses cutout in the form of hearts!
TIP: You can easily make chocolate dipped pretzels pink and red colors by using these colored melts.
How To Make a Valentine's Day Candy Charcuterie Board
Equipment
- Serving tray of choice
- Heart shaped dish (optional)
Ingredients
- SUGGESTIONS:
- Valentine cookies variety of choice
- Valentine Conversation Heart candies
- Valentine candies variety of choice
- Pretzels regular and chocolate dipped
- Red gummies
- Strawberries or cherries or raspberries or a mix
- Chocolate dipped strawberries with Valentine sprinkles
Instructions
- When building a snack tray or charcuterie board, ALWAYS START IN THE MIDDLE AND WORK OUT. (Doesn't matter how big or small your charcuterie board / table is.) The building blocks in the middle are the "stars" of your board. In our case, we placed a small heart bowl filled with conversation Valentine hearts.
- Continue working outward, adding a large item (like cookies) to one side and then diagonally add the same size item on the other side.
- Once you do something to one side of the board, stop and do something on the opposite side of the board in the same color and/or bulk/size. This will help you keep the board feeling balanced and will help to avoid putting a bunch of the same colors together.
- Continue adding items to each side until you are finished. Stand back and assess your snack board. Are there too many of one color together? Does one side of the board look "heavier" than the other? DON'T STRESS TOO MUCH. It's easy to fill in your board with small candy hearts and pretzels to make it feel complete.
- SERVE AND ENJOY!
Notes
Let us know what you put on your Valentine snack board!
