These DIY Valentine’s Day juice boxes with free printable will help your kids celebrate this holiday in a fun way. They get to help you transform a basic juice box into a special treat for friends.
Want another fun Valentine’s Day idea for a classroom party? Check out these cute Valentine’s Day card holders for kids.
Valentine’s Day Juice Boxes with Free Printable

Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching.
Valentine’s Day means Valentine’s parties. Valentine’s parties are often filled with candy, desserts, and other delights. Now, anyone who knows me knows I’m not opposed to those things. However, I do like to offer some healthier options. That is why I gave you the idea for the heart pita chips. I also gave you some healthier ideas for my fun with Valentine food day.
This healthier item involves juice boxes. We do need to limit our children’s juice intake because fruit drinks can hide a lot of sugar. I try to buy fruit drinks that say 100% juice and no sugar added. We will be contributing these juice boxes to the class party at school.
Other healthy ideas include pita chips (as mentioned, and you can buy pita free of seed oils at Whole Foods), sandwiches cut into heart shapes, cheese cut into heart shapes, strawberry heart skewers, watermelon cut into heart shapes, etc. I’m sure you can come up with many more ideas.
Again, I am not opposed to cupcakes, cookies, or a bit of candy. However, when every mom in the class is bringing something sweet, it’s nice to have other options.
Materials Needed to Make Valentine’s Day Juice Boxes
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- Juice Boxes
- Free Heart Juice Box Printable <—– Click Here
- Cute Red Paper
- Double Stick Tape
- Heart Straws
- Paper Cutter
How to Make Valentine’s Day Juice Boxes with Free Printable
As always, I encourage you to do this project with your kids. It creates memories, works on fine motor skills, and builds creativity. Gauge what parts kids can help with based on age and ability. It’s OK to push them a bit to learn new skills, but you don’t want it to be so discouraging that they don’t enjoy your time together.
- Print out the hearts in my free printable. The four phrases I used were “You’re Sweet,” “You Pack a Punch” (I used fruit punch juice boxes), “Squeeze Me” and “Love Potion.”
- But out the hearts leaving a slight border around the black lined heart.
- Measure your juice boxes. You will need to know the height and then the total of all four sides combined. Add an extra inch to the length so there is a bit of an overlap.
- Wrap the boxes. Using double side tape, tape one end down midway on the back. Wrap the paper around and adhere to the other side with the double-side tape.
- Add a heart to the center of the front of the box using double-sided tape.
- Finally, tape on the straw to the box.
I love that idea instead of candy. Juice boxes are my favorite so I would have to keep one just for me 🙂 Beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much.
WOW, this is a great idea, where did you get the heart shaped straws? I want to make these with my kids for their class valentines. Thank you so much for the awesome idea.
I bought them in the store at Party City. I just looked online there, and I couldn’t find them. I found a slightly more expensive version there at $0.50 per unit. http://www.partycity.com/product/valentines+krazy+straws.do?sortby=ourPicks&size=all&from=Search&navSet=heart+straws
I also found an idea at Amazon that could be replicated with the straws that come on the juice box.
http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Straws-w-Paper-Insert/dp/B00ARC2U8Q/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1359909750&sr=8-13&keywords=heart+straws
These are cute too. http://www.amazon.com/Century-Novelty-146-2118-Tissue-Straws/dp/B00B7R0G7M/ref=sr_1_25?ie=UTF8&qid=1359909827&sr=8-25&keywords=heart+straws
If you have any problem with the link, you can type in “heart straw” on Amazon to check out some choices.
Thank you Jodi for all the info, I will look into them. I made the Perler Bead bowls with my kids yesterday and they turned out awesome. I will be using the bowls to fill up with candy, wrap them in clear wrapping paper to give to their teachers for valentines day. Such a great idea and so fun & simple to do.
Darling idea — thank you for sharing!
SUch a cute idea… awesome for school lunch! I’d love to have you come and share at Super Saturday Show & Tell today 🙂 xoxo~ Ruthie http://whatscookingwithruthie.com
Thanks so much for the great idea!! I signed up to bring drinks (easy way out)for my daughters class but really wanted to do something special. After a quick search on Pinterest, I found your site! Jackpot! I couldn’t find the cute straws (didn’t think about Party City) but found straws at Hobby Lobby that are like soda shop straws that are still pretty cute. Plus my daughter got to help and when isn’t that a great idea! Thanks again!
Oh yeah! If you take a picture, I’d love to see the results.
Thanks so much for some good healthy party snack ideas, I am the grandmother that goes to the kid’s parties and always am looking for something other than sweets!!! Great ideas!
I’m so glad you found this helpful. You also might like my pita chips: https://meaningfulmama.com/2013/01/homemade-pita-chips-recipe-healthy.html and https://meaningfulmama.com/2014/01/peanut-butter-jelly-valentine-sandwiches.html and https://meaningfulmama.com/2012/02/day-44-fun-with-valentine-food.html. I’m always looking for healthier options also!