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Valentine Mailbags and Mailboxes

By Bren | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Valentines Theme

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There are lots of ways to make mailbags and mailboxes to hold class Valentine cards. Here are some simple and inexpensive ideas for your class to make.

Valentine Mailboxes and Mailbags for Kids to Make

Tissue Box Valentine Mailbox

Valentine mailbox made with glove box or tissue box

What can you use for a Valentine mailbox that is a free recyclable and you can get in abundance (enough for your whole class)? Tissue boxes or latex glove boxes! You can actually use both since they are the same size and shape. I ask parents and friends to help save them. Last year, I had a parent who worked in a hospital and she saved the latex glove boxes for me from non-contaminated areas. She was able to send me two huge bags of them and it was enough for that year and this year, and they worked perfectly!

You can wrap them in red, pink or white bulletin board paper, wrapping paper, butcher paper, or brown shipping paper. Cut out the slot in the top, fold it back, and tape the folded paper to the inside of the box. The boxes already have a slot, so you are only cutting a slot in the paper. Write the children’s names on the top of each box with a bold black marker.

Have the children decorate them with foamier, paper cutouts, heart doilies, stickers, sequins, markers, and crayons.

Valentine mailbox made with glove box or tissue box

Valentine Mailbags

Mailbags are the simplest Valentine mail holder. Just get some paper bags and let children decorate however they wish with a variety of Valentine collage materials. Use heart doilies, stickers, stamps, markers to decorate the bags. You can buy paper lunch bags in the usual brown paper sack color, or white, red, or pink. You can also buy packs of these paper gift bags with handles in a variety of colors.

Valentine Mail Bags

File Folder Valentine Mailbags

These mailbags are made with a file folder. You can use a manila folder or get the colored ones in red. Using the hole punch, make holes across the bottom and along both sides of the file folder (using a 3 hole-punch is easier and faster).

lace the sides with yarn

Have the children lace up the 3 sides. You will need yarn of about 2 ½  ft per child. It is helpful if you wrap the end of the yarn with masking tape or use a plastic needle.  Use a piece of yarn to make a handle.

Let the children decorate their mailbag with markers, dot paint, construction paper hearts, stickers, etc. Very simple and inexpensive!

decorate the mailbag with paper hearts
completed valentine mailbag
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Bren is a contributing writer for PreKinders.com. She is a Pre-K teacher in Illinois.

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  1. Pamela says

    February 10, 2014 at 9:12 pm

    How cute! Thank you for the great idea.

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    • Fatiha says

      February 11, 2014 at 4:32 pm

      Thank you so much your ideas are super .Happy Valentine’s Day to you and all your family.

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  2. veronica says

    February 11, 2014 at 6:13 am

    So easy for me. I give The Lord all the glory for you and Karen.Your ideas are a great help to someone who is not creative.Thank you

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  3. dorothye says

    February 11, 2014 at 6:16 am

    Wonderful idea, Just love it!

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  4. Melissa says

    February 11, 2014 at 7:53 am

    Great idea Karen, thanks for the inspiration! Happy Valentine’s Day to you šŸ™‚

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  5. Wilma Bishop says

    February 11, 2014 at 11:18 am

    Wonderful idea I am a home visitor for Save the Children and I will use this activity.

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  6. Tricia says

    February 11, 2014 at 11:20 am

    You are so creative!! I love this idea. Thanks

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  7. Maria says

    February 11, 2014 at 1:23 pm

    they look nice and easy to make. I use empty cereal boxes that we wrap in paper and then we give the children cut out hearts in many colors, a piece of yarn for the handle.
    Happy St. Valentine’s Day

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  8. Chloe says

    February 11, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    Thanks for this post. I really some more ideas for valentine day. Great.

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  9. Beth McCallister says

    February 12, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    Thanks for letting us know what you have at TPT. It’s good to know what is available that is high quality. Since I have seen such great quality stuff on your Pre-K site I know your TPT stuff must be great! Thanks!

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  10. Kelly says

    February 12, 2014 at 6:04 pm

    Love this idea! Will file it for next year :). Our kids brought in shoe boxes and we wrapped them in bulletin paper and the kids will decorate them!

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  11. Stephanie Schuler says

    February 13, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    These are a little more involved than the brown lunch bags I had growing up in grade school! Very creative though!

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  12. Emma says

    February 18, 2014 at 8:20 pm

    Hi Karen, love the valentines ideas the kids loved the little mailboxes they were great. I was also wondering if you had any ideas for Dr. Seuss it is coming up? Could you possibly make a roll and cover game or even a grid game. I was also looking for another play dough mat for March. Thank you !! Emma

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    • Karen Cox says

      February 18, 2014 at 9:00 pm

      The play dough mat for March sounds like a great idea! I’ll see what I come up with. Unfortunately, I can’t make a roll and write game or other materials for Dr. Seuss because it is trademarked.

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      • sajlaa says

        February 19, 2014 at 1:45 am

        thanks Karen they were great idea Happy Valentine’s Day to you

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  13. Lolly says

    February 19, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    My kids had a great time with this. The girls called them purses. Thank you.

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  14. Jessie says

    January 27, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    Love it, thanks for sharing

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