





Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this creative STEM box-building activity for KS3 and KS4 Art & Design. Students design, construct and decorate their own printable sweet treat boxes before adding personalised kindness cards, developing practical design, measuring, construction and presentation skills through an engaging seasonal project.
This resource includes three printable box templates with matching kindness card designs, allowing students to create thoughtful gifts while applying problem-solving, creativity and precision. Ideal for Art & Design, Design & Technology, tutor time activities, seasonal projects or end-of-term lessons.
What’s Included
Three printable sweet treat box templates with step-by-step construction guides and three coordinating kindness card designs. Students can choose from a mindfulness heart, “Bee My Valentine?” or “I’m Doughnuts for You” theme before colouring, assembling and personalising their finished gift box.
Curriculum Links
Suitable for KS3 and KS4 Art & Design, with links to Design & Technology and STEM learning. Develops problem-solving, measuring, model making, construction techniques, creativity, precision and presentation skills.
Teaching Tip
Print the templates on card or heavyweight paper for the best results. This activity works well as a seasonal design challenge, tutor group project, end-of-term activity or collaborative classroom task.
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Cute Valentine's activity! Young people really enjoyed making their sweet treat box and the step-by-step instructions made it super easy! Fantastic resource, thank you!
Bought this last night and used this with my class today and have to say it was excellent. Resource was very well made and my class absolutely loved putting it together. Happy class = happy teacher.
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