Easy Valentine’s Crafts for Kids

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Valentine’s is a day for exhibiting others how a lot we love them, and that always includes Valentine’s Day playing cards and crafts. This is a superb time to tug out the crafts station for artwork initiatives and let the youngsters have enjoyable. Here are some concepts for Valentine’s Day crafts on your little ones to make and provides! 

Valentine’s Crafts for Kids

Most of us can bear in mind the dialog coronary heart candies and little paper Valentine’s Day playing cards that we exchanged as youngsters. Our household limits processed sugar, although, and papercrafts can actually begin to pile up round the home. We all the time have pipe cleaners, pom-poms, and stickers readily available for artwork initiatives, however these youngsters’ crafts go somewhat past that. 

I wished to do some initiatives with the youngsters that may be enjoyable for them and in addition create a helpful reward for family and friends. Your little ones may additionally trade these items in school or make some for siblings. Some of those initiatives would require somewhat extra assist from an grownup, however they’re straightforward sufficient for youths of all ages (even preschoolers) to do.

Wildflower Seed Heart Valentines 

This Valentine’s craft for youths kills two birds with one stone. We’re upcycling paper and serving to to save the bees and different pollinators. They look somewhat like sweet hearts, however with out the processed sugar and meals coloring. I used scrap white paper and threw in some crimson development paper to make a pink coloration. 

You gained’t need to plant these in February, however spring (and flower planting season) is true across the nook. Include planting directions if these coronary heart crafts are a present, and make sure you use flowers native to your space. Here are a number of locations to get non-GMO seeds:

Wildflower Seed Heart Materials Needed

Instructions

1. Tear up the scrap items of paper and put them within the blender. If you need pink hearts, you need to use crimson and white, or you might simply do white paper. If you’ve gotten a whole lot of paper in a sure coloration (like yellow), then you might make a number of batches. Experiment and see what you want.
2. Put sufficient water within the blender to submerge the paper, and let it soak for Quarter-hour or so. Blend till it’s a thick pulp. Add extra water as wanted if the paper begins to jam up.
3. Pour the paper water slurry onto a display and generously sprinkle in your wildflower seeds. You need to clean out the slurry some on the display so it’s not too thick.
4. Once the paper has fully dried (a number of hours), fastidiously peel it off of the display.
5. Lay a heart-shaped cookie cutter on the paper and hint round it with the pen or marker. Cut out the center shapes.
6. Make a card with planting directions to offer with the center if it’s a present.

 DIY Valentine Handprint Heart Tree

This challenge is nice for the youngest ones within the household and makes an incredible reward for grandparents. Tracing their hand and reducing out the hearts helps youngsters observe their tremendous motor expertise and teaches symmetry. As a homeschool household, these are simply a number of the expertise we cowl in a day! Here’s the straightforward tutorial for this cute Valentine memento. 

Handprint Heart Tree Materials

• Red, white, pink, and brown development paper
• Cardstock
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Glue or glue stick

Instructions

1. Have your infant hint their hand and down their arm on the brown piece of paper, serving to them if wanted. Their fingers are the tree branches and their arm is the trunk. 
2. Cut out the handprint tree and glue it to a different sheet of paper, ideally cardstock. 
3. Fold the coloured development paper in half and hint out half a coronary heart. You’ll need it to make a full coronary heart as soon as it’s minimize and the paper is opened. Do this a number of instances, making hearts of various sizes and colours. This is an effective time to make use of up these little coloured paper scraps.
4. Have your little ones minimize the define of the hearts.
5. Glue the hearts onto the “tree branches” to make coronary heart foliage on the tree. You can even use a coronary heart stamp so as to add some extra visible distinction to the tree. 
6. Don’t overlook to have your kiddos signal their masterpiece earlier than gifting it!

DIY Heart-Shaped Crayons

Valentine’s crafts for youths that expend scrap gadgets in the home are all the time a plus in my e-book. DIY crayons may look subtle, however they’re straightforward peasy to make. You don’t even want any craft provides for this one. 

I’ve silicone molds that I particularly use for issues like lotion bars and sugar scrub cubes. If you propose on utilizing a mould for meals, like vitamin C gummies, then preserve it separate out of your crafting molds. 

DIY Crayons Materials

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 275 levels.
2. Help your baby take the paper off the crayons and snap or minimize them into smaller items in the event that they’re on the big facet. 
3. Place the crayon items into the silicone molds. They can use one coloration for every mould or combine and match for a multicolored crayon. 
4. Put the silicone mould onto a baking sheet for extra stability, and bake the crayons within the oven for about 10-Quarter-hour or till melted. 
5. Allow the crayons to chill fully earlier than eradicating them from the mould. 
6. You may give these individually or connect them to a chunk of cardstock with a Valentine’s message.

Fingerprint Heart Valentine’s Day Card

This one might not be one thing to make use of like the opposite craft concepts, however it’s a pleasant contact to offer a do-it-yourself reward with a do-it-yourself Valentine card. Thank you playing cards are additionally huge in our home. Older youngsters may make a coronary heart collage with tissue paper, beautify it with stamps, and get artistic.

Heart Card Materials

• Paint (crimson, white, or pink)
• Cardstock
• Construction paper (white, crimson, or pink)
• Markers

Instructions

1. Put a layer of paint in your baby’s palms. Have them maintain their palms in a V form with their fingertips touching. Choose a contrasting paint and paper coloration so the colours don’t simply mix collectively. You may do crimson paint on pink paper, white paint on crimson paper, and so forth.
2. Press the paint-covered palms onto a coloured piece of development paper. Let the paint dry.
3. Once it’s dried, hint a coronary heart form across the handprints and minimize it out. 
4. Glue the center cutout onto some cardstock and write a customized message. 

More Easy Valentine’s Day Crafts 

There are a whole lot of enjoyable Valentine’s Day crafts for youths on the market, so listed below are a number of extra concepts.

What actions do your youngsters do on Valentine’s Day? Any particular traditions? Let us know within the feedback!