Valentine’s Day is a day when you show others how much we love them, and this often includes Valentine’s Day maps and craft. This is a great time to get the craft station for art projects out and enjoy the children. Here are some ideas for Valentine’s Day for your little ones who can make and give!
Valentine’s Day for children
Most of us can remember the conversation control and the small paper Valentine’s Day tickets that we have exchanged as children. However, our family border limit processed sugar, and papercrafts can really stack around the house. We always have pipe cleaners, pom poms and stickers for art projects on hand, but the handicrafts of these children go a little more.
I wanted to do some projects with the children who enjoy them and create a useful gift for friends and family. Your little ones could also exchange these gifts at school or make some for siblings. Some of these projects require a little more help from an adult, but for children of all ages (even preschool children) are light enough.
Valentines’s wildflower seed heart
The craft of this Valentine’s Day for children kills two birds with a stone. We are upcycling paper and help with it Save the bees and other pollinators. They look a little like candy hearts, but without the processed sugar and food coloring. I used scrap paper and thrown in a red construction paper to make a pink color.
You won’t plant them in February, but the spring time (and the flower plant time) are just around the corner. Enter instructions when these heart crafts are a gift and use flowers that are native to your region. Here are some places to get non-genetic engineering seeds:
Wildlower -seed -heart materials required
Instructions
- Tear the scrap pieces and put them in the blender. If you want pink hearts, you can use red and white or just make white paper. If you have a lot of paper in a certain color (such as yellow), you can make several batches. Experiment and see what you like.
- Place enough water in the mixer to dip the paper and let it soak for about 15 minutes. Mix until it is a thick pulp. If necessary, add more water if the paper begins to mix.
- Pour the paper water sludge onto a screen and spread it generously into your wildflower seeds. You want to smooth the fumbling on the screen so that it is not too thick.
- As soon as the paper is completely dry (a few hours), carefully pull it off the screen.
- Place a heart -shaped biscuit cutter on the paper and follow it with the pen or marker. Cut out the forms of heart.
- Make a card with instructions that you can give with your heart when it comes to a gift.
DIY Valentine Handprint Henzbaum
This project is great for the youngest in the family and makes a great gift for grandparents. If you follow your hand and cut out your hearts, children can practice their fine motor skills and teach symmetry. As a homeschool family, these are just a few of the skills that we cover in one day! Here is the simple tutorial for this sweet Valentine’s Day.
Handprint cardiac construction materials
- Red, white, pink and brown construction paper
- Cardboard
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Glue or adhesive stick
Instructions
- Let your little one watch your hand on the brown piece of paper and help you if necessary. Your fingers are the branches of the trees and your arm is the trunk.
- Cut out the handprint tree and glue it to another sheet of paper, preferably cardboard.
- Fold the colored design paper in half and follow half a heart. You want to make a full heart as soon as it is cut and the paper is open. Do this several times and make hearts of different sizes and colors. This is a good time to consume these small colored paper waste.
- Let your little ones cut the outline of the hearts.
- Glue your hearts to the “tree branches” to make the heart’s blade in the tree. You can also use a heart stamp to add another visual contrast to the tree.
- Don’t forget that your children sign your masterpiece before you give it!
DIY heart -shaped colored pencils
Valentine’s Day for children who consume scrap pieces in the house are always a plus in my book. DIY colored pencils may look demanding, but it’s easy to make peasy. You don’t even need craft supplies for this.
I have silicone forms that I use especially for things such as lotion bars and sugar peel cubes. If you plan to use a shape for food such as vitamin -C rubbers, keep them separated from your shape of your craft.
DIY colored pencils materials
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 275 degrees.
- Help your child to take the paper off the colored pencils and snap or cut into smaller pieces when it is on the large side.
- Place the colored pencils in the silicone molds. You can use or mix a color for any shape and adapt a multi -colored colored pencil.
- Place the silicone shape on a baking sheet for more stability and bake the colored pencils in the oven for about 10-15 minutes or until they have melted.
- Let the colored pencils cool completely before removing them from the mold.
- You can give them separately or attach them to a piece of cardboard with the message of a Valentine’s Day.
Fingerprint Heart Valentine’s Day card
This may not be like the other craft ideas, but it is a nice gesture to give a homemade gift with a homemade ValentineStag card. Thank you very much, cards are also big in our house. Older children could make a heart collage with handkerchief paper, decorate it with stamps and become creative.
Heart card materials
- Color (red, white or pink)
- Cardboard
- Construction paper (white, red or pink)
- Markings
Instructions
- Place a layer of color on your child’s hands. Let them hold their hands in a V -shape, with their fingertips touch. Choose a contrasting color and paper color so that the colors not only put together. You can make red color on pink paper, white color on red paper, etc.
- Press the painted hands on a colored piece of construction paper. Let the color dry.
- As soon as it has dried, follow a heart shape around the handprints and cut it out.
- Glue the heart section on a box and write a custom message.
Easier Valentine’s Day trade
There are many funny crafts on Valentine’s Day for children out there. So there are still a few ideas.
What activities do your children do on Valentine’s Day? Any special traditions? Let us know in the comments!