Fun Valentine's Day Projects for Kids

by Michele Cheplic | More from this Blogger

10 Feb 2009 08:02 PM

If you are looking for an affordable gift to give grandma and grandpa this Valentine's Day, these kid-friendly crafts are right on target. Gather your children around the table and have them make these homemade hearts out of everyday items. Kids ages 6 and up can craft these hearts with little adult supervision. With preschoolers you may want to help with the cutting and gluing, and with toddlers, consider doing the cutting yourself and let them have fun with the pasting.

PAPER MOSIAC HEARTS

Materials:

Poster board or card stock

Construction paper

Old magazines or catalogs

Scissors

Glue stick

Directions:

Trace a large heart (approximately 10- to 12-inches) on a piece of card stock or poster board. Cut out the heart.

Use a pencil to draw lines and divide the heart into four equal sections.

Find pictures (words don't work as well) in the magazines and cut them into small squares.

Divide the squares into five piles according to the dominant color, with at least one pile of red. Set the red squares aside.

Using the glue stick, paste the squares in a tile mosaic pattern (one right next to the other) in each of the quartered sections. Use a different dominant color for each section.

Complete all four sections, then glue the heart onto a piece of poster board.

TISSUE PAPER HEART

Materials:

Pink and white tissue paper (10 sheets of each color)

White craft glue

Scissors

Poster board or card stock

Pencil

Directions:

Stack the tissue paper and cut into 1-inch strips. Then, cut each strip into 1-inch squares.

Trace a large heart shape onto the poster board. Cut out the heart shape.

Draw a smaller heart shape with a pencil in the middle of the larger heart.

Fill the smaller heart with white craft glue.

Place a square of white tissue paper around the end of a pencil eraser. Twist the square around the eraser and dot it onto the glue. Continue until the entire middle is filled with white tissue paper "flowers." Repeat this process with the pink paper for the outside heart until paper is completely filled.

Note: Younger children who are not able to twist the paper around the eraser can simply wad the tissue with their fingers and glue it in place.

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Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism.

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