Valentines Crafts

Valentines Animals

Check out these fun Valentines to make with guidelines for heart proportions.

Pop-Up Tulip Card

Make this fun pop-up card for mom.

First, choose two colors of paper. Cut at least two pieces of each color into 2″x2″ squares. Fold in half to cut into a tulip shape. Separate all pieces.

Next, keeping the tulip pieces folded in half, glue them together so that different colors touch and it opens up like a fan.

Last, cut a stem and leaves out of green paper and glue into the center. Add a special message on the front and/or inside of the card.

Tissue Flower Craft

Print this page on cardstock and punch holes at the top of the page, about 1.5 inches apart. Draw stems and leaves from the bottom to each hole. Cut tissue paper into 3″x3″ squares and pull through each hole, taping in the back.

Valentine’s Wreaths

Cut several pieces of colored paper into 1.5″ strips, horizontally.

Fold the pieces as seen and staple a half inch in.

Staple hearts together and hole punch two toward the top to run a string through.

Cut out a heart from cardstock and place the outside border onto another piece of cardstock, taping the edges to keep it in place.

OR

Cut a heart outline from contact paper and place onto a canvas.

Squirt different colors of paint along the top of the heart.

Take a piece of cardstock and slowly drag the paint downward.

Let paint completely dry before removing the heart outline.

Heart Bouquet

Cut three pieces of different colored cardstock into 2 1″-thick strips of 4″, 5″, and 6″-lengths.

Staple each set together.

Cut three pieces of different colored cardstock into 2 1″-thick strips of 4″, 5″, and 6″-lengths.

Bend the shortest strip backwards from the staple and pinch the ends to make a heart shape.

Do the same with the medium strip, pinching it over the smaller strip.

After making the same shape with the longest strip, staple them all together over a cardboard skewer or paper straw.

Make as many as you like and place in a cup or mason jar to create a bouquet of hearts.

Heart Wreath

Cut hearts out of pink, red, and purple paper.

Cut out a large heart from cardstock (or use the template below).

Glue the hearts on and add a string to hang it.

Heart Tea Candle Holder

Cut toilet paper rolls at an angle to have a sharp point in back (about 3″ long) and a sharp dip in front (about 2″ long).

Cut hearts out of red tissue paper.

Glue the tissue paper heart on the inside of the toilet paper roll.

Place over a battery-powered tealight candle.

Yarn Hearts

Cut out a heart from cardstock. It can be any size you like, but about the size of your hand is a good idea.

Wrap red, pink, or purple yarn around it.

Glue onto a card or give to your Valentine just the way it is.

3-D Hearts

Print these hearts onto different shades of pink or purple cardstock.

Use a craft knife or open scissors over a corkboard or magazine to cut the hearts out from the inside.

Cut small pieces of cardboard to glue in between each layer to create a 3-D effect.

Accordion Hearts

Place a plate larger than your paper on top if it and trace.

Cut it out. There should be two curved and two flat sides.

Fold it accordion-style, so that the curved side has zig-zags.

Fold it in the middle, so that the curved sides come together.

Staple it closed on the side where two openings come together.

Open it up to make a 3-D heart shape.

Blowing Hearts

Buy a small canvas (flat canvases are also a great option for saving money and space), and have children paint the background as they wish.

Take photos of them blowing kisses, cut them out, and have them glue onto the canvas. Children can either paint on hearts, add heart stickers, or cut out paper hearts to glue on.

Heart Tree

Trace a child’s hand and forearm onto brown paper and cut out.

Glue onto a background of another color.

Cut out small pink and red hearts.

Glue heart “leaves” onto the “branches.”

Print the below template onto different colored paper.

Cut out the shape and cut on the lines.

Weave the two pieces together to make a heart.

Valentine’s Craft Cards

Use this template to find the perfect craft card for your children to make:

Print double-sided onto cardstock, flipping on the short edge.

OR

Print last page and have children practice their ruler skills by tracing lines.

Print double-sided onto cardstock, flipping on the short edge.

Fold 2” square pieces of colored paper and cut hearts.

Glue 3” pieces of green pipe cleaner, criss-crossing between circles.

Poke holes through circles and tie ribbon through.

Print puzzle and card onto cardstock.

Color and cut out pieces.Glue pieces onto heart.

Print double-sided onto cardstock, flipping on the short edge.

Use a cotton swab to paint dots.

Print double-sided onto cardstock, flipping on the short edge.

Have children dip finger in paint to make petals with fingerprints.

Print double-sided onto cardstock, flipping on the short edge.

Print double-sided onto cardstock, flipping on the short edge.

Poke holes through the circles with a sharp pencil or small screwdriver.

Thread string through holes with plastic needles.

Print double-sided onto cardstock, flipping on the short edge.

Poke holes through the circles with a sharp pencil or small screwdriver.

Pull 4” squares of tissue paper through holes.

Add stems with marker or green pipe cleaner.