Valentine craft to make!
A home made Valentine craft that is easy to make. The heart shapes become flower petals. You can buy heart shaped paper punchers/cutters which make the preparation of this craft quick and easy. You could buy heart shaped stickers to add to the choice of hearts too.
All you need for this valentine craft
- Card blanks (I often buy card blanks as they usually come with envelopes, but you can fold A4 card in half instead)
- Heart shapes – I’ve used shiny paper in bright colours
- A pot or vase shape cut out of paper
- A green piece of card cut in strips for the flower stem
- Smaller hearts to decorate the pot
- Glue
When you prep all the heart shapes think about the colours you want the children to be able to choose from. My personal preference is for bright colours – not just pinks and reds but some blue and yellow. You might like more pastel shades. I think it’s good to give children a choice of colours. If they choose all pink or all blue then that’s fine but choice is good.
If you are interested in encouraging children to explore colour in their making have a look at this blog post, ‘Making and exploring with colour’.
