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Valentine Collage

Valentine collage to make using coloured tissue paper.

Tissue paper is a wonderful paper that can be torn, layered, crumpled and glued. It comes in a whole variety of colours and is relatively inexpensive. I use it a lot in crafts with children.

This Valentine themed tissue paper collage is very simple to prepare and make. The added hearts are a nice touch but if you don’t have a paper punch to make heart shapes stickers would be great.

All you need to make the valentine collage

A4 or A3 sugar paper
Glue sticks
Hearts cut from paper (and/or heart stickers)
Tissue paper torn into shapes – I used pink, red and yellow in large squares and some green in smaller shapes

Young children can be given the torn tissue paper shapes. Older children could select the colours they wish to use and tear the paper themselves. Tissue paper tears easily but usually there is a direction in the paper that tears in a straightish line – so experiment and see how the older children get on. If they are having trouble tearing the paper easily suggest that they turn the paper 90 degrees and try again.

Some other ideas for Valentines Day

Card to make

Valentine heart wreath to make

Valentine’s Day Bible verse craft

Valentine’s Day Bible verse craft that is lovely to make and easy to prepare ahead. To make this you need a few bought items and some card. Psalm 136:26 reminds us that God’s love never ends.

Hearts for Valentine's Day craft made with heart stickers

Valentines heart craft with a Bible verse

everything you need to make Valentine’s Day Bible verse craft

Heart shape printed out onto card. Older children can cut it out. You’ll need to cut the shape out for young children (toddler group age)
Heart stickers (if bought on a roll you can cut them into small strips)
Crayons/pencils

Valentine Craft Download

to make

Print heart onto card (paper would be ok if you don’t have card)
Cut out
Colour (I used crayons – pinks, yellows, reds)
Add heart stickers to the border

to use

You could add a ribbon so this craft becomes a wall hanging! Either use a hole punch to make a hole at the top centre and thread a thin ribbon through (Yarn would work too) or tape a loop of ribbon to the back of the heart. If you want to make wall hangings I would suggest you print the heart shape on card so it holds it’s shape. You could laminate it too.

If making in your church group see if older children can find the verse in the Bible and have a go at learning it.

Here’s a link to some other Valentine’s Day crafts

Valentine Craft

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’.

Valentine craft

Next Thursday we’ll be making Valentine cards at toddler group. I buy blank cards with envelopes from Amazon, Hobbycraft or Poundland. The hearts are cut from coloured paper with paper punchers. I like to use pinks, purples and yellows to make the hearts. You could use any colours that you fancy. It’s entirely up to the children how many hearts to use!

hearts for valentines day

This year we will actually have our Thursday toddler group on February 14th. Valentines Day is often in half term but not this year! So a special ‘keepsake craft’ is in order. Something special for parents and toddlers to make together, write the date on the back and keep.

Baker Ross sell card hearts that are perfect for making a heart wreath. The heart shapes are cut using paper punches – two different sizes. There will be wool and sequins too. The cut out hearts will be colour coordinated – lots of pinks, some green, patterns and bright yellow. The yellow brings the whole thing to life.

Kandinsky inspired Valentine craft

I love this painting by Wassily Kandinsky. Lovely colours. the idea of using a painting as the inspiration for a craft really appeals to me – it’s a great way of introducing children to art. So for Valentines Day we will be doing our own version – not quite so colourful and of couse no circles – just hearts.

I will be giving each child an A4 page with hearts already printed on – just as a guide. There will be lots of different coloured hearts all various shapes. I use construction paper available here. It’s just the right weight and easy to cut. Great colours too!

This is my version – the children will have their own ideas which is always good. There are lots of learning opportunities here – fine motor skill practice, naming and recognising colours, learning about shapes and sizes.

Older children could make their own version – they could cut out heart shapes themselves. 🙂

Valentine Wreath Craft – free Pdf

Valentine day craft.

To make:

Print a circle on to card for each child. Either cut them out for the children or let older children do that for themselves.

Print red and white hearts and again either cut them out for the children or let them do that themselves. They could add the names of family members to the hearts.

The ribbon can either be the verse from 1 John or blank for the child’s name. The children could colour this.

Let the children arrange the ribbon and hearts as they wish and then they can stick them down with glue.

I’ve included Pdf files of the templates.

Love_hearts Wreath Wreath_Ribbon Wreath_Ribbon_(Blank)

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