Valentine crafts are fun for kids to create and make cute decorations around your home. Try this cute project and catch the sun with these beautiful Valentine’s Day suncatchers!
We at Kids Activities Blog hope these hearts in your window will make your days a little bit sunnier regardless of the weather outside.
Valentine Crafts
We loved this Valentine’s Day activity because it was easy, inexpensive and colorful. Plus using the hole punch worked my preschooler’s fine motor skills. The result is beautiful and is guaranteed to warm your hearts.
Valentine Craft Materials:
- Heart shaped paper hole punch (any size you want)
- Contact paper
- Painters tape
- Red, pink and white construction paper
- Scissors
- Stickers
Valentine Crafts Activities
Cut the construction paper into small squares, then punch the hearts from the paper.
Work with your preschooler if paper punching is new to him. This activity can be very difficult for small hands and fingers but great fine motor skill work.
Valentine Crafts for Kids
Place contact paper onto your table. Secure it with painters tape. Allow your child to pour, pinch, place, dump, shake – whatever method he chooses – the paper hearts onto the contact paper. Take time to explore the table and create a lovely design, together. I used this time as an opportunity to discuss “love”: What is love? What do we love in life? We also took this time to add stickers and medium and large paper heart cut outs.
Catch The Sun
To finish up the project, I cut out two hearts (one for each of my boys) from the contact paper and outlined it with sticker paper. Placing the hearts on the windows was lovely. The boys were so happy to see their work displayed and to see the light shine through their hearts.
More Kids Activities
We hope you add this fun project to your child’s Valentine crafts this year. What a cute way to catch the sun and bring a smile to your face at the same time. For more great kids activities for Valentine’s day, we hope these ideas warm your heart:
About Marnie Craycroft
I thought they were little pieces of paper in the sun catcher. How fun is the heart punch?! This is such a cute project.
great idea, like it more than the crayon shaving, waxpaper suncatcher but the directions are confusing — I think you mean to say put the punched hearts onto the contact paper and the last step is also confusing, i am assuming you have to fold the contact paper at some point and then cut it into a heart shape.
LOVE LOVE LOVE THis… and we even has a little heart puncher from the $1 spot at Michaels so we can wait to create this week for our Valentine fun. Thank you so much for sharing on our After School Link Up! Here’s the link http://theeducatorsspinonit.blogspot.com/2013/02/last-minute-valentines-day-ideas-after.html
Thanks for sharing such a cool project!
Have a great week!
Susie@bowdabra
http://bowdabrablog.com/2013/02/09/saturday-showcase-craft-project-linky-19/