4 Valentine’s Day Crafts for Your Littlest Ones

Paper Plate Lovebirds

• You will need:
  • Paper plate
  • Paint
  • PVA Glue
  • Glitter
  • Scissors
  • Googly eyes
  • Pipe cleaners
• First, cut paper plate in half, using a “ying-yang” shape
• Use one half for the body of the bird, and use the other half to cut out a heart for the wings and a triangular beak
• Using PVA glue or tape to attach heart-shaped wings
• Cut out little feet from pipe cleaners and tape on the back
• Decorate using paint and glitter!

Cardboard Heart Stamp (great way to recycle!)

• You will need:
  • Toilet paper or paper towel rolls
  • Red tempera paint
  • Heavyweight paper to stamp on
• If using a paper towel roll, cut it in half to make the stamp easier for small kids to handle
• Press the roll to make it flat, and make 2 firm creases
• Invert one of the 2 creases and crease it again to form the indentation at the top of the heart stamp
• Fill a plate with a shallow amount of paint
• Place end of tube in the paint and print away!
• As the tube will lose shape the more it’s used, you can re-crease the roll, flip it over and use the other side, or make another roll!

Heart Windsocks

• You will need:
  • A tin can
  • Pink and red paint
  • Heart/ Valentine’s stickers
  • Pink and red crepe streamers
  • Hot glue
  • Fishing line
• Remove bottom of tin can as well as the label
• Paint the tin can to your liking
• Decorate tin can with stickers
• Cut 8 pieces of crepe streamer of the same length
• Glue them at the bottom inside of the tin can
• You may start with 4 streamers of one colors, and then layer the other 4 streamers of the different color
• Cut a 12-14 inch piece of fishing line and glue it to the top of the tin can

Bee Mine Valentine

• What you’ll need:
  • Black, yellow and pink construction paper
  • Market
  • Tape
  • Scissors
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Googly eyes
  • Glue
• Cut 2 large hearts from each color of paper (black, yellow, pink)
• Cut 2 small hearts for the antennas, and 2 tiny hearts for the mouth
• To make cutting hearts easier for kids, fold each paper in half, and draw half a heart along the fold, then have them cut along the line, and voila!
• Create a pattern of black – yellow – black –yellow hearts and tape them together on the back. Make sure you end with a yellow heart so the face of the bee is visible
• Tape the two pink hearts on the sides for the wings
• Cute a pipe cleaner in half, and tape each one to the top back of your bee
• Tape small hearts to top of antennas
• Glue on tiny hearts for mouth, draw on mouth and glue on googly eyes!
• Make it a valentine by writing “Bee My Valentine”

Happy Valentine’s Day!