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This was a simple yet fun Valentine’s heart craft I did with my kids. To do the craft, I prepared the following materials:
- A heart shape cut from construction paper
- A plain white sheet of paper
- Glue
- Markers
- An assortment of red, white, and pink embellishments including sequins, feathers, and pom poms
QBoy and XGirl love any opportunity to use glue, so the kids enthusiastically started off by gluing their hearts on to the white paper.
While they put the glue on their hearts, I realized there were lessons to be learned even in such a simple task as this. For example, I helped them to understand that they needed to put glue on all the parts of the heart, not just the bottom, in order for it to stick well to their papers.
And when they turned their hearts over to stick them to the paper, I showed them how to center the hearts on the paper and push down on the entire surface of the heart to make sure it was properly glued down.
Once the hearts were glued down, I had expected the kids to dive right in the embellishments, but they surprised me by wanting to use the markers instead.
Eventually a few pom poms and other embellishments were added.
The kids wanted to give their Valentine’s hearts away to their friends. They each ended up making two hearts to give to two friends. Here are the final products!
More Valentine’s Day learning resources
More Valentine posts from Gift of Curiosity:
- Valentine Montessori activities
- Valentine sensory bin
- Heart suncatcher
- Marbleized hearts
- Find the hearts Valentine’s sensory bin
- Books about Valentine’s Day
- Valentine’s Printables Pack
- Valentine Bingo
- Valentine I Spy game
- Valentine Do-a-Dot Printables
For more Valentine ideas, check out my Valentine Activities for Kids page and my Valentine’s Pinterest board.
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Thanks for linking up with Hobbies and Handicrafts. I love to see kids creating their own Valentines. They are so much more meaningful.
Stopping by from Sharing Saturday! I linked up a post of a couple Valentine’s Crafts we have done this week and had to see yours! Love the simple heart creations : ) I’m sure the kiddos loved using glue, pom poms and markers!
They made adorable hearts! My little guy loves squeezing the glue bottle!
Thanks for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
Looks like they really enjoyed themselves. Nothing like sticking and gluing.
Yeah, sticking and gluing always provides entertainment for my kids. 🙂
Great activity for preschoolers. I bet they had a blast. Jodi @ http://www.meaningfulmama.com
Oh I bet the kids had a ball with this, I know mine would. Great project for letting them use their imagination. Thanks for sharing on We Made That!
The kids made adorable hearts! Glue is my girl’s all time favorite and she is up for any project if it has glue:))
Awwww! I love the results – the hearts came out really cute. Thanks for linking up at Family Fun Friday.
God Bless! ~ Monica
glue, pompoms… kids love it! Thanks for sharing your post with us at Eco-Kids Tuesday. Hope to see you back today! http://likemamalikedaughter.blogspot.com/2013/02/melt-my-heart-eco-kids-tuesday.html
Love the ideas, blog postings and free printables! Your site is my first stop when I need an activity for my 3 year old.
Question – where did you get the red trays? Would you please share or provide the brand? Thank you!
I got the trays from Lakeshore Learning. They are the Easy-Clean Craft Trays. I own 16 of them in different colors and use them all the time!
No doubt sticking and gluing are kids favorite things to do. I’m sure my daughter will love it