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February is a fantastic month to kick-start your new year’s resolution to be more creative with with arts and crafts, what better way to spread the love than creating beautiful Valentine’s crafts?! Here are some pretty and easy-to-make projects that will bring joy and creativity to your home and also keep them busy during the February half term on it’s way!
Valentine’s Day is a perfect occasion for children to express their love and appreciation for family and friends.
Here are some ideas:
Heart Pop-Up Cards: Use construction paper to create pop-up hearts inside the card. Decorate with stickers, glitter, and drawings.
Handprint Cards: Trace your child’s hand on coloured paper, cut it out, and fold the fingers to form a heart shape. This is such a sweet way to keep precious memoires and gift a loved one something meaningful!
Airbrush Cards: Try our airbrush maker kit and create some graffiti love hearts!
Maped Top-Tip! Get experimental and try using our Pixel Factory kit to recreate this adorable 3D Valentine’s card.
Valentine’s Day Collage
Capture the spirit of Valentine’s Day with a paper collage. This is such a great way to involve children of all ages
Heart Collage: Use different shades of red, pink, and white paper to cut out hearts of various sizes. Arrange and glue them onto a large piece of paper to create a beautiful heart collage.
Love Tree: Draw a tree trunk on a piece of paper and use heart-shaped leaves to fill in the branches. Add messages of love on each heart.
Origami Hearts
Origami is a wonderful way to develop fine motor skills and practise completing tasks that take longer to finish. This is especially useful and fun for your little ones who may have just started school too!
Heart Garland: Create multiple origami hearts and string them together to make a beautiful garland to hang around the house.
Brighten up your home with Valentine’s Day-themed paper flowers. This is a great alternative to gifting fresh flowers as they can be kept for a much longer time.
Heart Petal Flowers: Cut out heart shapes from red, pink, and white paper. Arrange them in a circle to form a flower and glue them onto a paper stem.
Tissue Paper Roses: Layer different colours of tissue paper, fold them accordion-style, and secure the middle with a pipe cleaner. Fluff out the layers to create a rose.
Tips for Parents
Supervision: Always supervise your children during crafting to ensure safety, especially when using scissors and glue.
Encouragement: Encourage creativity and let your child take the lead in designing and decorating their crafts.
Clean-Up: Make clean-up a part of the fun by turning it into a game or a race.
These paper arts and crafts ideas are sure to provide hours of fun and creativity for you and your children. Enjoy crafting together and making wonderful memories this February for the month of love!
