This Valentine’s Day, celebrate everyone in the household by making these sweet paper heart wreath craft, a simple construction project that will keep little ones happy and engaged for just the right amount of time. Plus they will be excited to help decorate for the holiday!
Valentine’s Paper Heart Wreath
Materials:
9″ dinner plate or paper plate
Recycled cereal box or other thin cardboard
Pencil
Scissors
Heart pattern
Construction paper: pink, purple, red, and blue
Markers, crayons or paint pens
Glue sticks
Yarn for hanger (optional)
Pattern
Directions:
Trace around the 9″ plate onto the cardboard.
Draw another circle inside that one, about an inch away from the outside circle.
Cut out the circle and the center of the circle to create a cardboard wreath base. (See photo.)
Fold a piece of scrap paper in half. Using the heart pattern line up the fold line of the scrap paper with the dotted line of the pattern. Cut out the shape so that when you open it, you have a heart shape.
Fold the short end of a piece of construction paper up about 3 inches. Place the folded heart around the folded paper and trace the half heart shape into the paper. You should be able to fit three hearts on the paper. Repeat this step for each colored piece of paper; you will have a total of 12 hearts. (See photo.)
Cut out all the hearts and flatten out the creases so that the hearts lay flat. Using markers, crayons, or paint pens, write conversation candy phrases on the hearts such as “LOVE,” “SWEET”, “LOVE”, “BE MINE”, “KISS” and “PAL”. (See photo.)
Arrange your hearts on top of the cardboard wreath shape without gluing them down. Once you have them where you want them, use the glue stick to attach each one.
You can hang the wreath as is or attach a piece of looped yarn to the back as a hanger.