Friday 12 February 2021

Watercolour Valentine's Hearts - Kids' Crafts

I don't go in for Valentine's decorating usually, but I thought it would be nice to do some Valentine's crafting with my daughter, who is coming up for 21 months old.  Anything to provide some entertainment during these lockdown days!

Make easy watercolour hearts with your children as Valentine's crafting.  You can use them as hanging decorations on a Valentine's tree.

First I gave her some pink, purple and red watercolour paints to use on an A4 piece of plain white card.  I had to fill in the gaps, as she was more interested in painting with just the water than the paints!  We covered both sides of the card and left it to dry.

Make easy watercolour hearts with your children as Valentine's crafting.  You can use them as hanging decorations on a Valentine's tree.

I then cut the A4 sheet into 3 sections that would fit into my Cricut Joy and used it to cut out hearts.  You could easily do this by hand, though.

Make easy watercolour hearts with your children as Valentine's crafting.  You can use them as hanging decorations on a Valentine's tree.

To make them more durable when being manhandled by a toddler, I then laminated them...

Make easy watercolour hearts with your children as Valentine's crafting.  You can use them as hanging decorations on a Valentine's tree.

I punched small holes in each one and prepared some sparkly gold and pink yarn into hanging loops...

Make easy watercolour hearts with your children as Valentine's crafting.  You can use them as hanging decorations on a Valentine's tree.

The sparkly yarn I used was Anchor Artise Metallic* - I have this in quite a few colours!  It's especially good for Christmas crafting!

Then my daughter got involved again... she would hand me a heart and a loop, which I would string together.  She'd then hang them on a decorative white tree I have, or show me where to hang them.  She retained interest for about two thirds of the hearts!  (Some re-distribution did occur afterwards!)

Make easy watercolour hearts with your children as Valentine's crafting.  You can use them as hanging decorations on a Valentine's tree.

A pretty Valentine's tree was the result!

If your child is older they could be involved in more elements of the process.  Emily was happy with this, though, and proudly showed her Daddy the heart tree she made!

Do let me know if you give this a go - I'd love to see!


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3 comments:

  1. Little crafters always turn out to be adult crafters. A nice little project. Jo x

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    1. Thanks Jo - I hope so! I'd like her to be my crafting buddy! x

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