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Valentine's Day Activities

Love Banners

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We had a lot of fun marble painting, then turned it into a beautiful Valentine’s garland.

I will confess that this craft took us a couple of days. One day we did the marble painting and another day we did the cutting, sewing, and letter writing.

But the results… they were worth it!

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I’ve read about marble painting ideas on several of my favorite blogs and have been wanting to let the girls try it.

I found a cardboard box and a few large beads, since we didn’t have any marbles. I squirted a bit of red and pink paint on the paper and showed the girls how to move the box around and watch the marbles “paint.”

They had a lot of fun and loved working together. We ended up with four different paintings!

The paintings are so pretty and there are so many things you can do with them.

Use them as wrapping paper, note cards, or even a background for scrapbooking.

But, we were wanting to make a Valentine’s Day decoration with them.

What were we going to do? A garland, of course!

I found a heart-shaped cookie cutter and started tracing.

I used the cookie cutter so that the hearts would all be a uniform size. Then the cutting began.

While I cut, Lizzie practiced her writing. I had her write the word “love” a few times until she felt comfortable, then handed her a Sharpie.

She worked hard to write the letters on all of our cut-out hearts.

For the final step, we took a large, sharp needle and some thick thread. I sewed through both sides of each heart to string together each of the letters in the word “love”.

I did the sewing myself on these garlands, but a child could definitely do this part. Lizzie just chose not to. Use your discretion with your child’s abilities.

Now we have about a dozen love banners that are the perfect size to slide into an envelope and surprise some of our family and friends!

Heart-Stamped Valentines

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Yes, you can make a pretty Valentines using an empty toilet paper roll!We turned ours into stamps to make these pretty heart note cards.

We’ve explored cardboard roll stamping before and had a lot of fun, so I knew the girls would love making these Valentines.

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Supplies Needed

Empty cardboard tubes
Card stock
Red and pink paint

In order to prep for this projects, I squished and folded my cardboard tubes until they looked like a heart. To keep the point at the bottom, I found it helpful to staple the point near the middle of the tube.

Once our stamps were ready, I gave each girl a piece of white card stock and poured a bit of paint onto a couple of plastic lids.The girls got to work stamping. They took their work very seriously!

When we were done, we had a couple of very pretty heart pictures.But, as pretty as they were, they were destined to be note cards. I cut each piece of card stock in half and then folded each in half.

Now we’ve got four pretty Valentines ready to go!

This is a simple art project that is easy enough for a toddler and fun enough that your older kids will enjoy it. It’s a fun one for a multi-aged group.

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