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Here are four Valentine’s Day crafts that will brighten your students’ day –and allow them to share that same joy with someone else.TRANSCRIPT
Valentines Your Students Will Love to Make
Valentine’s Day is a fun time for children to
exchange cards and candy. But it also carries a
greater life lesson: Learning how to show others
love, kindness and appreciation.
Here are four Valentine’s Day crafts that will
brighten your students’ day – and allow them to
share that same joy with someone else.
The Greater Lesson
Notebook Treat Bags
What You’ll Need:
• Regular, loose-leaf
notebook paper
• Red & white vintage
valentine stickers
• Decorative-edge scissors
• Glue sticks
• Candy hearts
Directions1) Cut each piece of notebook paper in half horizontally, giving each
student a half-sheet.
2) Fold one side of the paper over, leaving ¾ of an inch of space in
between the two ends.
3) Apply glue on the ¾ of an inch of open space, and fold the glued
end over the non-glued end to seal it off.
4) Fold one of the open sides of the bag like you would a gift, sealing
it with stick glue. This will be the bottom of your treat bag.
5) Cut the only side of the paper bag that’s still open with the
decorative-edge scissors.
6) Put the candy hearts inside and close with a vintage sticker.
See the final product here.
Candy Butterflies
What You’ll Need:
• Snack-sized bags of M&M’s
• Washable green finger paint
• Wooden tongue depressors
• Pipe cleaners
• Old newspaper
• Tape
• Paint brushes
• Art smocks for children
Directions1) Cover each student’s desk or an art table with newspaper
and hold it in place with tape.
2) Pass out art smocks, paint brushes, tongue depressors,
and pipe cleaners.
3) Put a quarter-sized amount of green paint on each child’s
newspaper.
4) Let the children paint the tongue depressors and allow time
to dry.
5) Use the pipe cleaners to fasten the bags of M&M’s to each
depressor.
See the final product here.
Lace Heart Doily Cards
What You’ll Need:
• 4-inch doilies
• Pack of construction paper
• Glue sticks
• Washable markers
Directions
1) Pre-cut the construction paper into heart shapes.
2) Pass out one paper heart and one lace doily heart to each
student.
3) Allow them to use the glue sticks to attach the lace doily heart to
the construction paper heart.
4) Let your students handwrite the recipient’s name in the middle of
the valentine.
See the final product here.
Hungry Valentine’s Day Mailbox
What You’ll Need:
• Cereal box (ask each student
to bring one in, but also bring
in extras)
• Red gift wrapping paper
• Construction paper
• White computer paper
• Tape or glue sticks
• Child-safe scissors
• Washable markersPhoto Credit: BarbaraLN
Directions1) On one side of the box, toward the bottom, use scissors to cut out
a heart-shaped mouth.
2) Wrap the cereal box in gift paper and seal with tape.
3) Cut a heart-shaped hole through the wrapping paper in the same
place that there’s a heart-shaped hole in the box.
4) Cut two strips from the white construction paper.
5) Cut one side of each white strip in a jagged line, for the teeth.
6) Cut out large hearts for the feet, medium-sized hearts for the ears
and small hearts for the noses.
7) Use stick glue or tape to attach the teeth, feet, ears, and nose.
8) Draw eyes using the markers.
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