Making a Valentine's Bird Card Holder

Category Valentine's Day

Valentine's Bird Card Holder - closeup of card holder

When children exchange Valentine's Day cards at school, they often need to bring in a holder of some type to collect their cards. This bird card holder is so cute, as well as functional. Learn how to make your own here.

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Valentine's Bird Card Holder

By 15mhhm15 [1,124 Posts, 2,489 Comments]

February 9, 2020

My daughter's class will be having a Valentine's card exchange soon. She requested a bird theme. Here is a Valentine's bird card holder tutorial. All of the supplies I used, I already had at home.

Total Time: 30 minutes

Valentine's Bird Card Holder - punch holes, thread with ribbon and it is ready to hang

Supplies:

red acrylic paint
paint brush
2 paper plates
scissors
heart foam sticker
hot glue
glue
ribbon
button
1 pipe cleaner

Steps:

You will need 2 paper plates.

Valentine's Bird Card Holder - two paper plates

Freehand and cut out a bird silhouette.

Valentine's Bird Card Holder - cut a bird silhouette from one plate

Paint your bird silhouette. (Since my paper plate is red I did not have to paint the other plate.) Allow paint to dry.

Valentine's Bird Card Holder - cut plate and paint bottle

Valentine's Bird Card Holder - paint the back side of the cut plate, red and allow to dry

With the paper plate scraps, I cut out a triangle piece as the bird's beak and glued it down. You could also cut out feet with the scraps, but I made feet with pipe cleaners instead.

Valentine's Bird Card Holder - paper scrap beak

Valentine's Bird Card Holder - beak glued in place

Valentine's Bird Card Holder - pipe cleaner feet

I used two foam heart stickers as the feathers.

Valentine's Bird Card Holder - foam heart stickers as wing feathers

Glue on a button as an eye.

Valentine's Bird Card Holder - button eye

Hot glue the paper plates together.

Valentine's Bird Card Holder - glue the plates together

Poke 2 holes through the plates and thread with ribbon and secure with a knot. Ready to be hung. At school they're hanging their Valentine's card holders on their coat racks.