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February 11, 2020

Handmade Valentine's Day CardsYou can create these lovely handmade Valentine's Day cards out of cereal boxes. My daughter made these for her classmates as well as for us and her brother.

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Total Time: 20 minutes + time for your child to decorate

Supplies:

  • 2 cereal boxes
  • scissors
  • paper trimmer - Optional
  • glue stick
  • tempura paint sticks
  • Sharpie

Steps:

  1. Cut along side of cereal box to create a flat surface.
  2. Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - cut cereal boxes to get flat pieces
     
  3. Salvage two large rectangle pieces. Then, using your finger nail peel off the cereal box packaging layer so you are left with plain kraft cardboard.
  4. Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - cut out two
     
    Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - peel off the printed layer
     
    Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - plain paper left
     
  5. Cut out squares in your choice of size. I made 12 squares.
  6. Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - cut cardboard into squares
     
  7. With the other cereal box, I cut out assorted heart shapes and heart outlines.
  8. Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - cut out heart shapes and outlines from the other cereal box
     
    Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - hearts laying on the squares
     
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  9. Glue down heart pieces to the cards.
  10. Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - glue the hearts to the squares
     
    Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - sample of heart shapes glued down
     
  11. You are ready for your child to decorate their cards to gift to their friends. You can use any supplies you'd like for decorating that you have on hand. You could use crayons, paint, embellishments, etc. (My daughter used tempera paint, markers, color pencils, and stickers.)
  12. Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - child using a marker to decorate card
     
    Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - using green marker to color heart shapes
     
    Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - two finished green heart cards
     
    Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - heart shaped stickers added to center of the green hearts
     
    Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - adding color around a green heart with a marker
     
    Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - green heart card with green and yellow background created with a marker
     
    Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - coloring the inside of a heart outline shape with a blue marker
     
  13. We had some extra and she pointed these out for us and her brother. Final touches, using a Sharpie, write: To and Fr.
  14. Handmade Valentine's Day Cards - cards for family
     
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