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Valentine Heart Card: A Children's Craft


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A funky handmade Valentine's card for the young-at-heart, an easy craft for children. Completed card.

 

Approximate Time: 20 minutes

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Supplies:

  • a printed copy of the provided pattern sheet
  • 8.2 inches x 5.5 inches lightly textured cream-colored cardboard
  • 4 inches x 4 inches piece of red riffled cardboard
  • 4 inches x 4 inches piece of black felt
  • one small red fabric bow
  • one pair of small wiggle eyes
  • the following two rhinestones: 1 red flat-back round rhinestone and 1 red flat-back heart rhinestone
    See http://www.dreamtimecreations.com/ for a possible supplier.
  • one red glitter pipe cleaner
  • pencil
  • ruler
  • pair of standard scissors
  • one heart-shaped cookie cutter
  • quick-drying glue
  • Pilot drawing pen, size 03
  • sheet of ordinary red paper
  • one matching envelope

Instructions:

  1. Fold the 8.2 inches x 5.5 inches cream-colored cardboard crosswise in half to create a card 5.5 inches x 4.1 inches ~ use the ruler to make the fold neat and smooth.
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  3. Use the heart-shaped cookie cutter to trace a heart onto the red riffled cardboard and then cut it out.
  4. Red heart for body.
     

  5. From the pipe cleaner, cut two 1.5 inch arms and two 2 inch legs.
  6. From the black felt, cut two hands and two feet, as well as a small mouth.
  7. Pattern for hands and feet.
     

  8. Bend each arm 0.3 inches from the one side to make an "elbow" for each arm.
  9. Pipe cleaner arms.
     

  10. Glue the arms and legs to the back of the heart. Remember to use only a small drop of glue for each arm and leg.
  11. Now, glue the heart (with the arms and legs already in place) onto the front of the card.
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  13. Glue the felt hands and feet in place, again using only a small drop of glue to affix each hand and foot. Remember that the thumbs of the hands must be at the top.
  14. Now glue the eyes and mouth onto the heart to make a face. Then, using the red flat-back round rhinestone for a nose, glue it in place too.
  15. Creating face.
     

  16. Glue the fabric bow in place at the top of the heart.
  17. Glue the red flat-back heart rhinestone in place where the two hands overlap.
  18. Gluing red rhinestone in place.
     

  19. From the sheet of ordinary red paper, cut a piece sized 3.6 inches by 5.2 inches and glue it to the inside of the card. Using the Pilot drawing pen, write "My Valentine, I have your heart in my hands!" in ornamental writing on the piece of red paper that you have pasted on the inside of the card.
  20. Completed card.
     

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Photos included:
Photo 1: The pattern sheet for the hands and feet.
Photo 2: Use the heart-shaped cookie cutter to trace a heart onto the red riffled cardboard and then cut it out.
Photo 3: Bend each arm 0.3 inches from the one side to make an "elbow" for each arm.
Photo 4: Glue the felt hands and feet in place. Remember that the thumbs of the hands must be at the top.
Photo 5: Glue the eyes, nose, mouth and bow onto the heart.
Photo 6: Glue the red flat-back heart rhinestone in place where the two hands overlap.
Photo 7: The completed card.

By Benetta from Pretoria, Gauteng

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