Valentine’s Day is the perfect time for kids to make sweet and creative crafts. These animal heart crafts are full of love and imagination. Children can turn simple shapes into snails, dinosaurs, hedgehogs, or birds by adding colorful hearts as shells, spines, wings, or body decorations. It’s a playful way to celebrate the season of love while building fine motor skills and enjoying art time.
What You Need
- Printed animal templates (snail, dinosaur, hedgehog, bird, etc.)
- White paper or cardstock
- Colored paper (red, pink, purple, yellow, etc.)
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Markers or crayons
- Cardboard pieces (optional, for sturdier animals)
- Googly eyes (optional)
How to Make
- Print or draw templates — Start with a simple animal body shape on paper.
- Color or cut out the body — Use markers or crayons to color the animal, or cut the shape out from cardboard using the template.
- Paste on a white sheet — Glue the animal body onto a clean white sheet of paper.
- Cut out hearts — From colored paper, cut out small hearts in different sizes.
- Decorate the animal — Paste the hearts onto the animal’s body. They can be spines for a hedgehog, shells for a snail, wings for a bird, or scales for a dinosaur.
- Add details — Glue on googly eyes, draw a mouth, and add any extra decorations.
- Finish and display — Let the craft dry, then hang it up or place it on display.
Templates:
Valentine Heart Hedgehog Craft for Kids
Valentine Heart Snail Craft for Kids
Valentine Heart Butterfly Craft for Kids
Valentine Heart Dinosaur Craft for Kids
Valentine Heart Ladybug Craft for Kids
Valentine Heart Pig Craft for Kids
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