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DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Valentine's Day Cups

Two versions of the same basic craft:

(see below instructions for templates)

Materials:

  • styrofoam or paper cup
  • tinfoil
  • popsicle stick or straw
  • paper
  • scissors
  • glue

 

Instructions:

  • cover cup with tinfoil
  • poke a hole in the top of the cup with scissors or a sharpened pencil
  • cut a heart out of pink paper
  • cut two leaves out of green paper
  • draw a face on the heart
  • glue or tape the heart to the top of the popsicle stick or straw
  • poke the straw/popsicle stick through the cup
  • glue or tape the leaves onto the popsicle stick

 

Materials:

  • styrofoam or paper cup
  • tinfoil
  • popsicle stick or straw
  • paper
  • scissors
  • glue
  • red paint
  • optional:  green tissue paper

 

Instructions:

  • cover cup with tinfoil
  • cut a heart out of pink paper
  • using red paint, make thumbprints on the heart
  • glue or tape the heart to the top of the popsicle stick or straw
  • fill the cup with green tissue paper
  • put the popsicle stick/straw in the cup full of green tissue paper
  • OPTIONAL:  Make a second heart flower
    or
    attach a second heart to the front of the cup with a paper clip
    with the message:

Thumbody Loves You!  It's Me(Us)!  Love _____

 

I'm providing templates (because I always try to provide templates), but in this case, I think it's great for the kids to trace and make their own hearts.  You can use a cookie cutter or make a cardboard tracer OR you can teach the children how to fold a piece of paper in half to make a symmetrical heart.

 

Template 1:  2 blank hearts
color       or       B&W

Template 2:  heart with face + leaves
color       or       B&W

Template 3:  2 hearts with "thumbody loves you"
color       or       B&W

 

 

Printable Version of these instructions