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DLTK's Holiday Activities for Kids
Heart Dragonfly Paper Craft
Read a bit about
DLTK's Grow
With Me Craft Concept to get some ideas on how this basic craft
idea can be used with different materials to make it appropriate for
everyone from ages 2 thru 82!
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Tip 1: Include the message "You make my heart flutter!"
Tip 2: Glue the heart animal to the front of a folded over piece of construction
paper or a doily to make a cute Valentine's Day card.
Tip 3: Purchase fancy paper from the scrapbooking store and print the
B&W version onto this for an extra fancy Heart Animal.
Tip 4: Scotch tape a straw or popsicle stick to the
bottom to make a puppet
Tip 5: Glue a small piece of sandpaper on the back to make
a felt board character
Tip 6: Cut construction paper into 4 inch wide strips as
long as you can make them. Tape two together to make even longer. Measure
around child's head to make a construction paper 'crown'. Glue Heart Animal
to front of the crown to make a Valentine's Day hat.
Materials:
Directions:
- Print out the template of choice. I like printing the B&W version
on colored paper.
- Color (where appropriate).
- Cut out the template pieces. (the pieces on the template are at about
the angle they will be on the finished craft. That should help you sort
out which pieces belong where)
- Glue pieces together:
| Each of the 4 rows of the template is one wing (there
are 4 wings). To assemble the wing, glue the hearts in a row in
the pattern small, medium, large, medium, small. |
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| Repeat for all 4 wings and then arrange them two on
each side. |
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| To make the body, stack the remaining small hearts one
on top of another and glue together. |
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| Glue the heart with the face onto the top of the body
so it's right side up. |
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Option for mass-producing - young children: Print out
the B&W template. Trace the pieces onto stiff cardboard (back of paper pads
works well) or margarine/ice cream container lids. Cut out to make permanent
templates. Allow the children to trace these permanent templates onto
different colors of construction paper to make their animal
Option for mass-producing - older children: Omit the
templates. Let the children cut out heart shapes in various sizes from colored
construction paper (show them how to fold paper in half and then cut to make a perfectly
symmetrical heart). Let the children create their own animals by putting together
hearts of different sizes (you can pre-make a few example animals to give them some
inspiration).
Templates:
- Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
- Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one
page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).
Heart Dragonfly template
(color) or
(B&W)
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