- You will need:
- Paper plate
- Paint
- PVA Glue
- Glitter
- Scissors
- Googly eyes
- Pipe cleaners
- First, cut paper plate in half, using a “ying-yang” shape
- Use one half for the body of the bird, and use the other half to cut out a heart for the wings and a triangular beak
- Using PVA glue or tape to attach heart-shaped wings
- Cut out little feet from pipe cleaners and tape on the back
- Decorate using paint and glitter!
Cardboard Heart Stamp (great way to recycle!)
- You will need:
- Toilet paper or paper towel rolls
- Red tempera paint
- Heavyweight paper to stamp on
- If using a paper towel roll, cut it in half to make the stamp easier for small kids to handle
- Press the roll to make it flat, and make 2 firm creases
- Invert one of the 2 creases and crease it again to form the indentation at the top of the heart stamp
- Fill a plate with a shallow amount of paint
- Place end of tube in the paint and print away!
- As the tube will lose shape the more it’s used, you can re-crease the roll, flip it over and use the other side, or make another roll!
- You will need:
- A tin can
- Pink and red paint
- Heart/ Valentine’s stickers
- Pink and red crepe streamers
- Hot glue
- Fishing line
- Remove bottom of tin can as well as the label
- Paint the tin can to your liking
- Decorate tin can with stickers
- Cut 8 pieces of crepe streamer of the same length
- Glue them at the bottom inside of the tin can
- You may start with 4 streamers of one colors, and then layer the other 4 streamers of the different color
- Cut a 12-14 inch piece of fishing line and glue it to the top of the tin can
- What you’ll need:
- Black, yellow and pink construction paper
- Market
- Tape
- Scissors
- Pipe cleaners
- Googly eyes
- Glue
- Cut 2 large hearts from each color of paper (black, yellow, pink)
- Cut 2 small hearts for the antennas, and 2 tiny hearts for the mouth
- To make cutting hearts easier for kids, fold each paper in half, and draw half a heart along the fold, then have them cut along the line, and voila!
- Create a pattern of black – yellow – black –yellow hearts and tape them together on the back. Make sure you end with a yellow heart so the face of the bee is visible
- Tape the two pink hearts on the sides for the wings
- Cute a pipe cleaner in half, and tape each one to the top back of your bee
- Tape small hearts to top of antennas
- Glue on tiny hearts for mouth, draw on mouth and glue on googly eyes!
- Make it a valentine by writing “Bee My Valentine”
Happy Valentine’s Day!