DIY Valentines in 5 minutes - detailed master classes for children

Bright, cheerful and touching heart cards are a symbol of Valentine's Day. Children especially love to make valentines with their own hands. The colorful news can then be presented to parents or a nice classmate.

What you need for work

The simplest but most effective valentines are made from paper. Traditional “romantic” colors are red and pink. But you don’t have to restrain your imagination - the finished card can shimmer with all the colors of the rainbow.

On a note. To make a valentine card, you can use not only regular paper, but also corrugated or designer paper. You can also take double-sided colored paper - then the card will be made in the same color scheme on all sides.

For additional valentine decoration you can use:

• beads;
• beads;
• sequins;
• sparkles, etc.

DIY Valentine card for 1st grade children “Simply as simple as that”

This card is quick and easy to make. Even 1st grade students and older preschool children can do this craft.

Materials:

• paper - 2 sheets (white and red double-sided);
• pencil;
• glue.

Stages of work:

1. Take a sheet of double-sided red paper. Print a stencil on it (template 1). Cut out the heart in a spiral.
2. From a sheet of white paper, cut out a rectangle with sides the same dimensions as the sides of template 1.
3. Place the red rectangle on the white one. Make sure that the white base does not protrude above the red one.
4. Apply glue to the part of the red rectangle that the scissors did not touch. Glue onto the white base. There is no need to glue the heart spiral.
5. Raise the spiral and write a romantic message on the white background.
6. Valentine is ready. If you pull on the smallest hearts at the beginning of the spiral, the hidden message will be revealed. And if you let go of the spring, it will return to its place again.

Template 1:

Detailed master class:

Valentine card “Hearts from Mishka”

An original card for a friend, kindergarten teacher or elementary school teacher. This simple Valentine's card can be made even with very young children.

Materials:

• paper;
• pencil;
• scissors;
• felt-tip pen.

Stages of work:

1. Print the “Teddy Bear with a Heart” template.
2. Attach the bear template to white paper, outline, and cut out.
3. Place the heart template on the red base, outline it, cut it out.
4. Fold the heart in half and make a cut along the dotted line.
5. Bend the bear's paw along the dotted line. Wrap the bear's paw around the front and glue the folded piece to its back.
6. Attach the heart to the bear's paws.
7. If desired, color the bear and the little bear girl's skirt.

Detailed master class:

Pattern 2:

DIY postcard for February 14 “Volume heart”

To prepare this postcard for February 14, you will need some skills in marking and folding paper. Therefore, it is better to do crafts with older children, starting from 3rd grade.

Materials:

• paper;
• glue;
• scissors.

Stages of work:

1. Make a square out of a piece of paper.
2. Bend the workpiece in half twice, and then diagonally.
3. Bend the diagonals in the opposite direction and fold them into a square.
4. Bend the workpiece again along the already bent diagonal. You will get a triangle.
5. Using a pencil, draw half a heart in the lower corner of the triangle, between the bend, and cut it out.
6. Unfold the piece, then fold it in half. Trace the resulting heart with a pencil.
7. Fold the piece in half again, circle the heart on the third part, and cut it out. There should be a total of 3 hearts and 1 square.
8. The inside of the resulting postcard can be decorated with paper of a different color or painted with paints and pencils. Write a beautiful message for Valentine's Day on one part or all 4

Detailed master class:

Postcard “Bouquet of Hearts”

Another simple master class for children on making a valentine.

Materials:

• colored paper (pink and red);
• white sheet of A4 paper;
• glue;
• scissors;
• markers;
• ribbon.

Stages of work:

1. Make blanks: attach printed heart stencils to red paper, outline and cut out. You should have a stack of hearts: 6 small, 4 medium, and 7 large. Additionally, you need to cut out 7 small hearts from pink paper.
2. Fold the resulting hearts in half. So bright and pink flowers from hearts will seem voluminous.
3. On a white A4 sheet, under a ruler, draw vertical lines with a felt-tip pen - flower stems. They must intersect at one point - this is how you get a bouquet.
4. Place the hearts evenly onto the stems.
5. Attach a bow at the intersection of the lines. It is made from thin ribbon.

Detailed master class:

Valentine card for mom “Heart in palms”

A very touching gift for mom or dad for the holiday of Love.The heart of a child in the palms will not leave any adult indifferent.

Materials:

• A4 sheet of paper;
• red paper;
• glue;
• pencil;
• scissors.

Stages of work:

1. The child needs to outline his palm on the first sheet of white paper and cut it out.
2. Fold the second white sheet in half, place the stencil palm on the fold line, outline and cut out. You will get a postcard from two joined palms. They are held together by a fold line.
3. Cut out hearts using the template. You can make them without a stencil. Just fold a sheet of red paper in half and draw half a heart at the fold line. After cutting out the blanks, you will get symmetrical whole hearts. You need 3-5 of them.
4. Glue the first heart completely to the palms. In the rest, glue only the middle. Glue the second piece in the middle to the first heart on the palms, the third to the second, etc.

DIY Valentine card from foamiran “Flying Heart”

The velvety foamiran, pleasant to the touch, will make very beautiful and delicate valentines.

Materials:

• felt (white);
• foamiran (pink and red);
• pencil, paper;
• glue gun;
• scissors;
• toothpick.

Stages of work:

1. Draw a wings template on paper and cut it out. Transfer the image onto white felt.
2. Using the template, cut out a heart from red foamiran. Cut out a smaller heart from the same pink material.
3. Using a glue gun, glue the red heart to the white wings. Glue a pink one on top of the red heart.

On a note. Additionally, the “flying” card can be decorated with sequins, rhinestones, beads, etc.

Ideas for original valentines

It’s convenient to make Valentine’s Day cards from ready-made templates.For example, this will make a single heart from two loving hearts.

Pattern 3:

After printing, just bend the workpiece along the lines and put one heart into another.

Another beautiful and easy idea: a valentine jar with hearts. Cardboard of any color is suitable for the base. It needs to be bent in half. Trace the outline of the template and cut out a jar from colored paper and glue it onto cardboard. Fill the jar with hearts of different colors.

Pattern 4:

Kids in kindergarten will be happy to create a charming applique for moms and dads - a caterpillar made from hearts. All that remains to do to the glued blanks is to finish drawing the muzzle, legs and horns.

Another version of the Valentine's Day applique for preschoolers: a fish made from hearts. It is made from cardboard or multi-colored pieces of thick paper.

Materials:

• 4 hearts of different colors and sizes (1 large, 2 medium and 1 small);
• scissors;
• glue;
• decorations for decorating the “eyes”.

Stages of work:

1. Using the prepared templates, make 4 hearts of different sizes. You can draw and cut it yourself, without a stencil.
2. Glue one medium-sized heart on the front of the largest heart with the “corner” facing forward. This is the head of a fish. Glue a small heart on the corner - this is a fish mouth.
3. Glue a second medium-sized heart on the opposite side of the large heart. This is the tail of a fish.
4. Glue an artificial eye onto the first middle heart (you can draw it).
5. The fish is ready.

You can't confuse a Valentine's card with others - it is small in size and contains the symbol of the Valentine's Day - a heart. These cute DIY crafts are sure to lift the mood of the recipient.After all, even the most uncomplicated and simple valentines created by children carry the love and warmth of the little author.