Valentines cards for kids: How to make a love bird card

We didn’t do craft in 2013.

In 2014; there is a new me. The new me is very aware of how much Chatterbox loves to craft, and also how much I used to love doing Origami.

So this year; KiddyCharts will do craft. In fact, we are making every effort to try and do something regularly. I can’t commit to being a Red Ted Art or an In the Playroom; in fact, no matter how hard I tried, I am fairly sure that both those lovely ladies are way better at this sort of thing.

However, they don’t have what I have; Chatterbox as inspiration.

Our first craft project of 2014; is this lovely Valentines card for kids. We chatted about the design together, and Chatterbox made it herself, with minimal guidance from me. There are valentines card templates for all the fiddly pictures on there, including the lovebirds, and the big and small heart. Hopefully, this will make the project easy for you to do as well.

Valentine cards for kids – what do you need

Card templates

3 different colours of card; 1 A4 for the card (we used pink, pearl red and yellow

PVA glue

Pen and coloured pencils

Scissors

Small foam squares (either sticky, or cut from larger foam and glued)

Valentines cards for kids – how to make it

Fold one sheet of A4 card in half gently to find the middle of your card; unfold
Fold each edge to the middle of the A4 card using the crease line you just made as a guide
Draw your tree design on each half – giving each tree a branch for your love birds to sit on. You can colour these in or leave blank as Chatterbox has done
Cut out your love birds; raise them from the card using a foam square and glue on the branch opposite each other…making sure their beaks touch when you close the card. Ah, kissing ;-) My daughter did this herself, so below they are slightly out…adds to her charm though don’t you think?
Open out your card
Cut out the large heart from the template and glue into the card; the centre of the large heart should follow the middle of your card (crease in step 1)
Cut out enough small hearts for your message using the template. We did 8 to make the message “I love Dad”
Glue each one in a pattern on to the large heart
Sign your card
Step back and admire your handywork.

Easy right? If we can do it, so can you. Any problems though, do contact us.

If you are after further Valentines Cards for Kids, then do nip over to my Pinterest Account; follow me and the board we have there for Valentines Day crafts.

Follow Helen Neale (KiddyCharts)’s board Love Valentines with kids on Pinterest.

I know it is a month off, but it soon comes around :-D

Helen

Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine!Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time.KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10.It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania.Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on.Get in touch TODAY!