Paper heart
Perhaps the simplest and most common option for making a beautiful heart with your own hands is to create it out of paper. From such a common material you can make original heart-shaped crafts, both simple flat and voluminous hearts.
Most often, Valentine’s cards, voluminous crafts using the origami technique, paper garlands from small hearts are created from paper on this theme...
Master class on paper valentines for children
Undoubtedly, in schools today there is still such a tradition as setting up mailboxes and throwing anonymous wishes in there, which everyone then receives. You will agree that this is so cool and tempting that it makes this holiday unique for everyone.
Therefore, most schoolchildren, and just preschool children, love to create magnificent cards, and then give them to all those whom they love and adore.
Therefore, if you have children, then you can easily give them such a gift.
For children in kindergarten and at home, by the way, you can use this type of work as a group to make such a drawing, crumple a heart shape from ordinary toilet paper containers, and then dip it in paint and fill the entire Whatman paper. Even a 2-3 year old child can cope with this task.
And if you still haven’t learned how to draw a heart, then you can use this stencil.
After all, children can simply decorate it with felt-tip pens or pencils and draw their own patterns, or use nothing else. Anti-stress drawing, or as it is called coloring.
You can find various ideas if you want a bunch of such anti-stress products, of course this work will be more addressed to high school and schoolchildren. I have several coloring books in my piggy bank, if you are interested, write to me.
Or make a bookmark for this topic, cut out the hearts from paper yourself, and the child should glue them on as an example, but something like this.
I also want to share the idea of making valentines in the shape of ladybugs that will hide a love message; you can give such a charm to a friend or girlfriend.
You can also make origami, because such an activity will certainly delight the kids. Make a boat with them, and instead of a sail, a symbol of lovers on a stick.
A simple paper heart-shaped card
Necessary materials:
- white paper and red double-sided paper;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- PVA glue.
Draw a big heart on white paper and cut it out, and cut out 3-4 small hearts from red paper. Carefully bend the white heart in half, and also bend the small red hearts along the axis of symmetry.
Carefully glue the red hearts together to form a kind of “accordion” and glue it into the open large white heart. Thus, when the valentine is opened, one large white heart comes out and there are small red ones inside.
You can write a wish in the card, and stick a photo on the title page or draw something themed, you can also decorate it with sparkles and ribbons.
Making voluminous valentines at home
As for such large and seemingly voluminous figurines for this holiday, I suggest first taking the easiest route and making a heart outline out of cardboard, and then using woolen threads, you can take different colors, or you can take a single color. Tie, that is, wrap, as shown in this photo.
In the first version, we made flowers and glued them to the workpiece, you can also do it in this case.
You can also easily and quickly cut out this ready-made pattern, and then glue the sides and the box together.
And then decorate it with all kinds of decorations, such as scrapbooking kits. I found a similar option in this video, I’m sharing it with you:
While I was writing this note, one idea came to my mind, and it came to me for a reason, my eldest son was sitting and putting together a mosaic of puzzles, so that’s what I came up with. How do you like what you saw?
Candle with heart
There is a candle in every home, and to give your home interior more warmth and romance, you can make your own candle in a glass holder with a small heart inside.
This candle can be presented as a small gift, or you can make several pieces, then they will be enough for a romantic dinner.
You need to prepare:
- wax for making candles;
- red candle paint;
- aromatic oils optional;
- wick;
- square glass candlestick, transparent;
- a small heart-shaped cookie cutter;
- a small baking tray or baking dish of any shape;
- vegetable oil;
- glue gun with a rod;
- burner.
Grease the baking dish with a small amount of oil to make it easier to remove the wax later.
Note!
- Macrame: diagrams, interesting projects and detailed descriptions of making crafts
- Crochet amigurumi - examples of how to make a beautiful toy with your own hands (75 photos)
- Coffee topiary: step-by-step master class on how to make a small decorative tree from coffee beans
Heat the wax in a water bath or double boiler. Add aromatic oils and dye to the wax. Pour into a greased mold so that the thickness of the wax is approximately 1-1.5 cm and allow to cool.
When the wax hardens and becomes similar in consistency to thick dough, carefully squeeze out 4 hearts with a heart-shaped mold. Leave the resulting hearts until completely frozen or, to speed up the process, place them in the refrigerator.
Use a burner to heat one wall of the candlestick, place the heart inside and heat it with the burner until it sticks. In the same way, glue the remaining 3 hearts to the free sides of the candlestick.
Using a glue gun, glue the wicks to the center of the candlestick to the bottom. Heat the wax in a water bath to a temperature of 70 degrees and carefully pour it into the candlestick. After the wax has cooled, trim off the excess piece of wick.
In this simple way you can make very beautiful and stylish candles in candlesticks.
Garland of hearts
There are many options and materials for making a garland of hearts. For the base you can use: paper, thread, wire, felt, foil...
One interesting way to create a garland on this theme is to use wire and strong threads (for knitting) for the base.
It is necessary to form hearts of the desired size from strong wire. Wrap each heart generously with thread and create a web in random order.
Make a small pendant from a thread on top of each heart. Thread all the hearts made onto a long strong thread in any order.
This garland can be used to decorate walls, windows, stairs...
Gift meaning
Sweets are always considered a good present.
Many people think that it is much easier to choose a ready-made gift and buy it in a store, but this is not entirely correct. It’s much more pleasant to receive a luxurious heart made of candies, knowing that strength and soul were invested in this creation. In fact, it’s very easy to do it yourself, and it doesn’t take much time for the creative process.
The most important advantage of this technique is its versatility, since, knowing the main and basic elements, you can use them in different directions. You can always make a gift yourself for any holiday. This will not only save money and time searching for a gift, but will also give you confidence that your efforts will definitely bear fruit.
Heart pillow
To make a heart-shaped pillow with your own hands you will need:
- Whatman paper and pencil;
- durable fabric;
- sewing pins;
- strong threads, needle, scissors;
- pillow filling (silicone, padding polyester, down...).
On whatman paper, draw a neat heart of the desired size and cut it out. Fold the fabric in half, right side down. Attach a mock-up of a heart from whatman paper to the fabric with sewing pins and trace with a pencil, taking into account the distance to the seam, approximately cm
Using a meter, measure the distance of the heart from the lower end to the upper line of the cavity, add 3 cm to the resulting number and cut 2 strips from the fabric so that each is equal to the resulting number, and approximately 10-13 cm wide.
Place the piece with the right side to the outer part of the heart and pin it along the perimeter; there should be about 2 cm left in the recess of the heart for an allowance. Sew on the strip.
Sew the second strip according to the principle of the first and sew them together, not forgetting to leave a small hole for turning and stuffing the pillow. Turn the resulting workpiece inside out, fill it with filler, and sew it up.
Such a pillow can be decorated with an inscription made of acrylic paint and embroidered with threads; you can sew eyes, a nose, or a smile onto your heart.
Quilling technique
What else can you make a heart out of? An original and very simple quilling technique comes to the rescue - these are twisted thin strips of paper. The product turns out voluminous and openwork.
Prepare the following tools:
- Quilling paper of pink or other warm color;
- White cardboard;
- Scissors with teeth;
- Stationery knife;
- Toothpick;
- Glue and brush.
Cut out a large heart from cardboard using serrated scissors.
- Having retreated a couple of centimeters from the edge, we cut out another smaller heart from this heart. We use a stationery knife.
- Now you have a base for the craft 1.5-2 cm wide.
- Use a toothpick to twist the spirals and place them inside the base. We fasten them together using a brush and PVA.
- If gaps remain, they can be filled with small spirals. Blot off excess glue with a napkin.
The finished heart needs to be dried. To do this, place it on a file or oilcloth. After this, you can start decorating the craft: paint the outline a different color or even separate the openwork heart from it. Tie a pretty ribbon so you can hang the heart somewhere. Give free rein to your imagination.
