We absolutely
love making crafts for Valentine’s Day, it’s such a fun time to cover
everything in hearts and give people our lovely handmade crafts to show our
love for them. This year my little boy
is 5 and really getting into making things himself from start to finish, so
these heart stampers are 100 % made by him, which I absolutely love!
What you’ll need to make DIY Heart Stamps:
- · Foam sheets
- · Pencil
- · Scissors
- · Bottle caps or lids
- · Glue
- · Card
- · Stamp pads
The first
step was for Ethan to draw some hearts on the foam sheets in pencil. The only instruction that I gave him was to
draw some hearts that were not too big, so that they could fit onto the back of
the milk bottle caps that we were using. Ethan drew the hearts, and on some he even
drew designs on the hearts which we were hoping would come out when he stamped
them.
Next Ethan
cut out the hearts using his scissors.
Ethan’s scissor skills are getting better, but he did need a little bit
of help cutting out the smaller hearts.
For younger children you could do this step for them.
Then Ethan
put glue on the back of each foam heart cut out and stuck it to the back of a
bottle cap. We then had to wait for the
glue to dry before we could go onto the next step (this was the hardest part as
Ethan was very keen to get stamping!)
Finally we
were ready to make our cards, so we folded a few pieces of pink card in half
and got to stamping.
Ethan pressed the
heart stampers onto the stamp pads, being careful not to get too much ink on
the actual bottle caps, and then stamped the hearts onto his cards.
They turned
out really lovely and are so personal as they were completely made by
Ethan.
They would also be great for
making small cards for friends at school or gift tags for presents.
A few of our other favourite Valentine’s Day activities are:
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