Arts and Crafts

Fancy Valentine Hearts

Valentine HeartsWhat you need:

Blue Check Fabric
Blue Check Paper
Blue Check Scissors
Blue Check Box board/cardboard
Blue Check Glue
Blue Check Kleenex/tissue
Blue Check Pencil/Marker
Blue Check Beads, riboon, lace -optional

What you do:

1. Make two hearts that are at least 6 inches across. Click here for instructions on how to make a heart.
 
2. Trace one of these hearts unto boxboard or cardboard. Cut around your tracing.
 
3. Make a second heart that is 1 inch bigger than your first two hearts. Place them (one large and one small) on your fabric and trace. Cut the material along your tracing lines.
 

 
4. On the boxboard heart glue along the two humps and down one side of the heart.
 

 
5. Centre this heart on the wrong side of the larger fabric heart.
 
6. Carefully take the excess fabric and press it onto the glue. Let dry (approximately 1/2 hour.)
 

 
7. While the heart is drying, make the stuffing for your heart by tearing Kleenex into strips and crumpling them gently.
 
8. When the heart is dry, gently push the shredded Kleenex between the boxboard and fabric heart. Add enough stuffing so your heart looks puffy.
 
9. Glue the fabric along the rest of the heart to seal opening. Let dry.
 
10. To decorate your heart use your imagination. Beads, artificial flowers, ribbon and lace all add something special to this craft.
 
11. To finish, glue your last fabric heart onto the back of the boxboard.
 
12. Pin a little note on the puffy heart for your valentine.

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