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Wrapped Hearts

Jan 16, 20145,049 views
Crafts
Ages3–8 yrs
Prep10 min
Activity30 min
Leveleasy
MessLow
Works for1:1 · Small group · Class

Twist strips of aluminum foil into hearts, then wrap them with sparkly pipe cleaners, Valentine ribbon or yarn for a fine-motor workout. Tape the finished kid-made hearts to the wall as Valentine's Day decor.

⚠️ Safety first

  • Pipe cleaners have wire ends that can poke. Tuck or twist the ends in, and supervise younger children.
  • An adult handles the scissors when cutting foil strips and ribbon.
  • Supervise children who still mouth small craft items.

Before the kids arrive

  • Set out the wrapping supplies (pipe cleaners, ribbons, yarn) in a tray so kids can choose.
  • For a large group, consider twisting the foil hearts ahead of time.

Steps

  1. Cut strips of aluminum foil.

  2. Twist each foil strip into a rope and shape it into a heart. Make hearts of different sizes.

  3. Choose a wrapping supply: sparkly pipe cleaners, ribbon or yarn.

  4. Wrap pipe cleaners carefully around the foil heart, mixing colors as you go.

  5. Adult: for ribbon, tape one end of the ribbon to the foil heart.

  6. Wrap the ribbon around and around the heart until it is covered.

  7. Try wrapping more hearts with yarn or a different ribbon.

  8. Tape the finished hearts to the wall to display them.

Tips

  • I started her off by taping one end of the ribbon to the foil heart and had her continue the rest. It held the ribbon in place and avoided frustration!from the author
  • My 5 year old really got into creating sparkly hearts from foil, and with my help we made plenty of hearts.from the author
  • Set out many craft supplies and let the child choose how to decorate or wrap each heart.from the author
  • Well, everything has got to be multi-colored, right? Mix pipe cleaner colors on one heart.from the author

Make it your own

  • Wrap the hearts with yarn or colorful shoe laces.
  • Let younger children paint or color their foil hearts with markers instead of wrapping.
  • Use a couple of different types of ribbon for a set of matching wall hearts.

The story behind it

By TurkeyMom · January 2014
Valentine's Day Crafts for Kids : Wrapped Hearts
Make these simple wrapped hearts and decorate your wall with kid-made hearts. Around Valentine's Day the kids and I love to fill our home with their beautiful crafts and art.
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Wrapped Hearts: the original post

Valentine’s day crafts for kids : Wrapped Hearts Make these simple wrapped hearts and decorate your wall with these kid-made hearts. Around Valentine’s Day the kids and I love to fill our home with all their beautiful Valentine’s day crafts and the Valentine Art work they have done. We started this year’s hearts fun with yesterday’s Hearts Stencils Art. We also have saved all our previous Valentine’s day crafts and plenty of art. Today we are sharing a simple Valentine craft that is a great fine motor work out as well Materials

We cut strips of aluminum foil and twisted them to make hearts of different sizes. My 5 year old really got into this process of creating beautiful sparkly hearts from foil and with my help we were able to make plenty of hearts. I set out many craft supplies for her to choose from to decorate or wrap her hearts. You can even set out paint or markers for younger children who would simply love to color their hearts.

materials for foil hearts She chose her sparkly pipe cleaners first and went about wrapping them carefully.

valentinesday crafts with hearts Well, everything has got to be multi-colored right?

pipe cleaners wrapped hearts for valentines

The soft ribbons were up next. When she chose the ribbon, I started her off by taping one end of the ribbon to the foil hearts and having her continue the rest. It held one end of the ribbon in place to avoid frustration!

fine motor fun with hearts

We continued with couple of different types of ribbons and ended up with these beauties.

valentines day crafts for kids with hearts

We displayed them on our wall by simply taping them.

Crafts for Valentines day

You can also try wrapping them with yarn or colorful shoe laces.

wrapping hearts

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What readers say

💬 1 comments

🎉 Worked for us

A fun activity and decoration

A reader liked that the wrapped hearts work both as a fun kids' activity and as Valentine's decoration afterwards.

“What a fun activity and great decoration.”
jaime@FSPDT, Jan 2014

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  1. jaime@FSPDT · Jan 2014

    These are so cute! What a fun activity and great decoration.

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