Valentine’s day crafts for kids: Make shiny hand print cards

What we have today is an easy Valentine’s day craft for kids that is actually a simple homemade card. Have you seen  our  Salt Glitter hand print Christmas cards?

They are so easy to make and turn out very pretty. If you are making quite a few Valentine’s day cards it is more exciting for the kids to make cards with different techniques, as opposed to making many similar looking cards.

Yesterday we made Blow Painting Valentine’s  day cards. Today we have shining hand print  hearts Valentine’s day cards for kids.

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• • Salt
  • Glitter
  • Sequins
  • Paint
  •  Cardstock Paper

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We made a cool salt glitter tray with a heavy rose of pink glitter. In a regular tray Big A  added salt, glitter and many small sequins. I usually re purpose this and use it as a shiny writing surface!

I started off with giving the girls a paper plate with 3 of their favorite colors – of course, purple, pink and orange.

After Big A firmly pressed her hand on the paint, I helped spread the paint on her palm evenly and she made 2 hand prints ( one for each hand) across each other in a V-shape forming the heart.

Immediately ( this part is important) we flipped the card on the salt tray and pressed it gently on the surface. This makes the glitter and salt adhere to the paint. Once the paint begins to dry on the card, it wont pick up the glitter as effectively.

[ Note: Reason for adding the salt is that the glitter and sequins will show and shine better with a white base and will adhered better]

Tada! That’s our simple shiny home made Valentine’s day card.

Up close and personal

This homemade Valentine’s day card is so easy that even toddlers and baby can make them. Family members would love a cute hand print card from the baby/toddler! Once the cardmaking session is over, we used the paint plate as a writing surface for about 10 minutes before the paint dried out completely.

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