# Stencil Heart Valentine Cards
> Turn leftover painted heart cut-outs and heart stencils into homemade Valentine's Day cards by gluing them onto folded card stock. It's a super simple activity with gorgeous results.
- URL: https://www.funlittles.com/homemade-cards-for-valentines-day/
- Ages: 3–8 yrs · Difficulty: easy · Mess: low
- Time: prep 5 min, activity 20 min
- Works for: one-on-one, small group, whole class
- Skills: fine-motor, creativity, shapes

## Materials (one batch)
- Painted heart cut-outs (from the Stencils Hearts Valentine art)
- 1 piece Painted heart stencils (the heart negatives)
- 1 sheet Card stock paper, folded in half
- 1 piece White school glue

## Safety
- Supervise glue use with younger children. Glue is not for mouthing.

## Before you start
- Make the Stencils Hearts Valentine art first (see TurkeyMom's original Valentine art post at /valentine-art-heart-stencils/). Keep both the heart cut-outs and the stencils.
- Fold sheets of card stock in half to make card bases.

## Steps
1. Gather the heart stencils and painted heart cut-outs from your stencil heart art.
2. Set out glue, folded card stock, and the stencils and cut-outs.
3. Choose your favorite hearts.
4. Glue the hearts onto the front of a folded card stock card.
5. Try putting hearts together to make shapes, like two purple hearts for a butterfly.
6. For a second card, glue a heart stencil (the negative) onto another folded card stock.
7. Let the glue dry, then give your cards to someone you love.

## Tips
- This one is super short since the activity is so simple, but the results are gorgeous.
- The folded card stock was a perfect base for this simple card.
- Don't throw away the stencils! The heart negatives make a second card. All she did was glue the stencil to a folded card stock paper.
- Let kids see shapes in the hearts. My 5-year-old immediately created a butterfly using 2 purple hearts. That one sees an animal in everything!

## The original post by TurkeyMom (2014)

With Valentine's day around the corner we realized we hadn't made any cards this year. Last year we had two homemade Valentine's day cards the kids had made - a [**shiny handprint homemeade Valentine's day card**](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-cards-for-kids/) and a **[straw blown homemade card](https://www.funlittles.com/valentines-day-cards/).** This year however we extended our [**Stencils Hearts Valentine art**](https://www.funlittles.com/valentine-art-heart-stencils/) and made cards. Read our original [**Valentine art**](https://www.funlittles.com/valentine-art-heart-stencils/) post here. Alright people, this is going to be a super short one since the activity is so simple but the results are gorgeous. I gathered the heart stencils we made along with the bright heart cuts outs my 5 year had very eagerly created.



I set out glue, card stock paper and the stencils and cut outs for her to create homemade Valentine's day cards using a very simple Valentine art.



She proceeded to carefully choose her favorite hearts and immediately created a butterfly using 2 purple hearts. That one sees an animal in everything.single.thing.around her!



The folded card stock was a perfect base for this simple card.



She used the hearts negatives - the stencils to make another simple card. All she did was to glue the stencil to a folded card stock paper.



There you have one more cute hearts homemade cards for Valentine's day.



Thanks for reading



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