Easy Heart Craft – A Fun Technique with Geometric Shapes
This easy heart craft is a fun project for kids! The hot glue border guides little artists to stay in the lines to make geometric shapes!
Create Geometric Shapes with This Easy Heart Craft
If you are a young kid, creating geometric shapes inside a heart shape may not be the easiest task! That’s why creating a hot glue border is a genius way to help guide these budding artists to stay in the lines!
Kids will have fun filling in the shapes while utilizing the raised edges in between to keep colors separate and vibrant! This is a fun craft to do during Valentine’s Day or as a fun art project while learning about shapes!
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How to Make This Easy Heart Craft
Setting up this easy heart craft for your kiddo can be done in minutes! You’ll see how I outlined the shape of a heart using hot glue and randomly created shapes inside.
Hot glue dries super fast, so in no time, my daughter (aged 3) enjoyed painting inside the lines with her huge watercolor set!
How to Make This Easy Heart Craft
Setting up this easy heart craft for your kiddo can be done in minutes! You’ll see how I outlined the shape of a heart using hot glue and randomly created shapes inside.
Hot glue dries super fast, so in no time, my daughter (aged 3) enjoyed painting inside the lines with her huge watercolor set!
Tips for Making This Easy Heart Craft
Hot Glue. You’ll need a hot glue gun for this, so make sure you heat it up in advance!
Watercolor Paper. You’ll need some thick paper to create this art project! Hot glue will adhere to this kind of paper perfectly.
Heart Shape. One of the trickiest parts of creating this heart craft is the grown ups job of making the heart shape! If you find it is difficult to make a symmetrical heart freestyle, download and use our free printable images. All you need to do is trace the black line. Plus, this set comes with 4 different designs that can be used for this project or for simply just coloring!
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Materials
Step-by-Step Instructions
Step 1
Use a hot glue gun to make the shape of a heart.
Step 2
Inside the heart, make geometric shapes of your choice!
Step 3
Provide a watercolor set and paint brushes to decorate and paint!
Step 4
Cut the border around the heart, optional!
Step 1
Use a hot glue gun to make the shape of a heart.
Step 2
Inside the heart, make geometric shapes of your choice!
Step 3
Provide a watercolor set and paint brushes to decorate and paint!
Step 4
Cut the border around the heart, optional!
Turn This Into a Valentine Sensory Bin
After the hearts are made, keep the Valentine fun going with a simple sensory activity kids love.
Our Valentine Sensory Play Rice is a pink, red, and white colored rice mix made for scooping, pouring, and pretend play. Add it to this heart craft by filling a small bin and letting kids hunt for hearts, pour rice into heart-shaped cups, or build little Valentine scenes around their finished creations.
It turns this one craft into a longer, hands-on Valentine activity with almost no extra prep.
👉 Shop the Valentine Sensory Play Rice to complete your Valentine setup.
Turn This Into a Valentine Sensory Bin
After the hearts are made, keep the Valentine fun going with a simple sensory activity kids love.
Our Valentine Sensory Play Rice is a pink, red, and white colored rice mix made for scooping, pouring, and pretend play. Add it to this heart craft by filling a small bin and letting kids hunt for hearts, pour rice into heart-shaped cups, or build little Valentine scenes around their finished creations.
It turns this one craft into a longer, hands-on Valentine activity with almost no extra prep.
👉 Shop the Valentine Sensory Play Rice to complete your Valentine setup.
Valentine’s Day Themed Printable Activity Worksheets!
If you are looking for even more fun activities to do that have a Valentine’s Day theme, definitely check out our printable worksheets!
These Valentine’s Day activities are a fun way to play and learn! The set includes over 15 Valentine’s Day themed activities that strengthen early childhood education skills, including scissor skills, tracing, the alphabet, coloring, numbers, matching, writing, phonics, and so much more!
Valentine’s Day Themed Printable Activity Worksheets!
If you are looking for even more fun activities to do that have a Valentine’s Day theme, definitely check out our printable worksheets!
These Valentine’s Day activities are a fun way to play and learn! The set includes over 15 Valentine’s Day themed activities that strengthen early childhood education skills, including scissor skills, tracing, the alphabet, coloring, numbers, matching, writing, phonics, and so much more!
More Valentine Fun We Love
Looking for more Valentine crafts, sensory play, and kid-friendly ideas? These are some of our favorite Valentine activities we’ve done at home.
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