Valentine's Day Crafts for kids

Pom Pom Valentine Monsters

Supplies:

• yarn
• mouthwash paper cup
• cardboard
• scissors
• googly eyes (regular ones or the ones with eyelashes)
• foam stickers or dollar tree jewel stickers
• chenille stems
• glue gun or tacky glue

Instructions: 

• Wrap your yarn around the cardboard piece (long-ways) about 150 to 200 times.  
• After you have wrapped it the desired amount of times, one one side of the cardboard tie a know around the center of the yarn.  
• Flip the cardboard over and cut through the center of the yarn.  
• Take your mouthwash cup and flip it upside down and hot glue your pom pop to the dop where you tied the knot.  
• Make another pom pom by wrapping the yard (short-ways) around the cardboard about 20 to 30 times and repeat the process for tying the knot and cutting yarn.  (this is your hair for the pom pom)
•  Hot glue the hair on the top of the cup.

Now the fun begins 

• Add your googly eyes.
• Make some pipe cleaner antennas and hot glue them to the top of the head under some yarn hair and form them the way you want them to look with your fingers.
• Add your stickers to the top of the antennas.

My little monster enjoyed taking a break from her classwork to make a cute little monster to sit on her desk for Valentines Day.  

Finger Painting Art

What you'll need:

• paint
• paper
• paint brush

Kids love to get messy!  Here they just need to either use their paintbrush to make their tree, or dip their finger in the paint and smear it to make a tree.  Now just dip the fingers into the paint and make a leaves to form a heart.  Super cute! 

Heart Fireworks

What you’ll need:

• construction paper, cardstock, or canvas
• paints
• paintbrush, foam brush
• pencil

Instructions:

• Fold a piece of paper in half and draw half a heart.  Cut it out while folded and it open up to a full heart.  You'll need different size hearts.
• Place the hearts in different sections of your paper or canvas and trace the hearts.
• Paint the hearts with a foam brush.
• Now you will start painting around the heart in layers.  Choose your 1st color and paint around the heart.  You'll need to make it look like streaks.  So just keep swishing the brush from the traced outline of the heart then go outward with your paint brush.  
• Repeat the process with different colors and keep going until you reach the end of the paper/canvas.