We make valentines with children

Valentine's Day can be safely called a family holiday, the Vedas it symbolizes not only love, but also strong married love. Let's add children to the fun of the holiday, because they adore being in the center of events and making their own contribution to preparing for gay family events. To make a valentine with your own hands with a baby is a very interesting and fascinating activity.

Materials for work

1. Two-sided colored paper
2. Color cardboard.
3. Scissors and glue.
4. Gouache or acrylic paints.
5. Accessories for decorating the finished product (braid, buttons, beads, beads, sequins, sequins, etc.)
6. Salty dough.
7. Water emulsion.
8. Awl.

Begin to create

Making a valentine-card

Teach your child to make the most simple and, at the same time, the most popular valentine - a card. It can be left with a traditional rectangular shape or cut out in the form of a heart. Dotted line mark the middle of a sheet of white, pink or red A4 cardboard. Let the child cut the cardboard by puncturing and fold future cards with a "little book". Help the baby gently combine the outer sides of the cardboard to make the valentine even.

Discuss with the little assistant in advance how and how to decorate your postcard. Then sketch the picture on the cardboard. Remind the child that the heart is an integral part of the valentine. Cut out several hearts from bright red paper, and the child can paste them on the postcard. If the baby already owns a pencil or a felt-tip pen, ask him to draw snowflakes and asterisks on the valentine. Decorate the card with ribbon ribbons, beads, pieces of lace and cloth, and then sprinkle it all with sequins.

And with the help of the technique of application, you can cook this "sweet" valentine

We make valentine-pendant

From early childhood, teach the child the ability to think uniquely. For example, tell him that a valentine can be considered not only a cardboard heart, but a pendant made by oneself.

Prepare a salted dough: combine equal parts of flour and salt, pour in water and stir to make a homogeneous mass. Then leave the dough in the fridge for 2 hours.

When the homemade mass for modeling is ready, form a heart from it. Teach the kid to make small details for decoration. Roll out a flat cake of medium thickness and cut out necessary parts for the pendant: circles, petals, sticks. Use any method that is convenient for you.

When the pendant is ready, make a hole in it slightly below the heart cavity. The work of your joint efforts with the child can be left on the air - in a day the pendant will harden. In order not to wait that long, place the product in the oven and bake at 50 ° C.

Hardened pendant treated with a water-based product, and then dye gouache or acrylic paints. Thread the braid in the hole and the decoration is ready!

We make valentine-owl

Take a closer look, this bird is made up of only hearts! Your child will certainly want to do the same.

1. Draw one medium-sized heart on a piece of green paper, one large - on a violet sheet and 3 small hearts on a yellow paper. Now the baby can cut them.
2. For the beak and paws, prepare the 3 smallest hearts from yellow paper. For the peephole, cut out 2 medium details of green color and a slightly larger size from purple paper.
3. The pupils of the bird can be made from buttons or beads.
4. Glue all the parts together.

There are a lot of ways to create valentines, which will surely appreciate your child

As you can see, crafts with a child for Valentine's Day are not only simple, but also very exciting. Let the children participate in the preparation for February 14 with you, and then the holiday will be a success!