Valentine's Day Heart Tree

A perfect project for all of your little valentine’s. What child isn’t excited about working with foamies? Soft, safe, and colorful foamy hearts look like works of art swirling from winter’s branches. Set in a glass cylinder in a bed of crystal beads, it is a welcome cheery accent, and a wonderful way to display your child’s work.

Find this project and 14 other Valentine's Day blogger crafts in the Valentine's Day Crafts: Blogger Edition eBook.
 

Materials:

• Foamy sheets in purple, pink, red, and white
• 2 sizes plastic heart cookie cutters
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Assortment of pre-cut foamy hearts
• Hole punch
• Ribbon for hanging
• Cut branches
• Glass beads
• Glass cylinder

Instructions:

1. Cut branches and arrange in the glass cylinder filled with glass beads.

For hearts:

1. Trace cookie cuter template on foamy sheets. Cut out heart shapes and decorate.
   
   
    
2. Punch a hole in the top center of the heart. String ribbon through and tie to a branch.
   
   

Kid Crafts: Don’t forget the little party goers.  Keep them busy with a fun and easy to do recipe. 

Heart shaped sugar cookies with tie-dye icing:  Using store brought cookie dough, bake cookies according to instructions. Then, ice cookies in light pink frosting. Take a tube of red decorative frosting and put dots on top of pink. With a toothpick swirl the red dots to create a tie-dye effect.