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Super Fun and Colorful Toddler Valentine Craft for the Window

February 5, 2018 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: Get out the colorful tissue paper for this fun and easy toddler Valentine craft. These heart suncatchers bring color to your home or classroom when hung in the window. Free printable heart template included!

You know how it goes.

You are walking down the aisles in your local dollar store and you spot it.

You don’t know what you will do with it, but you just know it will be fun for something.

For me it was a package of clear plastic plates.

I know, right? How boring!

But not when you turn them into colorful heart suncatchers!

And this toddler valentine craft has transformed our classroom from the winter blahs to colorful fun. Just check out the last few photos to see!

Oh, and I’ve created a free heart template so you don’t even need to try to make your own. Scroll down this page to find it.

Super Fun and Colorful Toddler Valentine Craft for the Window

 

 

Super Fun and Colorful Toddler Valentine Craft for the Window

Watch the video here:

What you will need:

Clear plastic plates (I got 2 packs of 8 at the Dollar Tree, but you can get an idea here.)

Red yarn

White glue

Red or purple liquid watercolors

Red, purple, pink, white tissue paper squares

You can also add your choice of small shiny pieces, if desired.

 

Prepping this toddler valentine craft:

Use the free template (scroll down this page to find it) if desired.

Draw a heart on the plastic plate and cut it out. Make one for each child participating.

Use a hole punch to poke a hole at the top of the heart.

Thread a short piece of yarn through the hole and tie it.

Super Fun and Colorful Toddler Valentine Craft for the Window

Pour some glue into a shallow container and add a few drops of liquid watercolor.

Place on table with tissue paper squares and plastic heart.

Super Fun and Colorful Toddler Valentine Craft for the Window

Invitation to create:

Have your toddlers brush the colored glue onto the heart and then press the tissue paper on top.

Super Fun and Colorful Toddler Valentine Craft for the Window

We happened to have some small shiny pieces that we added as well.

Super Fun and Colorful Toddler Valentine Craft for the Window

Let them add as much as they desire, or until you can no longer see the plastic.

Since these are toddlers, chances are they won’t stick around long enough to cover the entire thing, but you never know!

Super Fun and Colorful Toddler Valentine Craft for the Window

Let thoroughly dry.

I used suction cup hooks to hang them in our classroom window.

Super Fun and Colorful Toddler Valentine Craft for the Window

They look so festive! Much needed with a winter with little color.

Super Fun and Colorful Toddler Valentine Craft for the Window

Some books to read with this activity:

Super Fun and Colorful Toddler Valentine Craft for the Window

Download the free heart template here:

Super Fun and Colorful Toddler Valentine Craft for the Window

 

More toddler Valentine Crafts!

Check out this popular collection that has lots of fun Valentine’s ideas that are perfect for our younger crowd:

valentine's crafts for toddlers

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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Comments

  1. Sue says

    February 5, 2018 at 1:24 pm

    Love this idea. Were the plates hard to cut? Did you have to smooth the edges so they were not sharp?

    • Sheryl Cooper says

      February 5, 2018 at 9:01 pm

      Hi Sue – No, they really weren’t hard to cut! I just made sure not to have any sharp corners. I rounded the point of the heart just a tiny bit. No smoothing needed.

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