Preschool Valentine Crafts, Easter Crafts, Valentine Wallpapers

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Valentine Day is a craft gold mine. You could make anything, decorate it in pink and red hearts - and maybe some paper doilies - and you've got instant love-gushing goodies. The extra bonus is that imperfection is just fine. No one cares about showing glue or crooked edges, which makes it ideal for playing with techniques that might be new to your kids.

Sponge Painting Hearts

This very simple idea can be used in heaps of different ways to make pretty containers, cards, tags, gift wrap and other embellishments for valentine's day. When you're finished you can wash your sponge stamp out with water and keep hold of it for next year! We used our hearts to decorate coffee can containers.

You will need

• dish sponge
• marker
• scissors
• white acrylic paint, red, pink
• coffee can or paper

Directions

Cut the kitchen sponge into the shape of a heart. Pour paint onto a tray.
Let the children dip the sponge into the paint and then paint the coffee can. (or press onto the paper if you choose to make a card instead).
We used three colors, white base and red and pink hearts
The sponge gives a nice design on the can or any surface you choose.

My kids always enjoy sponge painting. It’s a break from the traditional painting project and still enjoyable.

*Although this project isn’t too messy you may still want to use paint shirts. Old men’s button down shirts work great. Just put them on backwards and button the top button. I also cut the sleeves off half way so they’re less bulky.

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