Now if you are fancy and have double printed paper, super. If you don’t, you make want to reverse a few of your hearts so that the print is in the middle of the heart instead of on the outside. Here is an example:
9. Now link them together by making loops out of 1/2 inch wide paper that is about 5 inches long. Loop two hearts together to make a chain and repeat until your heart paper chain is as long as you’d like.
Using 12 inch long paper strips produced hearts that we about 3 1/2 inches wide. I used longer strips of paper to make few bigger hearts. The original paper length determines the size of the heart.
I stuck push pins in my walls (perk of living somewhere you plan to tear out soon) and just hung the hearts from the pins.
Happy crafting! I hope this brightens your Valentine’s Day and your mantel!
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Sweet! And very simple… thank you for the great tutorial!
Lotus
Looks gorgeous! Maybe I can do one today, it would look so nice tomorrow! :o)
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We did this for our Family Home Evening activity. I didn’t reverse some of them, but I wish I did- yours looks better.
LOVE IT!! Darling idea! We are so doing this.
Thanks Melissa for the tip. I only have 5 students in my first grade class so with your tips, they could surely do it. 4 of them are girls and they LOVE the crafting. The boy likes it, certainly doesn’t love it!
That is so cute Melissa! Do you think 6 year olds would be able to manage it? Seems a bit tricky for little hands.
Noreen-
I’ve been thinking about this! I think that if you were to fold the 12 inch paper in half, fold both little tabs on both ends, and then cut it into strips then they would be able to glue the tab to the center! It might be even better if you were to make a pencil line down the center so that they had something more visual to stick their tab to. The hearts may be a little off center, but that would make them even more homemade.
If you are a teacher and the only one helping 26 kids it might be harder…
I teach the kids who are 6 at my church’s primary, and I do think they could do it.
Thanks!
This is perfect!! So excited about making =)
Love it! thanks for sharing!
very sweet…xo
That is really cute! I love it and so will my kids! I am featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com. Grab my “featured” button.
That is SO cute! Jonas loves projects so he will have fun working on this project with me.
i love it! i might actually do this! (I’m not a decorator/crafter unless its for christmas)