It’s almost Valentine’s Day! Are you looking for a project to keep the kids busy or to add to a Valentine’s Day party? This project is easy to do and looks amazing when you are done. You don’t need many supplies and it doesn’t take long to make it. You’ll need 2 half size pieces of construction paper, a pencil, scissors and a couple of markers or an ink pad. WASHABLE markers or ink is the best! 😉 (I’m speaking from experience and from my very colorful finger!)
Keep one piece of your paper for making the project on and the second piece you will need to cut in half.
Take one of the half pieces and fold it in half.
Draw half of a heart on the fold.
Cut out the half heart shape using your scissors.
Put the heart shape aside for another time. Open the heart stencil and lay it on top of the other sheet of paper.
Using your marker or ink pad, put ink on one of your index fingers.
Press your finger onto the paper inside the heart stencil area. (The cut out heart area.) Continue doing this step until you have either made a complete outline of your heart or you have colored the entire heart in with your fingerprints.
When you have finished the number of fingerprints you want to make, remove the stencil.
Isn’t that pretty? You can leave it this way or fill in the rest of the cut out heart area. Actually the stencil looks pretty cool too!
Here is one with the inside of the heart filled in with more fingerprints.
You can use your heart design just to hang it up and make your house look pretty or you can make it into a card to give to someone special on Valentine’s Day. Hope you had fun making your fingerprint heart! 🙂
The Kids Niche 