Valentine’s Butterfly

You need:

• Roll of paper 
• Card stock f.ex. A4
• Decorations like stickers, diamonds, glitter etc.
• Glue 
• Paint
• Eyes

You can either use coloured card stock to make a roll of paper or you can paint a toilet paper roll. Make a face on the roll either by drawing or using materials you have at home like googly eyes. 

Fold an A4 piece of cardstock from the middle and cut it into a heart, so that the two halves of the hearts meet in the middle. Open the cardstock for ‘wings’, glue the paper roll to the middle of the wings and decorate to your liking! 

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A Lovely Ladybird

This can also be great scissor practise and fine motor practise for your child. 

You need: 

• Card stock, black and red (or your own choice)
• Two paper fasteners
• Decorations of your choice (I used stickers to practise fine motor skills too)

Trace both of your child’s hands on the red card stock and cut them loose. Children often love tracing their own handprints so do take some spare paper too so that you can make extra ones 😉 Depending on your child’s age, let them practise their scissor skills and explore their hand prints independently.

Cut a body for the ladybird from black card stock. You can easily make the body by tracing two round objects you have easily available. The bigger one, like a tape roll should be approximately the size of your child’s hand, then it fits nicely when you attach the wings. 

Decorate the body and the wings to your liking! 

Paper fasteners can be very sharp so be careful when attaching them. Punch a hole to the top of each wing and to the corresponding place on the body, for example with a large needle, then push the paper fastener through. Now you have moving wings! 

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Heart Hat from a Paper Plate 

This is a fun hat for a dress up party or just for the fun of it! 

You need:

• A Large Paper Plate
• Scissor
• Decorations of your choice, f.ex. Paint, diamonds, pom poms, whatever you have available

Fold the paper plate in half and cut the middle into a heart as pictured. Then decorate to your liking! 

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Marbling with Shaving Foam and Paints

You need: 

• Shaving Foam
• Poster Paints
• Paper
• Two trays
• Sticks, f.ex. Bbq stick or lolly stick
• A long ruler or other flat stick

Cover the first tray with shaving foam equivalent to the size of your paper. Drop small blobs of paint around the shaving foam and swirl it in with the sticks. When you’re satisfied with the colours, then gently press a paper to the foam. Press firmly so that each part touches the shaving foam, but not too hard so that the foam won’t spill all over. 

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Place the paper to the other tray and wipe the excess shaving foam off with the ruler. 

Let the paper dry. 

Once dry, cut some shapes like hearts from your marbled paper and use it for your Valentine’s cards!