How to make Heart shaped paper chains

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Materials

• Paper – we used fab two sided wrapping paper
• Paper cutter
• stapler

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Watch the Video: How to make Heart shaped paper chains

I am a fan of crafts that we can sit together as a family and do and this reminds me of sitting making lick and stick paper chains with my family as a child at Christmas.  Also this is a mess free craft, which is always good!

How to make paper chains that are heart shaped:

I pinned this a while ago and have been waiting for valentines to come to do it with the kids.  It is amazing how just two things can make this heart shaped paper chain garland and it looks amazing, it kind of blew the boys’ mind.

First of the boys cut strips of paper (we cut to 7 inch by 1 inch)

Then fold the paper in half.  We wanted the hearts on the outside , so we had to make sure that they were on the inside (all will become clear in the end).

Place two pieces of the folded paper together and staple.

Pull down the loose ends and then add another folded piece of paper and staple.  Just make sure you don’t make your chains too long or you lose the lovely heart shapes.

This looks just as wonderful with plain or painted paper, it just so happens that we had some fab double-sided wrapping paper.  Just take a look at this fab interpretation from Art Bar.

Even better I love the fact that we have my mum’s sugar tongs and bowl and it makes it such an experience.

How to make heart shaped sugar cubes

Materials

1. granulated sugar
2. water
3. Heart shaped silicon mould or small cookie cutter.

How too:

It is really simple to make heart shaped sugar cubes, in fact almost too simple!

Fill the mould with sugar and then transfer it to a bowl (this way you only have the right amount of sugar)

Add a teaspoon of water at a time to the granulated sugar and mix.  You want the sugar to be damp enough to come together, but not too wet as it starts to melt.

You can make your cubes colourful by adding a tiny amount of food colour to your water at this stage.

Place the sugar back into the mould before pressing down with your fingers

Allow to dry.  You can speed up drying time by popping in an oven at its lowest setting for 10 minutes before allowing it to dry overnight.

We wanted to have a go at painting hearts on to our sugar (which is a great fine motor activity) at this stage, so we  added some red food colouring to a small amount of water before painting on a heart with a clean paintbrush.