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Valentine’s day themed art can be as simple as printmaking with paper hearts. With just a few materials that are readily found around your home or classroom, your children can create beautiful heart-shaped prints…
We began this process by asking our little printmakers to fill their palettes with paint. For our palettes, we used small paper plates…
We set out a wide array of colors for the children to choose from. Paintbrushes were used to help spread the paint around their paper plate. Some children chose to start with just one color, while other children used many…
Mrs. Courtney had cut out enough paper hearts for the entire class. Having your children cut out their own hearts is also another part of this process that could also be explored. Once the palettes were filled, the children then pressed their paper hearts into the paint…
After pressing their paper hearts into the paint, the children then pressed the hearts onto a larger sheet of paper, paint side down…
When the children lifted their hearts off the paper, a beautiful heart-shaped print was left…
For many of our students, the process became an interesting and beautiful way to explore the art of color mixing…
While some of our students chose to use the standard pink, red, and purple colors for their hearts, others chose more non-traditional colors. Regardless of the colors chosen, each child’s paper heart print became a magnificent piece of art…
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Links to grow on…
Valentine Art for Toddlers: Scratch, Roll, Resist by Hands on as We Grow
Symmetry art: Valentine love hearts by Nurture Store
Making tissue paper heart collages in preschool by Teach Preschool
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This looks like fun! We may have to try this project this weekend when my girls start asking for a craft project to do.