A flower garden craft is easy for kids to make to celebrate Valentine's Day.  The activity is simple to set up with everyday materials and a recyclable. Why wait for spring when you can plant your pretend Valentine garden today!

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Why wait for spring to plant flowers? Make a Valentine garden craft today and enjoy the pretty flowers!

A Valentine garden craft is a fun activity to add to your Valentine theme for preschool or kindergarten. Kids can create a Valentine's Day garden to celebrate the special event. 

This activity supports early learning skills:  fine motor skills (cutting and gluing heart shapes), math (counting and sorting hearts) and creative (designing the garden).

How to make a Valentine garden craft

This eco-friendly paper craft is easy to set up with craft sticks and recycled chair foam. You can substitute solid foam packaging or even modeling clay for the base if chair foam is not available.

The scalloped edge on the flowers adds a dainty touch to the flower petals!

Supplies for a Valentine garden craft

• chair foam
• construction paper
• paint
• edger scissors 
• glue
• craft sticks

Instructions for Valentine craft

1. Cut a piece of chair foam to the desired size for the base.

• Use pinking shears if preferred to make a crinkled edge.

2.  Paint the foam green.

We combined blue and yellow paint to make a shade of green. We only had a neon green on hand and it didn't seem to suit this craft.

• Mixing paint colors is another learning opportunity for kids!

3. Cut out green and red heart shapes .

• Cut out the petals and leaves from construction paper. Use edger scissors if available to make a decorative edge.
  
  
• Cut the green hearts in half length-wise to make leaves.

4. Paint craft stick stems.

• Color them with green markers or crayons if preferred.

5. Glue the petals and leaves to the stems.

6. Make slits in the foam with a craft knife (grownups can do this).

• You could make snips in the foam with scissors (kids can try this).

7. Insert the flower stems.

Your Valentine garden is ready to display at home or in the classroom.

Now you don't have to wait for spring to enjoy pretty flowers!

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