A flower garden craft is easy for kids to make for Valentine’s Day. Why wait for spring when you can plant your pretend Valentine garden today!
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This is a fun activity to add to your Valentine theme for preschool or kindergarten. Kids can create a Valentine’s Day garden as a special decoration for the home or the classroom.
Why wait for spring to plant flowers? Make a Valentine garden craft today to enjoy pretty flowers!
This craft is easy to set up with paper cutouts, craft sticks, and recycled material.
This activity supports early learning skills: fine motor skills (cutting and gluing), math (counting and sorting colors and shapes) and creative (designing the garden).
How to make a Valentine garden craft
A piece of chair foam is used in this activity but you can substitute the chair foam with solid foam packaging or even modeling clay.
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 for the base.
The foam base will hold the craft stick flowers. This one measures approximately 2 in. (5 cm) by 7 in. (18 cm)
- 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, since we only had neon green on hand.
- Mixing paint colors is another learning opportunity for kids!
3. Cut out leaves and petals.
- Cut green and pink and red hearts 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 sticks.
- Use green craft sticks if available. Otherwise paint the sticks, or color them with green markers or crayons.
5. Assemble the flowers.
- Glue the petals and leaves to the craft stick 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.
Craft stick flowers Valentine craft
Your Valentine garden is ready to display at home or in the classroom. In the classroom, assemble the individual gardens together in one large garden.
You don’t have to wait for spring to enjoy pretty flowers!
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