Bookmark this pretty Valentine flowers craft for preschoolers fine motor and creative play. This activity uses interesting shapes and colors to add fine motor and creative fun to your Valentine theme.
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Valentine crafts inspire lots of creativity, with large and small heart shapes, red and pink papers, and lots of frilly doilies.
Kids can design and create these paper flowers with everyday craft supplies. The heart shaped cutouts prompt hands-on fine motor play, with lots of room for kids own creativity. Look for a couple results kids made at the end of the post.
Preschoolers come up with the most creative ideas at craft time. When you provide interesting materials in a variety of colors and textures, kids will be inspired to get hands-on and creative.
This is a fun activity to add to a Valentine theme. I included a few circle time prompts along with the craft, to extend your fun and learning.
Valentine Flower Craft
Learning about flowers will help boost kids creativity. Before you start the craft, here are a few ways to explore flowers with your early learners.
- Read books about flowers.
- Explore the composition of a flower hands-on.
- Plant seeds to grow flowers at home or in the classroom.
Circle time ideas
- Discuss the parts of a flower using actual flowers and/or illustrations.
- Make felt cutouts of the parts of a flower to assemble on the felt board.
- Music & Movement (tune: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush)
This is the way we plant the seeds (“scatter” seeds on the ground)
This is the way the rain will fall (wiggle fingers like raindrops falling)
This is the way the sun will shine (raise arms overhead, fingers meet to form a circle)
This is the way the flower grows (slowly rise to standing with arms stretched overhead)
Materials list for Valentine flower craft
- paper cupcake liners (baking cups)
- scissors
- glue
You can pre-cut red and green hearts for young children, although they should always be encouraged to cut out these or any other shapes for their flowers.
Instructions for Valentine flowers
1. Make snips around the paper liners with scissors to form petals.
2. Glue a paper liner to construction paper for the center of the flower.
3. Glue heart shaped petals to the paper liner.
4. Cut a stem from construction paper. Glue to the paper.
5. Optional: Cut out “grass” with pinking shears. Add heart shaped cut-outs for grass and plants.
Here are two very different versions of the Valentine flower craft.
The one on the left was glued to a craft stick so the child could carry it.
On the right, the child glued the flower to the paper then proceeded to make a design with “MOM” printed on the picture.
This is an example of how children create differently with the materials you provide!
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