Simple Valentine's Craft - Heart Sun Catchers

These simple heart sun catchers are a great Valentine's Day craft for toddlers. They are really easy to make and you only need a few bits and pieces from the craft box to make some lovely heart themed decor to decorate your home for Valentine's Day.

All you need is some thin coloured card, some clear contact paper (sticky backed plastic) and some collage materials, we used torn up red and pink tissue paper.

I used my Cricut Mini to cut out the heart shapes. There is a basic heart shape supplied in the designs that come with the machine, and when I logged in this time I had a free trial of the Love Struck 2010 cartridge which is where the slanted heart shapes came from (although you could easily recreate this shape by manipulating the free basic heart shape). Of course it is also easy enough to cut out a heart frame using scissors.

Once you have a selection of heart frames cut out, stick them down on the clear contact paper and cut around the edges. Then give your child the collage materials and let them stick them to the sticky paper. Even younger toddlers will easily be able to do this, and they will have a real sense of accomplishment from being able to create something pretty so easily. You might like to add a second layer of the sticky backed plastic on the reverse side, to keep it all nice and neat.

Then stick them up in the window so that the light can shine through!

You can find more Valentine's Day crafts for toddlers here - Valentine's Crafts for toddlers