Valentines Heart Box
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Parental supervision is recommended
Show your love with this heart-shaped Valentine's Box. Put a few pieces of chocolate treasure inside as a surprise!
What you'll need:
- Small heart box
- Paint (we used tempera paint)
- Paintbrushes
- Newspaper to protect the table
- Water and paper towels for cleanup
Optional Materials:
- Glue
- Sponge
- Fabric, ribbons, ribbon roses, small fake flowers, eyelet or lace
- Catalogs to cut pictures from, like flower catalogs
- Valentines stickers
- Small paper doilies
How to make it:
This is a very open ended project, first you need to decide how you want to decorate your box.
If you want to paint hearts and flowers on the box, I suggest giving the outside of the box a coat of white or light pink paint. Let the paint dry, then paint your designs over it.
You can also sponge paint on the box - give the box a coat of a base color, and allow that to dry. In the meantime, cut a piece of sponge into a shape, like a small heart. When the paint is dry, dip the sponge into another color of paint and stamp it on the box. The design will have some small holes in it, sort of lacy. You can probably stamp your design once more before dipping the sponge into the paint again. Experiment on a piece of scrap paper before stamping on your box.
Young children might be happy just painting the box one color, or painting the box one color and then decorating it with stickers once the paint is dry.
Instead of painting the box, you can cover it with a collage of pretty cutouts, like flowers - or even cut the flower cutouts into heart shapes before pasting them to the box.
Don't forget that you can also decorate the inside of the box, too.
Tips:
One family found small wooden and cardboard heart shaped boxes at our local craft store for under $1 each. You could also recycle small valentines boxes from last year.
