Sticky Heart Collages

January 28, 2021
Keeps kids busy while strengthening fine-motor skills with this heart collage craft for kids! #heartcrafts #valentinesday #craftsforkids #suncatchersforkids #growingajeweledrose #craftsforvalentinesday
Keep kids busy while strengthening fine-motor skills with this fun & creative craft for kids!  These heart sun-catchers were a big hit with my girls and kept them occupied on a long day stuck inside.  We kept this craft set up all day, and Rosie and Jewel returned to their "sticky hearts" often.  Read on for the easy tutorial.
Keeps kids busy while strengthening fine-motor skills with this heart collage craft for kids! #heartcrafts #valentinesday #craftsforkids #suncatchersforkids #growingajeweledrose #craftsforvalentinesday
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Sticky Heart Craft for Kids

Materials
Method
  • Begin by tracing a heart on contact paper.  You can make hearts in varying sizes. 
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  • Cut the hearts out and tape them to a window with the sticky side of the contact paper facing out.
  • Once the hearts are taped up and the protective paper is removed you will have sticky hearts!
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  • Give kids tissue paper pieces, and they will delight in sticking the pieces to the hearts to make colorful sun catchers.
Keeps kids busy while strengthening fine-motor skills with this heart collage craft for kids! #heartcrafts #valentinesday #craftsforkids #suncatchersforkids #growingajeweledrose #craftsforvalentinesday


Keeps kids busy while strengthening fine-motor skills with this heart collage craft for kids! #heartcrafts #valentinesday #craftsforkids #suncatchersforkids #growingajeweledrose #craftsforvalentinesday

Keeps kids busy while strengthening fine-motor skills with this heart collage craft for kids! #heartcrafts #valentinesday #craftsforkids #suncatchersforkids #growingajeweledrose #craftsforvalentinesday
My girls loved this activity so much that we ended up making several sticky hearts. Once Rosie and Jewel were done we were left with beautiful sun-catchers that perfectly decorated our windows for Valentine's Day.
Keeps kids busy while strengthening fine-motor skills with this heart collage craft for kids! #heartcrafts #valentinesday #craftsforkids #suncatchersforkids #growingajeweledrose #craftsforvalentinesday

A Few Tips:  
  • You only need a few pieces of masking tape to hang these in the window.  
  • I outlined the first big heart collage the girls made with red tape just so that they could clearly see that it was a heart they were filling in.  The red tape is not needed but makes a cute addition.  
  • Contact paper can be found in the home improvement aisle of Walmart/Target as well as most school supply aisles.  It can also be found online here.  
  • For this activity we used regular tissue paper and cut it into pieces, but you can also buy pre-cut tissue paper squares if you prefer.
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Crystal Underwood is the writer and creator of Growing A Jeweled Rose. She has worked extensively with children and strongly believes in the importance of play at the core of early learning. She is passionate about the early years and believes that childhood should be a truly magical time in life. For all the best kids activities connect with Growing a Jeweled Rose below!