Here is an idea for a fun and creative heart card holder so you can safely keep all of your special cards and notes tucked inside. Before you begin the project, collect all of the material that you will need and lay them out on your table. This way you can enjoy your project without jumping up and down to find one thing after another. Let's get started!
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Now that you have collected all of your materials on your table, it's time to begin. Fold one piece of your construction paper (8x10 or larger) in half. Draw half of a heart with the center of the heart starting on the fold (see picture). Draw it almost as large as the paper. Cut out along your drawn pencil lines. Now you have your first heart. Use this heart as a pattern to copy and trace it on another sheet of construction paper. You will need two hearts the exact same size in order to make your Valentine Card Holder. You can make yours in two different colors, one side pink and the other side red. It's more interesting and colorful when it comes time to decorate and hang.
Next, lay the two hearts together, and carefully use your hole puncher to make holes all around the outside edges of the heart. Leave about an inch between each hole.
Measure out and cut a piece of yarn that is about 3 feet long. You will use this yarn to lace in and out of each hole to attach the hearts together. Leave a piece of yarn that is about 3 inches long sticking out at the end when you begin. You will use this end to tie it off with the other end of the yarn after you have laced it all through the sides and bottom of the heart. Remember, you leave the top of your heart open so that you can drop in all of your valentine cards. Once you have laced your two hearts together, tie them off in a knot where you started and ended.
Now it's time to get fancy and decorate your Valentine Card Holder. How you decorate is up to you, but you can use glitter to outline the heart and cut out some small hearts to glue all around the large heart. Using markers and crayons, add some color and words such as "Be Mine," "I Love You" or "Be My Valentine" to decorate the hearts.
When you have finished your heart, check it over on both sides, and see if there is anything else you would like to add. You may even find a picture in a magazine that you would like to cut or a photo to paste on your heart.
To hang up your heart, you can carefully punch a hole on either side of the top center of the heart and loop a long piece of yarn so that you can still easily fit in your cards.
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