Make a Tissue Heart

Description

Make a 3-D Tissue Heart for Valentines Day to brighten up a bulletin board, hang on a door knob, or tie onto a special valentine's gift. Using just tissue and glue and construction paper, make a decorative heart to brighten up someone's day. A good activity to help strengthen fine motor skills.

Materials

• 1 piece of construction paper or cardstock (white or red)
• Red and white tissue paper
• Elmer's Non-Toxic Glue)
• Pencil with erase (can be unsharpened for safety purposes)
• Ribbon about 6" to hang heart with.
• Packing tape or Aleene's Craft Glue to attach ribbon securely

Steps

• Cut tissue into 1.5" squares. It is easiest to cut squares with a paper cutter.
• Take one of the square tissue pieces. Put a small dot of glue on the heart shape.
• Using the pencil, place eraser in center of tissue and twist tissue a little round the eraser and press onto glue.
• Repeat with red on the outside to complete heart.
• Attach ribbon loop in back to hang heart with.

Tips to Make the Tissue Heart

• If child is having difficulty with the pencil eraser method, simply have them use pointer finger to wrap tissue around and place on glue.
• Fold tissue up and cut with a paper cutter is much quicker and easier to measure.

Other Ideas

• Roll tissue into small balls and glue on. We have some other activities here that use this technique.
• Use different colors or find another heart pattern online.
• Frame in a shadow box or send as a card.
• Discuss heart shape and show how you fold a paper in half. If child is old enough and familiar with using scissors, let them cut the heart out.

Other Heart Activities