Valentine’s Day is a perfect holiday to create handmade cards. We like to use handprints or fingerprints since they make great keepsake cards. This fingerprint heart card is so easy to do it’s perfect for toddlers and preschoolers (with some cutting help). Parents and grandparents will love to receive this handmade card!
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The fingerprint version of this heart card is an easy Valentine’s day card for toddlers to make. Adults will need to help by cutting out the templates and then kids can stamp their fingerprints on the heart card. You could also have kids just color the card with markers or paint. It’s an easy one to set-up and a great gift personalized with a photo!
Fingerprint Valentine Heart Card
Here is what you need to make the fingerprint Valentine heart cards:Â
- Pink and red paintÂ
- White cardstock
- Red or pink glitter paper (if you want to make the glitter heart versions)
- Scissors
- Pictures
- Heart template – you can get the template by subscribing to our newsletter on the form with the preview of the heart template.
Watch the full tutorial video here before you get started!
Directions to Make a Valentine Heart Card
1. First print off the heart card template. You can get the template after these directions by subscribing to our newsletter on the form with the preview of the heart template. You can also free-hand draw your hearts or make your own by folding over a piece of paper and drawing half of the heart.
Fold over a piece glitter paper or white cardstock and then trace the template.
2. Cut out the cards and the inside heart for the photo.
3. Add fingerprints to the white cardstock heart. We used red and pink paint.
4. Add a photo by taping or gluing the photo on the inside of the card.
5. Write your special message inside!
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More Valentine’s Day Crafts for Kids
These heart handprint salt dough ornaments are the perfect Valentine’s day craft!
Make a handprint Valentine card with your own personalized heart messages inside. We love how easy this card is to make!
For another handprint card idea – see this handprint suncatcher craft.
I just found your page everything I saw so far looks amazing. we are going to start children’s class at church all ages. your projects are of various ages, wonderful.what do we need to do to sign into your projects,?
Hi Ruth- everything will either be on the post or you’ll need to just input your email to get the template delivered to you. Everything on my site is free. Hope that helps!