Make a Family Valentine

By A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez

Jan 22, 2024

30 min activity

Pinkalicious reminds us there are many ways to show your loved ones how much you care about them. When her Valentine’s Day gifts for each of her friends are ruined, she thinks of a creative solution: a giant collage for the entire class!

Making a DIY Valentine's Day collage is a great way to show your family and friends what you love about them. This homemade craft represents the collective beauty of being together by combining our individual interests into a work of art. It’s a fun and engaging activity to learn about each other and strengthen family bonds, too!

Now it’s your family’s turn to join in the fun. Create a valentine for the whole family inspired by the one Pinkalicious made! Gather your loved ones and invite them to make a family valentine collage together.

Materials

Directions

Make a heart for each member of your family out of construction paper. Invite each family member to select the color they’d like for their heart. Then, fold the paper in half and cut a crescent-like shape out of the paper, starting from the top and tapering toward the bottom. Or you can draw a heart on one sheet of paper that you cut out to use as a stencil to make more hearts. Make a heart for each family member — even pets! Try to make each heart the same size.

Now it’s time for the fun part! Gather your decorating supplies and encourage each family member to decorate their heart. You can use markers, crayons, paints, glitter, or something completely different. You choose! Use your tools to draw a few interests that show who they are and what they enjoy.

Grab your decorated hearts and glue them together at the edges. Apply pressure after each glue application, so your heart petals stick together. Your family valentine flower might look differently based on the number of loved ones or petals in your family. But that’s OK!

After you have glued all of your heart petals together, lay the family valentine on the table for the finishing touches! It can be fun to make one smaller heart or circle to place in the middle with your family name.

Find a nice place to display your family valentine, like on your wall or door. Add more heart petals if you’d like to let it grow! Talk with your child about what they learned about their family members while making the valentine and celebrate what makes your loved ones unique.