Make Easy Paper Accordion Heart Valentines
Have fun making Easy Paper Accordion Heart Valentines with the kids! They can use them to make cute cards for friends at school or string them as a garland for a Valentine’s Day party!
Servings: 1 Paper Accordion Heart Valentine
Cost: $1
Equipment
- none needed
Ingredients
- 8.5 x 11-inch colored paper, construction paper, or scrapbook paper try cupcake liners or coffee filters too!
- Tacky Glue glue stick or hot glue
- A dinner plate or saucer-sized plate
- colored markers
- pen, scissors, tape, string or ribbon, or a bone folder.
Instructions
- Lay the 8.5 x 11-inch paper down on your work surface in the landscape direction (horizontal). Center a dinner plate over the paper. Draw around the plate where it sits on the paper. Cut it out on the lines.
- Fold the paper accordion style with about ½ inch folds from one straight edge to the other of the paper. Crease the folds well. Fold the flat folded strip in half and crease well.
- Glue the two center-folded edges of the heart together with Tacky Glue. Hold the valentine until the glue sets.
- Gently fan out the heart and gently pull on the folds that stick together. Make a variety of colors, patterns (scrapbook paper), and sizes.
- Personalize the heart and/or use it in a product. Ideas are on the post. Make smaller accordion heart, make them from other materials, add them to cards, make garlands, make a wreath.
Video
Notes
Find variations and tips on the post.