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Contents: Candy
crackers and confetti
Vase with hearts and roses
Bouquet of pompons
Heart puzzle cube
Maps: 52 reasons why I love you.
Kissing painting A
heart made of cones A
heart embroidered on an envelope or card
Hearts with confetti and an arrow Heart-shaped
boxes with a surprise
Heart made of pompons
Valentine's Day (Valentine's Day) is celebrated by people from all over the world on February 14.
It is believed that this holiday was named after one of the two martyrs, Valentin Interamnsky and Valentin Rimsky.
On this day, people give their loved ones flowers, candies, cards (valentines) with poems and declarations of love, as well as many other gifts symbolizing love.
But a gift made by yourself will make no less impression than a purchased gift.
Here are a few DIY Valentine's Day gifts:
Candy crackers and confetti
You'll need:
– paper towel or toilet paper cylinders
– wrapping paper
– tape
– confetti
– scissors
– scotch tape
– candy or other small gifts
1. Cut the cardboard cylinder in half.
2. Fill each half with candy and confetti.
3. Fold the halves back and secure them together with tape.
4. Cut off a sheet of wrapping paper, wrap it around the connected halves of the cylinders and secure it with tape.
5. Tie two pieces of tape to both ends of the cylinder. You can curl tapes with scissors.
To get the contents, you need to break the craft in the center (where the halves of the cylinders are connected).
Read also: What to give for Valentine's Day
DIY vase with hearts and roses for Valentine's Day (master class)
You'll need:
– jar
– strong thread
– red felt
– needle
– glue and scotch tape.
1. Cut small hearts out of felt.
2. Thread the needle and thread through the hearts. Leave about 5-7 cm between the hearts.
3. Tie a knot on one side and the other side of the thread.
Read also: How is Valentine's Day celebrated in different countries?
4. Secure one end of the thread to the jar with glue or tape and start wrapping the jar with a thread with hearts.
The vase is ready, all that remains is to pour water into it and put the flowers.
DIY Valentine's Day (photo): a bouquet of pompons
You'll need:
– scissors
– green felt
– twine
– multicolored threads
– thread
– tape
– white acrylic or spray paint
– branches
– hot glue.
We make a pompom
1. Wrap the thread around your fingers 50 to 75 times. For a large pompon, you need to wrap it around 4 fingers, and for a small one around 2. Cut the thread.
2. Cut another piece of thread 15-20 cm long and wrap it around the lump you've wrapped around your fingers. Tie a knot.
3. Carefully remove the thread from your fingers and use scissors to cut the loops on the right and left.
4. Make a fluffier pompom by adjusting the threads. It is also worth cutting the thread a little with scissors to make the pompom more even.
We prepare the flower stems and connect the parts
1. Take the twigs and paint them white. Let the paint dry.
2. Using hot glue, attach the pompom to the branch.
3. Cut out leaves of any shape from green felt and glue them to the branches.
4. Make a few flowers to make a bouquet.
5. Wrap a bouquet of flowers with ribbon and twine. You can add a congratulatory note to the bouquet.
DIY Valentine's Day crafts: puzzle cube with hearts
You'll need:
– 4 wooden cubes
– acrylic paints and brushes
– PVA glue
– sparkles in different colors
– heart pattern
– pencil.
1. Place 4 cubes on a flat surface as shown in the image.
2. Place the heart template on the cubes and circle it with a simple pencil.
3. Start applying PVA glue to the cubes with a brush, namely to the places marked with a pencil.
4. Gently pour sparkles of the same color onto the glue. Remove excess with a brush. To ensure that the sparkles lie tightly, you can apply a layer of glue on top. Let the glue dry.
5. Rotate the cubes and repeat steps 1-4 to make another one heartily, only this time use glitter of a different color.
6. Cover all sides of the cubes with heart details.
You can put all the cubes in a cloth bag, which can also be decorated with a heart.
DIY Valentine's Day Gifts: 52 Reasons Why I Love You
You'll need:
– a deck of cards (36 or 52 pieces)
– binding rings
– colored cardboard
– double-sided tape
– hole punch
– a pen.
1. Make two holes in each card with a hole punch.
2. Put all the cards in a pile and thread the binding rings through the holes.
3. Cut several small rectangles out of cardboard; the size of one should not exceed the size of the card.
4. Using double-sided tape, glue the rectangles onto the cards.
5. On each rectangle, write for one reason why you love your soul mate. You can write something humorous for a change.
DIY gift for a guy on February 14: a picture of kisses
You'll need:
– white cardboard
– scissors
– picture or photo frame
– lipstick.
1. Cut out a piece of cardboard slightly larger than your frame.
2. Put a few “kisses” on white cardboard.
3. Insert the cardboard into the frame and write a personalized message on the back.
Read also: How to choose a gift for your beloved man
DIY gift for February 14: a heart made of cones
You'll need:
– cardboard
– red thick paper (this example uses 7 sheets measuring 30×30 cm)
– scissors
– hot glue or PVA glue
– strong thread.
1. From red paper, cut several (14 pieces in this example) squares measuring 7×7 cm for the inside of the heart, and 10×10 cm (47 pieces in this example) for the outer part.
2. Cut a heart out of cardboard. In this example, the widest part of the heart is 40 cm.
3. Make cones out of all the squares.
4. Start gluing the cones to the cardboard heart. Large cones on the outside and small ones on the inside.
Here's another option:
Valentine's Day gifts: a heart embroidered on an envelope or card
You'll need:
– colored knitting thread
– thick paper envelope or colored cardboard
– a needle (big enough for a thread)
– pencil
– elastic band
– scissors.
1. Draw a heart on a cardboard or envelope.
2. Use a needle to make several holes along the line of the painted heart.
3. Start threading the thread through the holes in different directions. At the end, tie a knot.
DIY gift ideas for February 14: hearts with confetti and arrow
You'll need:
– tracing paper
– colored cardboard (white, red, pink)
– confetti (you can buy ready-made ones or cut them out of colored paper)
– skewers
– black marker
– red thread
– needle
– PVA glue or hot glue
– scissors.
1. We make a heart template. Draw a heart on the cardboard and cut it out. To make it symmetrical, you can fold the cardboard in half and draw half of the heart and cut it out, then unbend the paper.
2. Place the heart template on tracing paper and circle it in two places to cut two identical hearts.
3. We make arrow feathers.
3.1. Fold the red cardboard in half and draw half of the arrow feathers (see image) and cut them out with scissors along the line.
3.2. Straighten the paper pens and cut them along the fold line. On each half, standing back from the edge by 0.25 cm, make a fold.
Repeat with the pink cardboard so that you end up with 4 pieces for the arrow.
4. We make an arrowhead.
4.1. Cut about 6 cm from the skewer with scissors.
4.2. Cut two identical triangles out of red and pink cardboard.
4.3. Glue the triangles together so that they cover the tip of the skewer.
5. We are collecting a heart.
5.1. With a black marker on one of the tracing paper hearts, write something pleasant for your soulmate.
5.2. Fasten both hearts with a red thread and a needle. Leave some space to fill the inside of the confetti.
6. Fill the heart with confetti.
6.1. You can add confetti and small secret notes inside the heart.
6.2. Sew the hearts to the end and tie a knot.
6.3. Gently slide the skewer through the heart between the seams.
7. Glue the paper pens to the arrow using PVA glue.
Gifts for February 14 (photo): heart-shaped boxes with a surprise
You'll need:
– colored cardboard
– scissors
– stationery knife
– line
– PVA glue
– clips
– corrugated paper
– seals (if desired)
– decorations to taste.
1. Cut a strip of colored cardboard. Its size is 28×4 cm.
2. Fold the strip in half.
3. Fold the ends of the strip together so that the outer sides of the ends touch.
4. Glue the ends of the paper tape that are in contact and secure them with two clips.
5. Cut out a square from cardboard that is larger than the size of a paper heart.
6. Apply some glue to the edges of the heart and stick it to the square.
7. Use scissors to cut the square along the outline of the paper heart. You got a small box.
8. Place a piece of corrugated paper on the box and cut a heart out of it slightly larger than a cardboard paper heart. Cut the fringe with scissors.
9. Put sweets or notes into the box, apply some glue to its edges and glue a corrugated paper heart. You can stick another corrugated paper heart on top (for strength).
10. Decorate the box with braid, hearts, feathers, etc. You can add the words “Don't break my heart”.
How to make a gift for February 14: a heart made of pompons
You'll need:
– ready-made pompoms or red knitting thread to make them
– scissors
– felt
– pillow
– thread and needle
– fabric glue (if necessary).
In this example, 22 pompons were used. The size of the pillow is 40 x 40 cm. The size of the resulting heart is 20 x 20 cm. One pompon has a diameter of 5 cm.
How to make a pompom with your own hands (video)
1. Cut a heart out of felt.
2. Prepare the pompons and use a thread to sew them to the felt heart. To find out how you can make a pompom, go to our article: 10 cute crafts for children and adults, section “DIY Spring Crafts”
3. Sew or glue a heart with pompoms to the pillow.
