Valetine's Craft

For Valentine Day this year we were going make heart shaped wreaths that I saw on a friends blog. The tutorial can be found here. The tutorial shows a round wreath, but my friend used a heart shaped wreath which I wanted to use as well. When I went to the craft store to get a heart shaped foam wreath I couldn't find one. I didn't want make a round wreath for Valentine's Day, so I was just about to forgo the whole project when I had an idea. I could make my own design up using the circle folding method found in the tutorial. I bought a large rectangle styrofoam like board and many sheets of colorful felt material. I think the board was meant for flower arrangements, but it worked well for our purpose too. The kids immensely enjoyed this craft, as did I because it was simple, clean,quick, and best of all super cute.



Here is the tutorial for how we made our LOVE board.

Material needed:


1. lots of long strait pins
2. felt material to cut in to circles
3. foam board
4.pencil
5.ruler
6.paper.

The first thing that we did was make letters out of paper to trace on our board. We used a ruler to make block letters , but you can draw your own or make them on the computer and print them off.

Then we place the letters on our board and arranged them the way we wanted and pinned them in place with straight pins.
After pinning the letters in place we traced them on the board with a pencil, or pen.


Then we outlined the letters with the folded felt circles.

After out lining the letters we filled them in.

After you outline and fill in all the letters then you are ready to fill in the rest of the board, and your project will be finished.