Here’s one of our favorite homemade valentines- a Butterly Pencil Valentine using paper hearts! This post also includes free printable labels to attach to your finished valentine cards. (And it’s candy free!) This easy Valentine’s Day activity would be perfect for a classroom party.
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Do you remember our glitter stamped hearts we made recently? We decided to use the finished hearts from that post to make these adorable butterfly valentines! (This post contains affiliate links.)
Valentine Cards: Butterfly Pencil Valentine
Materials for Heart Butterfly Homemade Valentine
- Glitter hearts from our previous post (or just plain hearts cut from cardstock or construction paper)
- Valentine themed pencils (like these)
- Scissors
- Pipe cleaners
- Shipping labels (optional)
Directions for Heart Butterfly Homemade Valentine
1. Make some glitter heart wings for your butterfly. Or you could also used plain hearts cut from cardstock or construction paper.
2. Choose two hearts to use for your butterfly.
3. Overlap the hearts by about 1 1/2 inches.
3. Holding the overlapping part together between your fingers, fold the hearts as if they were a greeting card, with glitter sides facing each other.
4. Cut two slits on the folded edge for the pencil.
5. Open up the heart “greeting card” and slip the pencil through the first slit and then through the second slit. The pencil is now holding your hearts together.
7. Use half of a pipe cleaner to add antennae, and you’re done!
8. You can also print out these free valentine labels to peel and stick to the back of your butterfly wings if you’re planning on passing them out! They are formatted to fit shipping sized labels (2 in. x 4 in.).
Tips
- My 2 year old painted his heart wings with watercolors rather than use glitter. There’s so many possibilities!
- Lucy needed quite a bit of help assembling the butterfly. We finally got a system going~ she’d hand me the two hearts and pencil for the butterfly, I’d do the cuts and insert the pencil, then she’d attach the antennae and shape them. Great teamwork!
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Amy says
February 1, 2013 at 8:55 pmI love it! I recently saw another valentine idea that included a pencil, but I think this one is more creative.
Anonymous says
January 28, 2014 at 9:58 pmWhat size hearts did you use?
Chelsey says
January 29, 2014 at 8:23 amWe used 6 inch hearts! 🙂
anna1975 says
February 2, 2013 at 2:02 amThis is so sweet. I am a bit envious of Lucy’s valentine-receivers!
cuddlebugkidsetsy says
February 2, 2013 at 7:32 amSo cute! Homemade valentines are so sweet!
Chrissy Jordan says
February 4, 2013 at 1:34 pmI love it! Kids get so much candy, it’s great to give them something practical!
And… just gotta put this out there, your little princess is adorable! ;P
Thanks for linking up at F-it Fridays, I hope to see you back again next week!
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admin says
February 4, 2013 at 2:36 pmThanks, Chrissy!
Priscilla Whitaker says
February 6, 2013 at 6:59 pmI absolutely love your crafts. I will be making the butterfly pencil valentine with the little girl I babysit.
Chelsey Marashian says
February 6, 2013 at 9:21 pmOh, thank you so much, Priscilla! I hope you enjoy making the butterfly pencil valentine!
Tracey@We-Made-That says
February 7, 2013 at 4:23 amThose are great! And I love that they are a pencil instead of candy. Really cute! Thanks for sharing on We Made That!
Carrie says
February 8, 2013 at 5:40 amWhat a great idea!! I love them! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
Catherine(Momma's Fun World) says
February 8, 2013 at 8:08 pmWhat a cute idea. Shared on my FB page.
Tricia @ Two Big Two Little says
February 9, 2013 at 6:07 amI love these. They are so cute and a great Valentine’s gift that doesn’t have candy 🙂
Thanks for linking up to the Kid’s Co-op. I have featured your post this week and will be pinning it to the Co-op board on Pinterest.
Rebecca says
January 19, 2014 at 1:07 amSuch a sweet idea. Children don’t give each other valentine’s in the UK but this would work for birthdays or as a teacher gift.
Jill says
January 19, 2014 at 4:02 pmI love this, it is cute, creative and crafty!
Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!
maryanne @ mama smiles says
January 19, 2014 at 7:35 pmI love these! Pinned them to my Valentines Day for Kids board 🙂
Rachelle says
January 23, 2014 at 1:33 pmI LOVE this! What a smart idea.
Eileen says
February 5, 2014 at 1:29 amWhat a cute Valentine’s Butterfly . So practical and a craft kids would love to make .