This heart chalk stencil art is one of our favorite Valentine’s Day crafts for kids. Children always seem to enjoy this fun method of creating collages using chalk and stencils!
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Do you remember our Christmas Light Chalk Stencil Art from a few months back? We enjoyed that project so much that we wanted to try using the same method to make a Valentine’s Day craft. We came up with this colorful heart collage. I love how the hearts look like they’re almost glowing! (This post contains affiliate links.)
Chalk Stencil Heart Collage
Materials for Heart Collage
- Black construction paper
- Colored chalk
- Cotton balls
- Thick paper like card stock or file folders to make the heart stencil. You can even used old pieces of cardboard from cereal boxes!
Directions for Making the Heart Collage
1. Draw a heart shape on your thick paper and cut it out. This will be your stencil for tracing.
2. Place your heart stencil on the black paper. Outline it with a piece of colored chalk.
3. Still holding the stencil in place, use a cotton ball to brush the chalk away from the stencil. Do this all the way around the heart stencil.
4. Remove the stencil to reveal your heart!
5. Continue making hearts using different colored chalk to create your collage.
Tips
- Try out different colors of paper for the background or experiment with mixing and blending the chalk.
- You can even overlap the stencils to create some interesting designs!
- Try making other pictures with heart stencils. We used the hearts to make a flower!
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jenny says
January 13, 2014 at 4:47 pmThese are so sweet! My 7 year old would love to do this! My 3 year old would love to write on herself with the chalk, lol!
Chelsey says
January 13, 2014 at 7:38 pmThank you, Jenny! And I totally know what you’re talking about with the chalk temptation! LOL
Still Playing School says
January 14, 2014 at 10:24 amI loved the lights, but I might love these more! Please do them all year round: lightning bugs, fireworks, ghosts!!!
Heather @ Crayon Box Chronicles says
January 15, 2014 at 7:13 amGreat photos! I love your technique. It’s so versatile too. Chalk is such a fun medium that you don’t see often. Thank you for sharing.
jane coquillon says
January 15, 2014 at 2:56 pmThis would also work great with soft pastels!
I’m going to try this technique in my art journal today, thanks for the idea 🙂
Sacha says
January 18, 2014 at 7:32 pmI used to love doing something VERY similar to this. What I would do is use a regular pencil, draw a shape (since I was a young teenager, i would pick hearts), So I would draw a heart and then take a kleenex and smudge around the edge. It did something very similar this. I still love looking at the ones that I did from a long time ago, but might definitely have to do this one 🙂
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Sacha
Chelsey says
January 18, 2014 at 9:10 pmHow fun! Now I’m super excited to try it with a pencil! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Claire says
January 19, 2014 at 9:34 amWow! These are beautiful and look like they’re fun to make! Can’t wait to try this out! 🙂
The Preschool Toolbox says
January 28, 2014 at 10:43 amThis is a great project! I’ll bet your kids loved playing and seeing the results of their stencils! Thanks so much for sharing today via our FB page!
HappyNanny says
February 5, 2014 at 9:13 pmIs there a something you spray on the project to maintain the integrity of the chalk?
Chelsey says
February 5, 2014 at 9:47 pmI usually don’t spray the projects, although some of my teacher friends say using hairspray with a very fine mist works!
Claire says
February 13, 2014 at 5:10 amHello there! We just wanted to let you know that we loved this activity so much that we’ve featured it today as one of our 5 Therapist-Approved Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids at The Inspired Treehouse! Thanks for the great idea! 🙂
Debbie S. says
February 7, 2017 at 12:20 pmThese are really cute! I think putting pictures inside the hearts would look neat too.