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What you need:

Non-toxic stamp pad or paint
Scrap paper
Notepaper or postcards
Construction paper

What you do:

  1. Image of St Valentine heartHave kids practice on scrap paper making a V-shaped heart by joining two index finger prints at the bottoms.
  2. Accordion hearts:  cut a long narrow rectangle from a piece of construction paper, then fold it in four, accordion style.  Next, have kids stamp hearts of cut out hearts and glue down to each square.


The stamping section at your craft store has a great variety of note cards and book marks for stamping.  To make a cute gift, make hearts on 6 note cards with matching envelopes and tie the group together with a pretty ribbon!

Image of a card with a Valentine heart with the words "with love"     Image of a card with Valentine heart and with these words "Be Mine"


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