Create your own three dimensional blooming card for Valentine’s Day.  

What You Need: 

• White construction paper or card stock 
• Colored paper 
• Markers 
• Ribbon  
• Scissors 
• Green felt or fabric 
• Glue or glue dots 

What You Do: 

1. Cut a pile of different sizes of hearts out from the colored paper. 
2. Add doodles, dots, and designs to your hearts.  
3. Fold sturdy white paper in half to make a card.  
4. Cut thin strips of green fabric or felt to make stems. If you don’t have fabric, simply use a green marker or crayon to draw your stems.  
5. Make a tiny bow with ribbon to glue across the middle of the stems. If you don’t have ribbon, just use a thin piece of paper. 
6. Attach the paper hearts to the stems with glue dots or glue.  
7. Continue adding hearts for full bouquet. 
8. Write a kind message or poem inside. 

Words to Use: 

• Three-dimensional: Having or appearing to have length, depth, and height. 
• Texture: The way a surface or material feels when you touch it, especially how smooth or rough it is. 
• Bouquet: An attractively arranged bunch of flowers.  
• Poem: A piece of writing that expresses emotions, experiences and ideas especially in short lines using words that rhyme. 

What to Talk About: 

• Discuss texture. Compare and contrast the differences between fabrics. 
• Discuss the difference between the three-dimensional hearts and the flat stems. 
• Rhyming words. What kind of words express feelings? 

Change It Up:  

• Use ribbon or string, or even real grass for your stems.  
• Add words to the hearts to form a message, like conversation heart candies. 
• Try writing a haiku poem inside. A haiku is a Japanese form of poetry.  Each short poem has three lines with five syllables in the first and last line and seven syllables in the middle line. 

Learning Connections: 

• Communication 
• Creativity 
• Social & Emotional Development 
• Literacy 
• Fine Motor Development 
   

Curriculum Connections:  

• Visual Arts: 2.V.1, 2.V.1 
• English Language Arts:   R.L.1.4