A lot of things have been running through my mind lately (which I hope to have time to post about later), but I feel like I’ve been really internally focused and not very externally focused. Meaning our school has been really pathetic and not very fun recently. So today I thought we’d try to liven things up a bit and do a Valentine’s Day art project. Heart trees. They looked so cute and unassuming on Pinterest, but they turned out to be a lot more involved than I’d originally thought.
The hand print tree-trunk part went fine. We’ve done that before.
But making the hearts got tricky. I thought the boys would be able to do the hearts by themselves, but since the paper strips were pretty small, it took a lot more coordination, and I ended up making most of the hearts (Lincoln did some) and just having the kids glue them on. First, you have to do kind of a funky, twisty thing with the paper to get the staple in the right place.
Then you have to squish the bottom of the heart into a point.
Once you have a bunch of hearts, you can glue them into place fairly easily. And the trees do turn out super cute when they’re finished. Maybe a good solution would be to just have longer paper strips (and therefore bigger hearts), and that way the kids could do it all on their own.
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