Many moons in the past, I hosted my fellow bloggers in a “31 Days of Love” sequence… we had plenty of enjoyable and so many beautiful crafts have been shared. I’m now taking to alternative to cherry choose a few of these concepts, that I feel make great Presents Children Can Make within the run as much as Christmas, household birthdays, Mom’s Day, Valentine’s Day after all or “simply because”! In the present day, we share these lovely memento thumbprint hearts magnets made with my favorite of favorite home made supplies our favorite salt dough recipe! Now that my very own youngsters are older (youngsters!), I want we had made of those keepsakes once they have been little. They develop up SO FAST!
The unique Valentine’s Day Publish from manner again in 2015:
In the present day we welcome Louise on our 31 Days of Love Collection – besides it isn’t actually 31 Days anymore.. proper? However extra like 35.. however how can I resist all these nice Love Crafts and celebrating Valentine’s Day with fellow bloggers from around the globe? So at present, now we have one other Valentine’s Day craft for you – cute little Thumbprint Coronary heart Magnets! A brilliant cute present and nice little memento that children could make and that might make an amazing Valentine’s Day present for family and friends. Although Mothers particularly will love these. They’re an amazing classroom exercise too. These thumbprint hearts make great keepsakes to make on Valentine’s Day! The right Valentine’s Day Present for Toddlers to make. Attractive.
Extension concept: perhaps make smaller variations of those and switch them into thumbprint coronary heart necklaces
Hi there, I’m Louise and I’m sooo enthusiastic about visitor posting over right here at RED TED ART (one in every of my all time favorite blogs!) and sharing this craft tutorial with you at present. Thanks Maggy!
I weblog over at “Messy little Monster’ and I’d love you to pop over to see all of the crafts, actions, and adventures I stand up to with my little monster Harry (3) and his child sister Daisy (5 months).
I’m a main college trainer and I LOVE something arty, Harry loves making a large number and Daisy simply smiles at every thing. We have now plenty of arty, artful, messy enjoyable collectively and I’d like to share our enjoyable concepts, creations and actions with you. In the present day I’ve an amazing present concept to share with you, that hopefully the entire household will take pleasure in making.. or you may make these in a classroom atmosphere too. It’s a easy craft and excellent for not simply Valentine’s Day, however Father’s Day, Grandparent’s Day or, after all for Mother on Mom’s Day!
‘THUMB physique loves you’ Thumbprint Magnets
I completely love with the ability to seize my youngsters tiny little prints, whether or not its handprints, footprints or fingerprints, as they actually don’t keep small for lengthy! In the present day I’m delighted to have the ability to share these beautiful thumbprint magnets with you. They’d make nice valentines or Moms day presents (if you happen to don’t hold them as a memento for your self).
Make some Salt dough
This Salt dough recipe is tremendous straightforward and versatile to make – merely combine the next (including the water regularly).
- 2 Cups of Flour
- 1 Cup of Salt
- upto 1 cup of water
You possibly can add some good high quality pink meals colouring to your salt dough and color it pink forward of time. Or you may paint your salt dough pink afterwards. We have now used paint to color salt dough prior to now, however discovered that we bought finest outcomes with the great high quality meals colouring!
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- A heart-shaped cookie cutter (UK/ US)
- Acrylic paint for the thumb prints (pink UK /US) (gold UK/ US)
- Paints for the salt dough (I like utilizing top quality meals coloring)
- Sealer/varnish (UK / US)
- Small magnets (UK/US)
- Fantastic black sharpie (UK / US)
- Robust PVA glue or scorching glue to safe the small magnets
- Your youngster’s thumb….
make Salt Dough
You possibly can watch our helpful salt dough video tutorial if you want! Or just observe the detailed step-by-step directions beneath!
Salt Dough Thumbprint Hearts – Fridge Magnet Present Concept
Make your primary salt dough clay
Take your flour and put it in a mixing bowl.
Add the salt and blend.
Add half the water and stir.
Progressively add the remaining water and hold mixing and stirring till you’ve gotten a easy dough.
Add color to your salt dough combination if you want
We made up a batch of pink and pure colored salt dough.
We flattened our salt dough and lower out a number of coronary heart shapes utilizing a cookie cutter.
Add your youngsters’s fingerprints to your salt dough
Now it’s time to add your youngsters’s fingerprints!
Harry dipped his thumb into some acrylic paint and I helped him make 2 thumbprints on our salt dough within the form of a coronary heart. We used pink paint on the pure colored salt dough and gold for the pink salt dough.
We then left them to dry. You possibly can bake them within the oven at a low temperature (about 150 levels) or depart them to dry in a heat room for a few days.
Add the ending touches to your coronary heart magnets
As soon as our hearts have been dry we sealed and varnished them. We used Mod Podge multi function sealer glue and end however you would attempt PVA glue.
As soon as the varnish had dried I had a easy floor prepared to put in writing our message ‘THUMB physique loves you’. I used a high quality black ink sharpie.
I glued a small magnet to the again of every salt dough coronary heart! Robust PVA glue is nice for this.
Have you learnt anyone that might like to obtain a thumbprint magnet?
Listed here are a number of extra coronary heart crafts from ‘Messy Little Monster’ that you just would possibly take pleasure in
Try a spherical up of final yr’s Valentine’s Day Card concepts? An intensive assortment of beautiful coronary heart themed playing cards to make for Valentine’s Day or all yr spherical!
Full itemizing of 31 Days of Love posts right here!