Awesome paper quilling valentine cards! We love homemade Valentine’s Day Cards for kids and these paper quilled hearts are a great art project for kids to make. The results are beautiful and the process is super fun!
A wonderful Paper Quilling for Kids Project – learn how to make these adorable Paper Quilled Hearts – using big paper quills for smaller hands. If your the kids are feeling more confident, why not take a look at these wonderful Paper Quilled Daisies or Paper Quilled Wreaths?!
Over to Jeanette!
Hi, all! I’m Jeanette Nyberg from Craft Whack where I offer all sorts of art projects for kids and design for kids on Craft Whack. I live in the Chicago area with my family and I love coming up with easy ideas for kids to be creative every day.
We are big fans of paper projects here and I’ve been wanting to try a basic quilling project for some time. This is extremely basic – if your kids enjoy this they may want to explore some more complicated quilling techniques. I found some amazing videos on You Tube.
In any event, this project will introduce to your kids (or reinforce) the idea of using paper as a 3-dimensional medium instead of it always being flat. Poor paper just wanted to evolve…
UPDATE: we also have a Paper Quilled Emoji version for you to check out!!
UPDATE: We Made a Craft Video of Paper Quilling for Kids
Materials:
- Colored Card Stock
- Scissors
- Glue
- Something to coil the paper around (we used a small paintbrush handle. A pencil was too thick and made the insides of the paper spirals too open.)
Directions:
Cut small strips of colored card stock. We used white, light pink, and red. The strips were approximately 14 x 1 cm. Older kids can use a craft knife to cut strips, but we found scissors worked quite well- the strips don’t need to be perfectly even.
Coil the strips, one by one, tightly around the paintbrush handle. They will stay coiled when you remove them.
Fold a full piece of colored card stock in half (this is the card itself). Using 2 strips of card stock, form a heart shape and glue the strips onto the front of the card. We applied glue to the edge of the strip and held it in place for about a minute per strip. I then placed a light box over the heart to keep it in place while it dried for about 1/2 hour.
Now is the fun part! Dip each coil into a puddle of glue and place inside the heart. We used 3 colors, but feel free to experiment with more or fewer colors.
That’s it! Don’t forget to inscribe the card with a sweet message to your valentine…
Be sure to visit Artchoo for more creative ideas for kids, including these projects:
More wonderful Valentines Day Cards for Kids to make here:
Jeanette Nyberg says
Thanks so much for having me on the blog today, Maggy!
Red Ted Art says
My pleasure Jeanette, so great to have you!
Art Mom says
I love Artchoo and Red Ted – great to see this post here. We’re getting excited for Valentine’s too. This is a great idea and so creative and easy!
Marianne says
What do you feel is a good beginner age to try paper quilling? Thanks!
Red Ted Art says
Oh now there is a GOOD question. I would say it depends on the child? But would start trying from around 5-6yrs old if they are interested?
Bhumi Faldu says
Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial on valentines day paper Quilling idea.
Kate says
you have that it takes approx 14 strips of paper to make this, however the pic shows more. My total count after making it is 20 strips, 2 to make the heart and the rest as the paper curls. In case anyone was having difficulty. Thanks, this is a great idea!