Making Valentine Cards With Beads
Your children can make some very pretty home-made Valentine's Day cards with
a small supply of beads and some imagination!
Red Beaded Heart Card
We drew a heart shape directly onto our card
with gold pen, and then carefully stuck small red wooden beads along the
line (this was fiddly!).
Pearl Beaded Heart Card
The second card was made in the same way, but this time we used a mount
of brown paper and a selection of pastel coloured pearl beads. We broke
with tradition and used a pale mauve envelope, which sets off the beads
nicely.
NB These two cards are quite tricky to put together neatly and will
probably appeal more to older children.
Younger children might try the following:
Seed Beaded Heart Card
We cut a heart shape from red
card, painted it with school (PVA) glue, and sprinkled it thickly with
seed beads in a mixture of colours - red, pink and white. When the glue
was dry, we attached the heart to our card with a small square
"sticky fixer" so that the heart would be slightly proud of the
card. The younger the kids, the bigger you should make the heart and
beads! Alphabet Bead Card
The card on the right was simply a question of choosing our alphabet
beads and having nimble fingers to stick them on to a square cut from red
card as a mount. We embellished with a red sequin.
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