Make this fun and colorful keepsake with your children’s hands! A little paint, construction paper and crepe paper streamers, and you have a festive wall hanging for the holiday of love.

Be sure to visit all of our Valentine’s Day crafts, our Valentine’s Day cards and printable activities and our main Valentine’s Day ideas page.

What you’ll need:

* 1 sheet pink construction paper
* 9″ x 12″ piece of white poster board or cardstock
* Crepe paper streamers in festive colors cut into 14″ lengths
* 18″ piece of yarn
* Crayons
* Acrylic paints (we used light blue, red and pink)
* Scissors
* Tape
* Paintbrush

How to make it:

1. Have child make a fist with both hands.

2. Start with the left hand. Use paintbrush to paint the side of their pinky finger and the side of the hand below it. Press onto the poster board to form the left side of the heart. Repeat these steps with the right hand, creating the right side of the heart. (See image.)

3. Repeat step 2 for each child, use different colors if you like.

4. While the paint is drying on the poster board, wash off children’s hands and cut the crepe paper streamers into 14″ lengths. You will 7 all together. (See image.)

5. When the painted hearts are dry, trim the poster board edge(s) to fit evenly onto the pink construction paper, this will be your framed border. Be sure to leave room above and below the hearts to write names and a greeting.

6. Glue poster board to the construction paper, and then trim construction paper if needed.

Read the rest here