Looking for fun crafts that teens will enjoy? Make a Valentine's Day collage, edible cards, a heart-shaped candle, and a heart-shaped pillow.
Looking for Valentine's Day crafts that teens will enjoy? Here are four quick and fun projects:
Valentine's Day Collage
This collage can consist of any images related to love.
supplies needed:
old magazines
scissors
glue stick
cardboard or poster board
- Go through old magazines, cutting out photos. It may help to set them up on your cardboard or poster board as you go along. Look for words that can be combined, "be my valentine", "love you always", and "sweet heart", for example.
- Once you have enough images and words to fill your canvas, paste them into place, using glue stick.
- To prevent curling while drying, you may want to weigh down the corners of the poster board.
Graham Cracker Valentine's Day Cards
Why not make Valentine's Day cards that you can eat?
supplies needed:
graham crackers, any flavor
frosting in red, pink, and white
small candies
a pastry bag with a tip small enough to write with
- Use whole graham crackers, without separating them.
- Use frosting in Valentine's Day colors, or any that appeal to you, really. Be creative!
- Write sweet messages with the pastry bag, draw roses, hearts, borders, anything that you would find on a Valentine's Day card. The frosting will hold your chosen candies perfectly.
- It's best to eat these when they are done because the graham crackers are fresh and extra crunchy, and the frosting is silky-soft and yummy.
Heart-Shaped Candle
This candle creates warm ambient lighting, and smells wonderful!
supplies needed:
a heart-shaped candle mold
red candle wax
white wax cubes
wick of appropriate size and length
- Visit a candle-making supply shop to get your materials for this project, and use paraffin wax. Choose sweet scents, like cinnamon, peppermint, or strawberry. If you can't find wax that is already scented, add a bit of fragrance oil.
- As always with candle-making, use extra caution and care while working.
- Make sure that your wick is firmly attached to the bottom of the mold, at it's center.
- Place the wax cubes inside the mold first, keeping the wick straight. Next, pour the melted wax in, slowly.
- When it has cooled completely, remove the mold, and you have a chunky candle that smells delicious.
Heart-Shaped Pillow
Decorate a bed with larger pillows. Smaller pillows make great Valentine's Day gifts.
supplies needed:
a fun fabric like red fur or soft fleece
scrap fabric or paper
scissors
thread
ticking (stuffing)
- Draw a large heart on scrap fabric, or a sheet of paper. Make the heart swollen to compensate for the amount of stuffing that will go into it. If you have trouble making both sides of the heart even, fold you template in half, lengthwise. Trace this half onto another piece of fabric or paper, flip it over, and trace the other side.
- When you are satisfied with your heart drawing, cut it out, lay it onto a the fabric that you will use to make the pillow, and cut around the template.
- Sew your pillow outside in, along the edge. When you have it almost completed it, flip it inside out, and add lots of stuffing. Lastly, sew up the hole. Complete this project faster with a sewing machine.
