Have a really wild valentine with our easy make 3D animal hearts

Have a really wild valentine with our easy make 3D animal hearts

Have a really wild valentine with our easy make 3D animal hearts
Walk on the wild side this Valentines with our super super easy to make paper hearts! Make up our animals or there's a blank template to design your own! Let your children play with them or even hang from a baby gym or similar (under full supervision of course!) 
 

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Printable templates to make an animal themed paper valentines heart

Here's how to make a 3D animal heart:
What you need
Print outs
Scissors
Glue stick
Colouring pens (optional)
String (optional)
 
What to do
 
 Print out of hearts on paper with mismatched animals  2 strips of 3 cut out paper hearts that are joined featuring animal illustrations
1. Print out the download and cut out the hearts. Make sure you don't cut between them though - you should have 2 strips x 3 joined hearts.
 
Cut out paper hearts with animals on them folded  Two cut out paper hearts with animals on them next to a glue stick  
 
2. Fold the plain heart (with no animals on it) behind the middle heart - make sure you don't cover up the animals! Glue it in place. Repeat with the remaining heart so you fold it behind what was the middle heart, to create a double sided heart with animals on both sides. Glue that one in place too. Don't worry, the heads and tails are not supposed to match at this point.
 
 cut out paper hearts with mismatched animal illustrations
 
3. Repeat with the other strip of hearts so you end up with two double sided hearts that feel fairly thick to touch/not too bendy or floppy.
 
Scissors cutting along a dotted line on a paper heart  Close up of scissors cutting along a dotted line on a paper heart
 
4. Cut along the dotted lines, one goes from the point to the middle and the other from the top down. Careful not to cut too far.
 
two paper hearts that have slots cut halfway down each one with black and white animals on them  Two paper hearts slotted together to make up a 3D heart featuring an illustration of a lion from the black and white book project
 
5. Slide the two hearts together to make a 3D animal valentines heart!
 
3D paper valentines heart with a warthog illustration from the little black and white book project  3D paper heart wit illustration of a rhino from the little black and white book project  3D valentines heart with zebra illustration from the little black and white book project  
 
And there you go! Our beautifully simple valentines themed sensory animal heart. A bit of fun to engage your little ones in the festival of love and celebrate our wild friends out in nature.
 
 3D valentines heart craft with illustrations of warthog and zebra and pink paper hearts in the background from the little black and white book project
  
Got older ones? or maybe you have a creative streak yourself? Well you can use our blank template to make your own designs. We always love to see what you make so don't forget to tag us on Instagram @the_little_bw_book_project and we will give you a shout out. 
 
 
 
 

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