This bleeding tissue paper heart craft is a fun and easy process art activity for kids that creates the prettiest watercolor-style hearts. It’s a perfect craft for Valentine’s Day, but honestly works any time you want a simple, easy to prep process art project for your toddler or preschooler.
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​We have been enjoying so many fun Valentine’s crafts the past few weeks including these diy needle felted hearts and heart suncatchers.
Valentine’s Day parties are a highlight of my kids school year and this year they are making these applesauce pouch Valentine’s and tic tac toe Valentine’s cards to hand out to classmates!
​These painted hearts use bleeding tissue paper to create a fun watercolor effect and it’s fun to watch the colors mix on the paper. We strung our finished hearts up as a garland on our front window and it’s been a sweet addition to our Valentine’s decorations this year.
This is a fun heart craft for toddlers and preschoolers to work on fine motor skills while tearing the tissue paper into small pieces and also is a great way to work on scissor skills for preschoolers when they cut out their hearts! The small heart template is also a great size to put on a homemade Valentine’s card to give to family and friends as well 🙂
Materials
- Bleeding tissue paper – You specifically need bleeding tissue paper to use for this project as regular tissue paper does not work or bleed it’s colors.
- White cardstock or watercolor paper
- Free printable heart template – You can find the link for the template is below
- Scissors
- Water
- Paintbrush or spray bottle
Tissue Paper Heart Instructions
Step One: Print your heart template on cardstock or watercolor paper
Step Two: Begin adding tissue paper squares to the heart and use your paintbrush and water to get the tissue paper to stick to the paper
Step Three: Once your heart is covered with tissue paper use your paintbrush to make sure all sections are damp
Step Four: Allow your paper to dry (this took about 15-30 minutes)
Step Five: Once your hearts are dry you can remove the tissue paper to reveal the watercolor hearts!
Step Six: Cut out your hearts and hang up!
Your Free Heart Template
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I hope you enjoyed this fun and easy heart craft for Valentine’s Day!
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