Easy Valentine's Day Craft

This is party week for me. Both my children are in preschool which means planning and running back to back parties this week. I will be very tired come Thursday afternoon! Helping with the parties is always a fun time to look at holiday themed crafts and activities, though. This year, I'm especially loving this little poem and craft I put together for both classes to do.

We'll have the children use red paint to put fingerprints in all the circles around the outside of the heart. This is also a great way to make kids' familiar with the heart shape. As a mom, I love when my kids bring home fingerprint or handprint crafts--they are always the most special.

Fingerprint crafts are also a great way to talk about how God made each of us. No fingerprint is the same—God made us all unique! This can be a great way to talk about the special care God put into creating everything.

Feel free to save the image above to make these with your kids! Whether with nursery kids, Sunday School students, or at home with your own kids--this is a great simple craft for little ones to do. You can use a washable ink pad instead of red paint if you want to keep the mess a little more minimal.  I used these ink pads (affiliate link) when I made these with my kids the other night and they worked really well. Enjoy!

(And yes, I realize this goes against my emphasis on process art in previous post!)

Also, I found the poem here on Pinterest--couldn't find the actual printable though, so I don't know who gets credit for this cute little saying!