Kids Craft Corner – Heart String

This week was a 2 craft session week.  With Valentine’s Day next week and all the materials out, we decided to do a little more decorating.  Remember the construction paper chains we made as children for Christmas?  We took that idea a little further and used the cardboard tubes from paper towel rolls and created hearts that we strung.  We made a couple strings and hung them in the doorway of the kitchen.

Heart String

Materials Needed

Paper towel cardboard tubes (10 hearts per tubes, we used 3 tubes)
Pencil
Ruler
Scissors
Newspaper
Red paint
Paint brushes
Red embroidery thread
Push pin
Needle
Red beads

1. With a ruler mark a cutting line for every inch.  Flatten the cardboard tubes and cut the tube on the lines.

 

 

2. Paint the inside and outside of the rings with red paint. Protect the surface by laying some old newspaper down.  Allow them to dry completely.

3. Shape each tube by pressing in on one of the creases to form a heart shape. This is easier said than done – we had to glue some of the tubes back together, since where they form started to peel away – looked great and could hardly notice.

4. Take your push pin and make a hole in the top and bottom of each heart.

5. Thread the needle with the embroidery thread and knot it.  String one bead on and let it fall to the knot. Loop back and thread the needle back through the bead from top to bottom – this will secure the bead.

6. String on a heart, going from bottom to top of heart.

7. String another bead on and loop back going from bottom to top of bead.  You now have a bead at the top and bottom of your heart.

8. Determine how much space you want between your hearts and string another bead, securing it by looping back through bottom to top.  Follow steps 5 – 7.  Continue until you have strung your hearts.

9.  Once you have strung all your hearts, leave  enough thread at the top for hanging.  Tie a loop on the top to secure to whatever you are going to hang it from (nail, thumb tack, hook).

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One Response to Kids Craft Corner – Heart String

  1. jo says:

    That is adorable….and so is Stella. What a great idea and it is so pretty. xoxo

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