Free Crafts For Kids Valentines

• Scissors
• Craft foam 
• Permanent markers
• Pipe cleaner
• Pencil

• Cut a 1- to 2-inch heart from craft foam.

• With a permanent marker, print a short message on the front and the name of the giver on back.

• Now poke an inch of the pipe cleaner through the bottom of the heart, bend it down, and twist it back around the remaining length of pipe cleaner.

• Coil the pipe cleaner tightly around the pencil.

• Then gently pull up on the heart so that part of the coil bobs freely above the pencil, with several loops anchored around the eraser.

• Craft foam
• Pen 
• Scissors
• Pipe cleaners
• Envelope

• Draw a heart on craft foam that's about 2 1/2 inches wide and 2 1/2 inches tall.

• Draw a second heart inside the first that's roughly 1 1/2 inches wide and 1 1/2 inches tall.

• Cut them both out.

• Then trace around the see-through heart to make another just like it.

• Twist together 2 different-colored pipe cleaners, leaving about 1 inch untwisted at each end.

• Cut them in half with scissors (use old ones since pipe cleaners can dull the blades).

• Fold over the twisted ends and tuck in the sharp points so they aren't exposed, then bend those ends into curved earpieces.

• Poke the other end of one of the pipe cleaners through the        outside edge of one heart, about two thirds of the way up the side.

• Twist it around the other pipe cleaner, then wrap the ends back around the heart and tuck in the sharp tips.

• Repeat with the other pipe cleaner arm.

• Add a nose bridge by poking a 3-inch section of pipe cleaner      through the inside edge of each heart and twisting it back onto itself.

• The hearts should sit about 1/2 inch apart.

• Make a case for the glasses by sealing a #10 business             envelope and trimming about 3 inches from one end, rounding the corners.

• Write a message on a paper heart and glue it to the envelope.

• Red and pink mold-and-bake clay, such as Sculpey III
• Rolling pin
• Heart-shaped cookie cutter or small knife
• Pencil
• Craft glue
• Aluminum foil
• Index card 
• Scissors
• Clear Con-Tact paper
• Hole punch
• Metal key ring
• Small metal slip rings (available at craft stores)
• Floral wire
• Permanent marker

• Partially blend red and pink clay to create a swirled effect.

• Roll the mixture out to about 1/8-inch thickness.

• Use a heart-shaped cookie cutter (or a small knife; a parent's  job) to cut the clay into a heart.

• Make a small hole about 1/4 inch from the top with the point of a pencil.

• Follow the package directions for baking the clay, then set it aside.

• Glue aluminum foil to both sides of an index card or piece of       cardboard.

• Let dry.

• Then draw an oversize key on the foil and cut it out.

• Cover with clear Con-Tact paper, trim the edges, and punch a hole in the top of the key.

• Attach both small rings to the big key ring.

• Thread the key onto one.

• Connect the clay heart to the other small ring with a loop of floral wire.

• Write a message (such as "The Key to My Heart") on the key with the marker.