At Paper-Crafts.org you will be guided through various tips on Valentine Paper crafts. Valentine's Day is February 14th, be prepared with these fun and romantic ideas for easy Valentines Day homemade projects and crafts to make the day special for your valentine sweetie. Take red construction paper and cut up a bunch of little Valentine's Day cards and write "I Love You", "Be My Valentine" etc. and hide them in places where your sweetie is sure to find them. It is always best to give gifts from the heart. It is even better if it is a gift from the heart in the shape of a heart and made for Valentine’s Day. Here are some ideas for Valentine’s Day crafts for superior populace. A valentine trivet is a fun craft idea. All you need is a 6 inch square white tile, small mosaic tiles, (3/8 inch or ½ inch) in any color you choose, but you should have either red or pink tiles to make a heart in the center of the tile. You’ll need about 80 mosaic tiles for the heart and about 65 mosaic tiles to fill the area outside the heart. You will also need tile adhesive, premixed tile grout, a piece of cardboard (as wide as the tile at least), a sponge, a fine-point permanent marker, four small, round pieces of felt, and a piece of paper.
Before you can begin to make your trivet, you must first make a heart design to trace onto the center of the tile. To do this, take a piece of paper, fold it in half and cut a half a heart shape about five inches long and about two inches wide at the widest part, along the center fold of the paper. When the paper is opened, it should fit within the tile nicely, leaving some space on the outer edges. Center the heart- shaped paper on the tile and trace around it with the marker. Glue the red or pink mosaic tiles inside the heart shape design on the larger tile. Try to space the tiles evenly. When the inside is filled, glue the other color tiles outside of the heart. When the tile glue is dry, spread the grout over the mosaic tiles by covering it with grout and then scraping off the excess with the piece of cardboard. Wipe off the excess grout with a damp sponge. Then let the grout dry for a couple of days. You may have to wipe the finished product off again after it dries in order to get rid of any residue left on top of the mosaics. To finish your trivet, put small, round felt pieces in the four corners of the trivet on the back side.
Another Valentine’s Day craft for senior citizens is a valentine mosaic flower pot. Materials that are needed include: an 8 inch clay pot, ½ inch mosaic tiles, pre-mixed tile grout, sponge, tape, pencil, six inch piece of florist clay, artificial flowers, paper, craft stick, and a fine-tipped permanent marker. On the paper, make a heart pattern by folding the paper in half and cutting a half a heart on it. Open the paper and see if the size of the heart fits against the side of the clay pot and if it looks the way you will want it to look. If not, trim the heart pattern or try again with another piece of paper. When you get the heart shape that you want, trace the pattern onto the pot. After you have placed the heart(s) on the pot, glue the pink tiles, spaced evenly within each heart until the space is filled, then glue all outside areas with the white tiles until the space is filled. After the glue is dry, spread the grout across all the mosaic tiles with the craft stick and wipe off the excess with a sponge, rinsing the sponge as needed. When the grout is dry after few days, push the florist clay into the pot and insert artificial flowers for a lovely Valentine’s Day centerpiece. For more on Paper crafts visit our other pages at Paper-Crafts.org.
