Valentine’s Day cards are a great way to show appreciation. Here is a fun one that you can make at home with the help of your parents.

Materials:

• Cardstock paper
• Scrapbook paper or construction paper
• Red construction paper or scrapbook paper for 
• A glass that is roughly 3” round
• Scissors
• Glue
• Yarn or thread
• Clear tape
• Pencil or pen

Steps:

1. Start by making the card base by cutting a sheet of letter sized or 8.5” x 11” sized construction paper in half and then folding that smaller paper in half.
2. Trace the closed card onto the scrapbook paper.
3. Open up the card and align the scrapbook paper with the right side (do not glue! You can however use a paper clip to hold it in place).
4. With the glass, trace the hole on both the card and the scrapbook paper.
5. With the scissors, follow the traced circle and cut out a hole.
6. Set the scrapbook paper aside.
7. For the perfect sizing, trace and cut two red circles.
8. Fold the circles in half (together) and draw a half heart shape.
9. Follow the pattern and cut out the 2 hearts.
10. Apply glue on one of the hearts and lay thread in the middle.
11. Stick the other heart on top.
12. Wait a little for the glue to dry.
13. Place the heart into the hole on the card, position it in the center and secure the thread with some clear tape.
14. Apply glue across the whole surface of the card. Then place the scrapbook paper on top.
15. Wait for the glue to dry.
16. Once dry, open the card and spin the heart a few times (wind the string).
17. Write a fun message to someone special.
18. Wind the heart again and while holding the heart in place, carefully close the card, not letting the heart spin.

When the person you have given the card to opens it, the heart will start spinning!