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A Colorful Valentine’s Day Card

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We’re planning ahead for Valentine’s Day. Since it was a gloomy weekend, the kids and I made some melted heart crayons for my first-grader’s Valentine’s Day cards. If you haven’t ever tried this project, it’s simple with great results and is a nice way to recycle broken crayons. We followed the directions from Marie at Make and Takes. The only advice I have is that the brighter colors look much better, so hide the browns, blacks and dark blues from your kids. I also used a knife on one batch to cut the crayons into even smaller bits, which I think worked well.

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I made two versions of this card. One can be used without the crayon in the center, and the other has an open middle to attach the crayon. We used foam adhesive tape to attach the hearts to the cards. Simply click on an image below to download the .pdf file, print it out on card stock and cut. We also used a corner punch to create rounded corners.

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My daughter is going to send the crayons with her own drawing below, which we scanned in and will print out. That way she can decorate them as much as she likes, but if she gets tired of it, they are still done. I’ve got another idea for my five-year-old’s valentines because she really requires that everything be covered in glitter. The teachers will love that.

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113 Replies to “A Colorful Valentine’s Day Card”

  2. Teachers WILL love this! I am a teacher, I know! I loved this idea so much that I’m making these for my students for Valentine’s Day. I’m thinking of attaching the crayons to black and white valentines, so that they can color them in with their new crayon. Thanks for the fabulous idea!

  4. We had already started making the crayon hearts a couple of weeks ago and when I saw this blog post shared by “kind over matter” I new we had to use this printable! Thanks so much for sharing. My daughter’s Kindergarten Valentine’s are going to be so cute. We found cellophane treat bags in the wedding/cake section at Michael’s to put them in.

  5. Thank you so much for the colorful card. My daughter loved making the crayons and putting them on the little cards. She even decorated the backs. Thanks again I gave you credit on my blog 🙂

  7. I love these! I just recently discovered that we could melt down broken crayons and recycle them into big piles of new usable crayons. What a cute Valentine’s day gift. I can’t wait for my daughter to bring this to school.. Everyone is going to love them.
    -Molly
    Antique Jewelry

  9. what kind of cookie cutter did u use? do u have a bunch of same sized heart shaped cookie cutters? woudl love to make this ..please advise

  10. Lovely! Thank you, I need to find some crayons, I now use perfect crayons, they don’t break… but the colors are awesome.

  14. I just made a batch of those. I made mine all one color. I used the heart shaped ice cube trays you can get from Target in the Dollar Spot. I haven’t posted anything about them yet though.

  18. Wow-Thank you so much! I just discovered you and I’m in love! 😉 I was worried the color would not look as cute as the images on here but they are beautiful – so simple and perfect. Thank you for sharing this!

  23. Thanks for these! We made them and I must say, I had to google an idea of HOW in the world to stick the crayons to the cute little Valentine printable! the answer DUCT TAPE! worked like a charm!!

  24. I looked and looked and can’t find the mini heart pan – only ones I found are too big to put on the card. Where can I find the mini heart shape pan? Thanks so much!

  27. Thank you so much for posting the valentine card! I made these crayon hearts awhile ago to give my students for Valentine’s Day but didn’t know what I was going to use for the card. I appreciate you sharing!

  28. the pdf. file for the card, is that standard? meaning, when i went to print it out, the whole sides (yellow) were cut off. also, what did you use to stick the crayon onto the card stock? awesome idea! i love this 🙂

  29. For anyone who is using the silicone molds from Target, are you melting the crayons in them, or melting them and then pouring the wax in? This is such a great idea-thanks for sharing it…again!

  32. how did you get the crayons to attach to the paper….. i can’t seem to figure a way out, they keep falling off the paper?!!?

  34. I used the silicone heart molds from Target and I melted the crayons in the molds in a 250 degree oven. It worked great!

  35. What a wonderful idea! My kids, niece and nephews all enjoyed working on this project together! They’re all so excited to give them out on Valentine’s Day! Thanks so much for sharing your project as well as the printable! <3

  36. OK, THESE ARE AWESOME!!!!!! JUST MADE A BATCH AND THEY LOOK JUST LIKE YOURS! YAHOO!!! THANKS A BUNCH!

  37. This is an awesome idea! Love the fact of recycling crayons…I never know what to do w/the broken ones. Seems such a waste to throw it away when I know they still use them. Thank you for sharing!! =)

  38. These are beautiful! Any chance you’d make a version for us Canadians? “colour”

    Either way, thanks for the template!

  39. Thank you so much for sharing this! I was planning to do the homemade crayons but could not come up with what to put it on. This is perfect. We took some already to my daughters music class and the moms flipped out over how cute it was!

  40. I’m having trouble with the pdf’s They keep chopping off the left side of the hearts, even when I scale the image down to 95%. Anyway you could repost the pdf in standard printing size? Maybe even 6 to a page? Thanks so much!

  43. Thanks for the print out card! Did them with my kids this year for valentines day. However we did use the darker colors, and created camo hearts to give to the boys. My son loved it since it was much less girly!

  44. Thank you! Last minute as usual! We were lucky and found a pan with 24 molds so we only had to make one pan and we were done!!!!!

  45. Thanks for the great valentines day!!! I made a couple of these for my son’s cousin’s!! THANKS for the printable!!!! GREATLY appreciate it!!

  46. I just pinned this to pinterest and it used your picture. I love the idea! I will gladly remove it if you would like for me to and I apologize in advance. I linked it directly back to your site.

  48. I love this idea and I love the template! However just wondering
    If you can make a black and white one where the kids can colour in the hearts? I don’t have a colored printer:(

  50. Thanks so much for the idea i really want to do this for my class and friends i think they would love it!! Thanks again!!!

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