How to Make Cookie Cutter Valentines

Use cookie cutters in a variety of ways to add to your valentines.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Ribbons
• Cellophanes
• Fabrics
• Glues
• Cookie Dough And Mix
• Heart-shaped Cookie Cutters
• Plastic Bags
• Scissors
• Pencils
• Card Stock
• Construction Paper
• Felt-tip Pens
• Hole Punchers
• Plastic bags

1. Assemble a selection of various sizes of heart-shaped cookie cutters.

2. Use the cookie cutters as stencils. Trace them to create perfect hearts on your valentines. This is a good method for children who have difficulty drawing hearts.

3. Try tracing a large heart and progressively smaller hearts inside it with different colored pens or markers.

4. Trace the hearts on several layers of colored paper or fabrics and glue them on top of one another on your card to give the card depth.

5. Create your own sugar-cookie or chocolate-chip-cookie mix. Measure some into plastic bags. Write baking instructions on a heart-shaped piece of paper or card stock. Punch a hole in the corner of the instructions. Attach the instructions and a heart-shaped cookie cutter to the bag with red and pink ribbon. Give these wonderful packages as gifts to all of your valentines.

6. Glue an attractive heart-shaped cookie cutter onto a card. Cookie cutters with handles or scalloped edges are particularly nice for this. Decorate the rest of the card.

7. Use a heart-shaped cookie cutter as a frame for a decorated cookie valentine. Bake some heart-shaped cookies. Decorate the cookies with Valentine's Day messages. Place each cookie inside a heart-shaped cookie cutter and wrap in cellophane. Decorate the package with ribbons. Giving a valentine cookie this way helps protect the cookie from breaking during transport.