Things You'll Need:
- A large piece of white paper
- Smaller pieces of pink, and red construction paper.
- Clear contact
- Crayons
- Markers,
- Stick of glue
- Stickers
- Scissors
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Step 1
Cut the hearts, which are pink and red hearts, big and small, of course, you will want to have hearts of all sizes and shapes because no two hearts are the same. .
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Step 2
Pick up the biggest heart and have the preschooler lay it on a large sheet of white construction paper; position is not important as long as they are fine with it and you have room to add the rest of the hearts. Allow the preschooler to use a stick of glue across the heart and turn it over and lay it on the white paper.
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Step 3
Pick up a heart, hand it to your child, and allow them to glue it and stick it on top of a white paper, do the same with the hearts. You can add hearts of all sizes on this paper place mat and make it truly unique by adding faces to some hearts. Allow them to color in the faces on the hearts when it is dry if they want to.
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Step 4
Allow your preschooler to add Valentines Day stickers and be sure to write his or her name on this white paper. Your preschooler can color on to this paper to make it truly unique and your child could add in a photograph of the child or a favorite pet.
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Step 5
Cut a piece of the clear contact paper and lay it flat on a table sticky side up and lay the Valentine’s Day Heart paper on it upside down and smooth these two together. Cut another piece of clear contact and use it on the back so that your place mat becomes waterproof.
