This Heart Tree Craft is all about creating something beautiful, colorful, and full of meaning! With just construction paper, glue, and scissors, kids can design their own tree of love, decorated with bright, cheerful hearts instead of leaves.
This is the perfect Valentine’s Day craft for kids of all ages, but honestly, it works anytime you want to spread love and kindness. Whether you’re making it at home, in the classroom, or as part of a themed kindness project, this craft is simple, fun, and a great way to work on fine motor skills.
Why You’ll Love This Craft
- Great for all ages – Toddlers can stick on hearts, while older kids can design cool patterns.
- Perfect for Valentine’s Day – A creative way to celebrate love, friendship, and kindness!
- Great scissor practice – Cutting out hearts helps kids develop fine motor skills.
- Beautiful keepsake – These trees make great gifts, decorations, or even classroom displays.
Materials You’ll Need
- Construction paper (various colors for hearts + brown for the tree trunk)
- Scissors (for cutting hearts and tree shape)
- Glue stick
- Heart lever punch (optional but fun!)
How to Make a Heart Tree Craft
- Use brown construction paper to cut out a tree trunk with a several branches. Keep it simple for little kids or add lots of branches for older ones. Kids can freehand the trunk or use a template if needed. Find my tree templates here.
- Cut out hearts from red, pink, purple, and any other fun colors. We used every color of the rainbow If you have a heart lever punch, this part is even easier (and extra fun for kids)!
- Have kids glue the hearts onto the branches, just like leaves on a tree. Let them overlap, mix colors, and create fun patterns to make their trees unique!
- Optional: Use markers to draw a little heart-shaped hole in the tree trunk. Write a kind message or name on the tree to make it personal.
- Hang them up on the fridge, wall, or in the classroom for a bright and cheerful Valentine’s display!
Fun Variations to Try
- Watercolor Background – Paint a soft sky or sunset behind the tree for an extra dreamy effect.
- Heart Tree Cards – Fold paper in half and turn this into a homemade Valentine’s Day card.
- Seasonal Trees – Try this craft in fall with orange & yellow hearts, or spring with pastel hearts!
Play2Learn Toddler & Preschool Programs for Curious Toddlers
There is no limit to your toddler’s energy and curiosity. That energy and curiosity although a joy can be challenging at times. Their interest in just about everything around them is what makes them great learners. One and two year olds can soak up so much just from their senses!
But as a teacher or parent that thirst for learning can be exhausting. That is why I created this toddler and preschooler program. To help you get the most out of this time with your curious toddler without having to come up with creative ways to play and interact with them.
Play2Learn for Toddlers includes 20 Units for toddlers. Each 2-week toddler unit has 20 super easy to set up and engaging activities for toddlers 18 months to 3 years.
Play2Learn Preschool which includes 20 Units for preschoolers. Each 2-week preschoolers unit has 20 unique and easy to set up and engaging activities for preschoolers 3 years to 5 years. That’s over 800 learning activities for your toddler and preschooler at your fingertips! So many ideas you and your child will never be bored again!
These toddler and preschool lesson plans and activities will definitely keep you and your toddler and preschooler busy playing and learning!
Click here for more information: Play2Learn
Book: Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids
Did you know I wrote a book of sensory bins? Click here for more information Exciting Sensory Bin for Curious Kids. Or grab your copy at Amazon.
Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count.
Designed for toddlers 18 months and up.
Book: Super STEAM Activity Book for Kids
Learning all about science, technology, engineering, art, and math sets kids up for scholastic success―and it can be so much fun! Watch kids enjoy building STEAM skills as they color friendly fish, help water find its way to tree roots, solve math problems with mazes, and more.
Find out more and grab your copy here.
Designed for preschoolers 3 years old and up.
Book: Big Book of Riddles for Kids
Riddle me this: What’s an exciting way to practice critical thinking while having a blast? The Big Riddle Book for Kids, of course! From hilarious puns to tough brain teasers, kids can build problem-solving skills with hundreds of riddles tha. t show them how to think outside the box.
- 350 riddles for kids—Have hours of fun with riddles, puns and jokes, and math and logic puzzles that’ll get their wheels turning!
- Level up their skills—Riddles get trickier as kids progress through the book, challenging them as they get better at solving puzzles!
- Double-check their work—Kids can check their answers in the back of the book with a handy answer key.
Help children expand their minds while having fun with this puzzle book for kids!
Designed for kids ages 6 years old and up.
TV Show: Curious Crafting
I’m so excited to share my crafting TV show Curious Crafting which launched in July 2022 on TVOkids and TVOkids YouTube! Season 2 aired in August 2023! My show was also nominated in 2023 for Best Live Action Preschool Series by the Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence.
Curious Crafting Season 1 is also now airing in Australia on ABC! Watch it here!
Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. I lead a rotating cast of adorable little preschoolers (including my own) making magic out of common household objects.
In each episode we transform recycled items into magical crafts like a milk carton school bus, paper bag puppet or cotton pad turtle. The crafters learn and laugh their way through each activity while demonstrating what their young imaginations can create.
Curious Crafting shares the adventure and joy of making art with takeaway lessons for creating crafts at home.
This show designed for toddlers and preschoolers 2.5 years old and up.
