Nothing makes a house a home, more that DIY holiday projects. If you're getting ready for some Valentine creativeness this weekend, as I am, here are few things that look easy enough to do tomorrow. I hope you enjoy - and Happy Valentine's Day!
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Easy DIY Ideas for Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, which means we have another reason to decorate our homes! Decorating for Valentine’s Day can be a fun daylong activity that you can do with your kids. Making Valentine’s cards, baking sweets and treats, and even just cutting up paper hearts are just a number of things you and the kids can do together.
Here are a few DIY ideas for Valentine’s day. We’ll be doing these to get ready for this lovely holiday.
Conversation Hearts candies in a votive—a simple and sweet Valentine’s Day accent piece
One of the quickest and easiest DIY Valentine’s Day decorations involves just three items: Conversation Hearts candies, a small glass candle votive, and a small candle in the color of your choice. Fill the votive half-way with candy, place a candle on top and light it. Voila! Quick and easy.
One of the quickest and easiest DIY Valentine’s Day decorations involves just three items: Conversation Hearts candies, a small glass candle votive, and a small candle in the color of your choice. Fill the votive half-way with candy, place a candle on top and light it. Voila! Quick and easy.
These would be great on the mantle over your fireplace, on the table runner of your dining table, on the bathroom counter, or even on your coffee table. Feeling a bit fancy? Tie a pink or red bow around the votive. Thank you, Chrissie of Living on Love and Cents for this wonderful idea!
Make and hang paper heart wreaths around your home
Paper crafts are the perfect go-to when decorating for Valentine’s Day, which is why we’re fans of this idea. Making a heart wreath to hang inside your home is fun, quick, and easy (we love easy). All you need is some pink, red and white construction paper or cardstock, or you can use scrapbooking paper.
Use a heart shape hole punch or cut out hearts in various sizes, also cut out a circular base out of cardstock. You’ll be gluing your hearts on this base. Next, glue a layer of hearts on the base and then glue an additional layer of hearts on top of it. Lastly, glue a ribbon on the backside of the wreath and it’s ready to hang. Make more than one Valentine’s Day wreath and hang them outside bedroom doors, hallway walls, or over your fireplace.
Add a bit of flair this Valentine’s Day—or any holiday—with a DIY glitter lantern
via ohhappyday.com
We’ve all heard of a mirror ball, but have you ever heard of a glitter ball, or rather, a glitter lantern? We found this fantastic DIY glitter lantern on ohhappyday.com, a lifestyle and party planning blog based out of San Francisco, California. According to the bloggers, all you need to make your own glitter lantern is: a round paper lantern in the size of your choice, spray glue for glitter (they listed Design Master Glue for Glitter on their blog), glitter, and a drop cloth or newspaper for catching excess glitter. It might be a good idea to do this project in the garage or outside.
Lay open your drop cloth or newspaper on a flat surface. Next, open up the lantern so that it’s in the shape of a globe and spray the glitter glue in patches on the lantern. Start pouring about a handful of glitter on that patch of glue and repeat the process until you’ve reached the optimal level of coverage. Use any excess glitter that fell on your drop cloth or newspaper for any touch ups.
Since this is for Valentine’s Day, a few choice colors for glitter would be red, pink and even white. Hang your glitter lanterns around your patio in clusters or just string a few of them throughout your yard.
via Nap Time Creations
Finally, this is a fun project to enlist the help of the kiddies. Emily of Nap-Time Creations decided to create a “jar o’ sprinkles” using real edible sprinkles and Mod Podge. Her kids participated by adding personalized paper hearts to make an adorable Valentine’s Day bouquet. Here’s what Emily did…
First, Emily painted a thick layer of Mod Podge all over the inside of a glass jar and poured sprinkles all over the inside, making sure to turn the jar so that the inside had even sprinkle coverage. After the Mod Podge dried up and she was sure that the sprinkles weren’t going anywhere, she had the kids paint and personalize a couple paper hearts that she cut out earlier. After the paper hearts were dried, Emily hot-glued the hearts to some skewers, thus completing her bouquet. The results are pretty awesome.
