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Symmetry art: Valentine love hearts

04/02/2015 by Cathy James 6 Comments

Symmetry art is a classic childhood painting activity and it works so well as a Valentine craft. Here’s one of our favourite Valentine ideas, mixing maths and art.Symmetry art Valentine craft for kids - great art and maths lesson! | NurtureStore :: inspiration for kids

Symmetry art: love hearts

To start you’ll need lots and lots of love hearts. We used white card to make ours. Folding the  card in half makes it easier to cut out your shapes, as you’ll want both halves of the heart to be the same size so the symmetry magic works. The children can of course have a go – the hearts can be any size they like.

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Then your hearts are ready to paint.

 

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We decided to go with traditional valentine colours of red and pink.

Time to start adding the colour – and you need to paint on just one half of the heart. (Folding the heart and hiding one side makes it easier to resist the temptation to paint all over at this stage!) You could use paintbrushes, stamps or fingerprints.

 

valentine hearts symmetry

 

Once you’ve painted one side, fold your heart together and gently press to spread the paint inside.

 

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Carefully peel open your heart and ta -da! A magical symmetrical painting appears.

 

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The hearts are wonderful as a project all by themselves but also look great glued onto cards, strung as garlands or fasten a pin on the back and you can wear your heart on your sleeve.

 

valentine craft symmetry art

More lovely Valentine’s Day activities for your children

Did you see all my other Valentine’s Day activities for children? I’ve got more free printables, art, math, science, literacy and play ideas, all with a Valentine theme. You can find them all here.

 

A complete resource of Valentine crafts and activities :: math, science, language, art, craft, play, sensory, recipes

 

Filed Under: All Art, Painting, Symmetry, Valentine's Day

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Comments

  1. MsXpat says

    30/01/2012 at 7:44 pm

    How lovely!

    Reply
  2. Chrissy @ The Outlaw Mom Blog says

    31/01/2012 at 5:23 am

    Beautiful hearts. I love that you call them “love hearts” – when my daughter sees hearts she says, “This is a heart-for-loving” … never just “This is a heart”!

    Reply
    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      31/01/2012 at 9:28 am

      Oh that’s sweet Chrissy. I think I do usually say lovehearts ♥

      Reply
  3. maggy,red ted art says

    01/02/2012 at 1:22 pm

    We love symmetry prints and they look wonderful for Valentine’s!

    Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!

    Maggy

    Reply
  4. Julia says

    05/02/2015 at 12:22 pm

    Love the ideas, so simple but the effect is stunning! Thanks for inspiration!

    Reply
  5. Mihaela @ Best Toys 4 Toddlers says

    07/02/2015 at 6:22 am

    Lovely! Might give it a try this weekend as a quick boredom buster!

    Reply

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