One of the most popular paper craft items people like making is paper hearts. We all know what paper hearts look like. A paper heart consists of pink or red paper that has been cut into a heart shape with a jagged edge that forms an open-top where you can put things inside it.
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, now is the perfect time for people who want to start crafting paper hearts at home.
Paper Heart Crafts
Here are some must-try paper heart crafts, especially this Valentine’s Day:
1. Pumpkin Paper Heart Garland
The paper heart shapes can be used as a garland and look great strung up in any location. They could also be used as decorations for table settings or handed out to an audience at a presentation.
2. Snowman Paper Heart Craft
Use the paper hearts to make cute snowmen by giving them faces with pens and attaching arms made of twigs. You can also form happy snowflakes by using scissors to cut out paper hearts of different sizes and attaching paper strings as if they’re falling from the sky.
3. Heart Paper Cages
Cute paper cage ornaments can be made with paper heart shapes. They will look great hanging at home, decorating a houseplant, or displayed in an office area for colleagues to admire during their lunch break.
4. Heart Paper Tree Decorations
Paper hearts can be used to make paper trees. The paper trees are easy to make because each paper heart is folded in half to create a three-dimensional shape.
5. Folded Paper Hearts Garland
This cute garland is made of folded paper hearts. To make the paper hearts, paper is first cut into heart shapes and then folded at the two lower corners until they meet in the middle under the paper’s original point.
6. Heart Paper Garlands
These paper garlands are simple to make and can be hung in a child’s bedroom or at a reception desk to brighten up the place.
7. Paper Heart Roses
Depending on the paper folding pattern used, paper hearts can be very intricate or simple shapes. You can also create roses out of paper hearts!
8. Heart-shaped Votive Candle Holders
The paper hearts for these cute votive candle holders can be cut out in different colors so that they look like flower petals when viewed from one side and like paper snowflakes when viewed from the other.
9. Mini Paper Hearts Basket
These cute mini baskets make paper crafts simple for children to make and will look great hanging up in their bedrooms or displayed at home for family and friends to admire.
10. Paper Heart Brooches
The paper heart is simple, but it makes for the cutest papercraft. All you need is a paper, pencil, and some chenille stems (pipe cleaners) to make these paper heart brooches.
11. Heart Paper Plate Decoration
When paper plates are decorated with paper hearts like this one, they can be used to carry around small snacks at parties or hung up in the kitchen when nobody is using them.
12. Decorated Paper Heart Garland
This paper garland is decorated with paper hearts attached with paper string to make it look like they are hanging down from the paper garland.
13. Heart-shaped Lanterns for Valentine’s Day
These paper lanterns can be decorated with painted or paper hearts cut out in various paper colors to look like paper flowers.
14. Paper Heart Banner
In paper crafting, a paper heart banner is constructed from many cut-out paper hearts strung together. Paper banners are typically hung from walls and doorways using string or tape.
15. Triangular Paper Heart Ornament
This paper heart ornament is decorated with paper cut into triangles and circles before the paper string is used to attach them together.
16. Heart-shaped Gift Boxes
Paper gift boxes like this look great hanging up on walls for Valentine’s Day, birthdays, or other special occasions where gifts may be handed out. Paper gift boxes can be decorated with paper cut into heart shapes, or paper hearts embedded in paper cut into triangle shapes.
17. Origami Heart Pencil Case
This Origami-style paper heart pencil case looks great sitting in desk drawers at work and can be decorated with paper hearts of all contrasting colors for maximum cuteness!
18. Paper Vine Wreath
This paper decoration looks great hanging on any door, wall, or fence and can be decorated with paper flowers made out of paper cut into triangular shapes.
19. Brightly Colored Paper Banner
The perfect decoration for a child’s bedroom door or wall during Valentine’s Day — this brightly colored paper heart banner looks great when decorated with paint, paper cut into paper hearts, or paper cut into triangular shapes!
20. 3D Paper Heart Garland
This piece of paper craft looks great hanging on walls, windows, and doorways during Valentine’s Day and can be decorated with scrapbooking paper hearts, stenciled designs, or paint.
21. Cute Paper Pom-poms
These paper decorations look great hanging on walls, windows, or ceiling fans and can be decorated with paper cut into shapes, paint, or scrapbooking paper accents.
22. Paper Heart Garland With Paper Flower Accents
Decorating a bedroom, hallway, or dining room wall is easy when paper decorations like this paper heart garland are used!
23. Paper Wreath in Heart Shape
A paper decoration that can be used all year round, this paper wreath is the perfect decoration for the front door during Valentine’s Day.
24. Heart-shaped Bag
This is a neat papercraft that you can use to make paper bags using scraps of paper. The heart-shaped seal looks cute, too!
25. Paper Heart Greetings Card
Cut paper heart shapes from different colors of paper and have your child write a message, draw a picture, or decorate the paper hearts.
Conclusion
As paper hearts are very easy to make, you can make paper hearts for your loved ones. These paper hearts are not just easy but also cheap. That means paper heart craft is an economical gift too. Revisit us for more paper heart crafts tutorials!