Use our free heart outlines and simple supplies to make these homemade Valentines — it’s super easy and so much fun! Thanks to Handmade Charlotte for the adorable idea.
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What type of beans should I use for Valentine’s Day bean art?
We used romano beans to make the heart in the tutorial above. We also used chick peas, kidney beans, and yellow whole peas for the other hearts in the photos. There are so many varieties of dried beans, and most of them would work really well to make these Valentines. We recommend larger beans like lima beans, black-eyed peas, or navy beans. You can also use split peas or lentils, but it’s very time consuming to add them onto the cardboard, unless you spread a layer of glue and sprinkle them on.
What Valentine’s Day message can I write on the back of my heart bean art?
We kept it simple, with a straightforward “Happy Valentine’s Day” message, but there are so many fun bean puns you can add to the back of your Valentine. Here’s some of our favourites:
You’re my favourite human bean. Where have you bean all my life? I love you with every fiber of my bean. Bean thinking of you. Will you bean my Valentine? You’re totally cool beans! Thanks for bean such a great friend.
How else can I decorate my Valentine’s Day bean art?
You can see from some of our photos that we glued a pom pom border onto a few of our hearts. It adds such an adorable look to the bean art, almost like a heart shaped doily or a Valentine’s chocolate box! You can also sprinkle glitter onto the mod podge before it dries to add some extra sparkle to your Valentine.
What colours are best for making Valentine’s Day bean art?
We used various colours of acrylic paint on our bean art hearts. For the tutorial above we used red Craft Smart paint, but we used Apple Barrel brand for the rest of the heart mosaics. We used “bright red”, “pure pink”, “light pink”, “orange cream”, and “wisteria” (light purple). Red, pink, and purple are classic Valentine’s Day colours, but you can branch out and use whatever colour (and paint brand!) you like the best.
This heart bean art is so much fun to make, and these DIY Valentine cards look so cute! This Valentine’s Day art project will help younger kids with their fine motor skills, and it also encourages patience as you wait between dry times.
Here’s even more Valentine’s Day craft ideas:
Valentine Gnome
Heart String Art Cards
Glass Bead Heart Suncatcher
Our book Low-Mess Crafts for Kids is loaded with 72 fun and simple craft ideas for kids! The projects are fun, easy and most importantly low-mess, so the clean up is simple!
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