These pretty Pipe cleaner Heart flowers are a perfect handmade gift for someone special! With just a few colourful pipe cleaners and a little creativity, you can twist and bend your way into making cute heart shaped flowers in a matter of a few minutes.
These pipe cleaner heart flowers for preschoolers, kindergarten and elementary kids are a fun way to engage them creatively while boosting their fine motor skills and teaching them the simple concept of symmetry.
Easy Pipe Cleaner Heart Flowers Craft For Kids
These heart-shaped blossoms make for a lovely handmade gift for Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day besides being a fun classroom craft activity.
All you need are basic craft supplies you likely already have at home. Let’s grow some heart-shaped happiness together!
Supplies
- Pipe cleaners
- Pencil
- Craft paper
- Glue
- Scissors
Step-by-Step By Instructions
Step 1: Take a red pipe cleaner and twist it around a pencil.
Step 2: Slide the pencil gently to get a nicely curled pipe cleaner spiral. Make two of these.
Step 3: Next, take another pipe cleaner and slide it through one spiral. Then bend the pipe cleaner to make a V shape and slide the other spiral onto the pipe cleaner.
Step 4: Bend the pipe cleaner so as to make a heart shape.
Step 5: Twist the free end of the pipe cleaner on its length to make a heart shaped flower.
Step 6: Take a small section of green craft paper and fold it. Using a pencil draw a leaf shape on it and cut it out.
Step 7: Now a small section of green pipe cleaner and twist it around the leaf cutout.
Step 8: Finally, wrap the green pipe cleaner with the leaf onto the pipe cleaner heart flower to complete the craft!
Easy-peasy, wasn’t it! Make these flowers in different colours to make a bouquet of heart shaped flowers. Gift them to your friends for friendship day as a handmade DIY gift.
Related: Pair these heart shaped blooms with Bright Handprint Sunflower Craft!
This fun craft is perfect for preschool and kindergarten children who love to make pipe cleaner crafts. Perfect for the classroom and home, these lovely heart shaped flowers are sure to add magic to your crafting session.
