Love From Home Art

Our second day of Love at Home Month we made color-diffused, snowflake-style hearts to send as Love FROM Home Valentines to our missionary. If you like how these look, here's how to do it.

Get a stack of coffee filters. (So cheap! I bought a bulk package at Sam's Club years ago and it's still going strong.)

Fold the filter in half and cut a heart shape like you would with a folded rectangle.

Now fold it back in half, then fold into thirds.

Cut shapes out just like you would when cutting a paper snowflake.

Open it up and, VOILA!

Now for the color! Using Crayola washable markers, color the heart. You can use just a little bit of color here and there, or you can fill it in a little more, depending on the look you want. You do not need to color the entire piece. In fact, don't! The colors will spread in the next step, when you spray the entire thing with water. (And too much of too many colors will just make everything brown.)

Here is a lightly colored example:

Here is a more heavily colored example (don't color more than this):

The colors WILL drip, so either place your creations in a shallow baking pan to spray them or, weather permitting, spray them outside. Use just a spray bottle filled with water. (We just used an old hairspray bottle refilled with water.) Have a towel very nearby to quickly remove the wet hearts to and allow them to dry.

Once dry, you can either tape them to a window for a lovely display or, as we did, affix them to some colored cardstock to make cards and write our Valentine messages.

This is the dried version of the
more heavily colored one above.

Yep, even Dad got in on the action!