I really wanted to make Valentines Day cards for our loved ones this year. We have been working a lot on expressing gratitude and focusing on other people this month so making cards telling people why we love them is right up that alley!

Items Needed for the Valentines Day Card Craft:

Glitter
Glue
Colored Rice
Crayons

When it came time to do this craft Livia was just finishing up messing around in the Valentines Day sensory bin. Usually once we are done playing around in them the rice ends up in the garbage. As I pulled out our recycling craft bin she chimed in and reminded me that rice could also be recycled. I love the mind of that little girl! If you ask me I think it is quite brilliant!

So we cleaned out all the pom-poms, scoop cups, Popsicle sticks, and glitter streamers. The way the cards turned out is absolutely adorable!

To make the rice split a bag of rice into three zip-lock baggies, added a couple drops of red, pink, and purple food dye into the bags, a dash of vinegar into each bag, and a couple drops of rose essential oil into each zip-lock. If they had chocolate I would have totally done that, but I couldn’t find anything similar so went with the next best Valentines Day smell…roses!

Valentines Day Card

Make it, play with it, then recycle it into this adorable sensory rice card!

Ingredients

Colored Rice
Cardstock Paper
Glue
Glitter
Crayons

Instructions

Fold the paper into a card
Have the child write their message on the front of the card
Take the glue and draw out your heart shapes
Cover the card with colored rice and dump it off. Repeat until all the glue is covered.
Take the glue and draw designs on the card-cover with glitter.
Allow to drive, write a message inside, and send off to the person you love!