400+ Valentine Craft Tutorials To Make Now

Whether you celebrate Valentines Day, or Galentines Day or prefer to throw an Anti-Valentines Day commiseration party instead, this bumper list of tutorials has got you covered.

Red Ted Art have a simple tutorial for making roses out of paper towels.

 

Idea Stand have a huge list of 70 tutorials to make valentines gifts and decor from mason jars.

These wool hearts by Aunt Peaches are simple and adorable.

Personal Creations have a big list of 75 Valentines Day crafts you can make with your kids.

Head over to Life As Mom for instructions to make these simple salt dough candle holders.

88 Home Decor have 88 tutorials for outdoor Valentines Day decorations.

Try Me and B Make Tea for the recipe to create these adorable Bee Mine Oreo cookies.

Need a card? Willow Day has a tutorial to make this magical Unicorn Valentine card.

Head over to Blue Bear Wood for the how to on these little wool heart decorations.

Wohh Wedding have a list of 25 valentines gifts you can make for men. I mean it says men but there's no law saying you can't make these for women or non-binary genders too. Have at it.

Prefer to celebrate Anti-Valentines Day instead? Check out Wild Amor and make these amazing anti-love heart magnets.

Try Country Living's list of 42 crafts to make for everyone on your Valentine's list.

Pop over to Hative for 30 craft ideas to try for Valentines Day.

There's a great tutorial over at Pillar Box Blue to make these beautiful map roses.

Frugal Coupon Living have a list of 28 easy Valentines Day foods to make.

DIY Joy have a lovely collection of easy gifts to make, including these stunning leather love hearts.

And finally our very own Half-Arsed Crafts tutorials for making Valentines crafts out of air dry clay.

If you try any of these tutorials leave a comment to let us know how you get on!





Valentines Crafts Using Air Dry Clay

Valentines Day is just a few weeks away so here's a couple of easy gifts you can make using air dry clay.

You will need:

Air Dry Clay
Silicone molds (or stamps or lace - anything you can make a pattern with)
Heart shaped cookie cutters
Rolling pin (I just use the cardboard tube from a roll of foil)
Clay modelling tools (I just used a toothpick instead)
String or thin ribbon
Acrylic paint (if you decide to paint them)

Heart Bunting 

Roll out your clay. If you're using a mold lay it on top then roll over it a few times. Peel it off the mold.

If you don't have a silicone mold you can put lace or leaves or whatever you like over the top of the clay and roll over it to leave a pattern.

Position your cookie cutters over the clay. I put them randomly so each heart would have a different pattern on it.

Use a toothpick or straw to cut out holes for the string.

Leave to dry for about 24 hours (less if you live in a hot country). Turn over once or twice so both sides dry out.

You can paint them with acrylic if you want, I couldn't be bothered ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Heart Hanging Pocket

I love these hanging wall pockets that are all over Pinterest. I especially liked these ones by A Shade of Teal

To make some heart shaped wall pockets, you will need the same tools and materials as for the heart garland.

Roll out some clay. I wanted a faux wooden effect so used a wood effect embosser for icing cakes. I can't remember where I got mine from (it's probably in an earlier post) but you can buy something similar here.

Cut out a heart shape using the largest cookie cutter. I then used this shape as a rough guide to cut out the top piece.

Lay the top piece over the heart shape and using wet fingers, smoosh the edges together. I sort of pinch and smooth to get the edges to meet neatly.

Keep smoothing and smooshing until the sides are completely joined.

Use a straw or toothpick to poke two holes for the string.

I wedged a rotary cutter in mine to help it keep the pocket shape as it dries.

 I painted it with some watered down green acrylic then wiped off the excess with some paper towel.

Thread some string through and put a tiny faux plant in it (or whatever else you can find that fits).

I painted a few hearts I had left over from making the bunting too. Haven't decided what to do with these yet though. Let me know your ideas!