Decorate your house with Love this Valentines Day, with this easy DIY Heart sign made with Popsicle Sticks. The red glitter heart gives such a POP of color on the black and white striped background, that you’d never even know it was made with a kids craft supply. In fact, this DIY Valentine sign is so easy, the kids can help make one too!
I am certainly not anti-V Day, but I’ve also never been a huge fan of it when it comes to crafting. Usually I’m so crafted out after Christmas, that come Valentines I just don’t have the mojo for it. Last year I managed to make these cute Valentine Gnomes, but this year is totally different! I don’t know if its the craziness of last year, which which spilled over into this year or what, but I am gung-ho hearts galore and it starts with this easy Valentine Glitter Heart sign!
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A friend gave me 2 huge boxes of tongue depressors, and if you’ve ever seen them (besides in your mouth at the doctor), they are really just giant popsicle sticks! If you can’t get your hands on some tongue depressors (because seriously, who can!?), you can just grab some actual giant popsicle sticks at any craft store, or you could even use paint sticks.
Lets make our Valentines Day Heart Sign!
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Supplies Needed to Make an Easy Valentine Red Glitter Heart Sign
- Giant popsicle sticks
- Black and white paint
- Red glitter paper
- String or twine
- Small beads- I used Red and white pony beads, and Alphabet beads
- Ribbon of your choice- I used a thin Buffalo Check, burlap with lace, and red sheer
- Glue gun
How to Make a Valentines Red Glitter Heart Sign with Popsicle Sticks
Follow the below easy steps to make a beautiful Red Glitter Heart Valentines Day sign!
Paint the popsicle sticks
You could make your sign whatever size you like, but for mine I painted 7 black sticks (5 horizontal and then 1 on each side), and 4 white.
Make the backing and “frame”
Line up the popsicle sticks, and then flip them over and glue plain sticks across the others to act as a brace to hold them together. I glued one on each side for extra support.
Now flip the backing over so its right side up, and glue a black popsicle stick on each side to make a “frame”.
Make the Red Glitter Heart
Trace the heart shape onto the back of red glitter paper and cut it out. If you happen to have a Cricut machine, you could cut one out of red vinyl just as well. I like to keep my crafts easy and affordable to red glitter paper and old school scissors it is for me!
Make an easy scrap ribbon bow
This bow is so easy that it really doesn’t even deserve to be called a bow. You literally just a cut a few strips of ribbon in coordinating colors, layer them on top of each other, and tie a piece of twine around the center. You can dovetail the ends to give it a more polished look if you like too.
Put the Valentines Heart Sign together
Glue the red glitter heart to the front of your popsicle stick frame, and glue the little ribbon on as decoration. You could put it wherever you like, but I thought it looked cute on the top of the heart, tilted ever so slightly.
If you have the lettered beads, or even any other sort of letters like scrabble tiles, glue the word “L-O-V-E” across the bottom.
Make the bead hanger
String some beads onto a piece of twine, and glue the ends to the back of the sign using a generous amount of hot glue.
And there you have it! A cute and easy DIY Valentine Sign with a red glitter heart, made with you guessed it…..popsicle sticks!
What do you think? Don’t you just love the way the Red Glitter Heart *POPS* on the black and white striped background?! This is such a fun and easy Valentines Craft, but really, this could be used year round if you like this color in your everyday decor.
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