Summer Boost
Activity:
Valentine Bookmark
Valentine bookmarks make reading lovely! Make a valentine bookmark that looks like a heart-filled bookworm. Help your child fall in love with books with this valentine bookmark. Perfect for bookworms and soon-to-be-bookworms, this valentine bookmark craft is a fun and quick boredom buster for any weekend.
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What You Need:
- 1 big foam heart
- 8 small foam hearts
- 2 tiny foam hearts
- Wiggle eyes
- Glitter glue
- Pipe cleaner
- Scissors
What You Do:
- Have your child glue the eight small hearts in a row, overlapping each heart slightly.
- Let her flip the row of glued hearts over.
- Help her glue the big foam heart at one end of the row. This will be her bookworm's head!
- Have her glue two wiggle eyes onto the front of the big heart.
- Let her use scissors to cut off two short antennae from the pipe cleaner. A good suggested length for each antennae is two inches long.
- Have your child glue the antennae to the back of the bhookworm's head.
- For the finishing touch, let her glue two hearts to the top of the pipe cleaner antennae. Now all she needs is a good book to put her Valentine bookmark in!
