Shaken, not stirred, Painted Hearts

We're kicking off Valentine's Day with some Shaken Painted Hearts.

Idea from Toddler Approved!

This was such a fun no-mess craft to do - with crazy pretty results!

Use some sort of container that you can close up tightly - we just used a box we had lying around.

Cut some paper hearts out of construction/scrapbook paper - we used purple, pink, bright pink and red. I double-sided taped them to the inside bottom of the box.

Dump in some random toys you have lying around that you can clean up easily - or you don't care if they get messy.

Put a few blobs of paint in the box - not on the hearts. We used purple, pink, red and white.

Shut the box - we taped it to seal it up.

shake shake shake

and shake some more.

Open it up - check out your results - shake some more if you like.

Clean up your toys while you're waiting for the hearts to dry.

Once dry, hang them up - we cut slits in the tops and strung a pretty pink ribbon through them and hung them on our mantel. Or you can make cards with them... I thought about it, but already have our cards ready (crazy, huh? I'm ahead of schedule for once!)

We only made 4 this time - but we'll be doing it again and add to our string.

Have fun!