How to make a heart from paper, dough, programs with their own hands - photo ideas of the most beautiful crafts and homemade gifts

Handicrafts in the form of a symbol of love, happiness and joy will be useful as a souvenir for any holiday: for a birthday, Valentine's Day, New Year and March 8.

You can make an original gift from a lot of materials:

  • paper;
  • fabrics;
  • dough;
  • threads, etc.

Often the gifts are performed in the technique of origami, craftsmen make both flat and three-dimensional gifts. But the main thing is that the heart expresses warm feelings, and often a form of declaration of love.

Paper handicraft

For the simplest of paper crafts requires a minimum of materials:

  • a pencil;
  • ruler;
  • sheets of colored paper;
  • stapler and scissors.

The volume of the future souvenir depends on the size of the paper strips you cut.

Step by step instructions

Let's consider the steps of how to make a heart from paper of different colors.

  1. Step #1. Cut strips (three or four pairs) of the same width, but different in length.
  2. Step #2. Strips of equal length are glued together - first the largest, then the medium, and finally the smallest.
  3. Step #3. We make up heart-shaped pieces from strips.
  4. Step #4. We insert the smaller pieces into the larger ones.
  5. Step #5. Staple the ends of the hearts with a stapler or decorative buttons.

The handicraft made from assembled into a beautiful keepsake hearts are ready.

Valentine

Valentine's Day has recently become one of the most popular holidays. Both children and young people buy gifts for their loved ones and make various souvenirs with their own hands. The most common gift is an originally designed greeting card. In the process of making will be required:

  • cardboard or thick paper;
  • Scissors, tape and threads;
  • felt-tip pens and hole punch;
  • candy of small size.

Consider what is needed to decorate the gift.

The steps of making

It is very easy to make a spectacular souvenir:

  1. According to the template, two identical hearts are cut out of red or pink paper.
  2. On the edges of the hearts, punches are made with a hole punch. Symmetry is easy to observe - you should put one heart on top of another.
  3. Thread the hearts so that a small pocket is formed.
  4. The pocket is filled with chocolate candies and, of course, a note with an expression of feelings.

Elegant gift for the chosen one (beloved) is ready.

Hearts 3D

Another easy-to-make but very original version of the handicraft. For work you will need:

  • a pencil;
  • glue;
  • Scissors and a sheet of pink paper;
  • Templates of hearts of different sizes.

Only three steps

To create a three-dimensional heart, it is necessary to perform only three steps:

  1. Cut out the hearts according to the templates.
  2. At the top of the blanks to make a small cut to the center.
  3. Along the line of the cut, apply glue and fix the edges, giving the heart a 3 D effect.

You only need to hang the hearts around the room and listen to the sound they make from the slightest breeze.

Another volumetric version

Cut out hearts of the same size from paper of different colors (you can use all the colors of the rainbow). The more blanks you have, the more puffy the composition will be. We recommend cutting out ten to twelve pieces.

Place one piece on top of another in a staircase. Secure the blanks between each other with glue. Then we glue the whole composition on cardboard and frame it.

The volumetric rainbow, in the shape of the hearts that make it up, is ready.

A case for little girls

Very often young children tail follows their mothers trying to "help" in household chores. Many young mothers complain, "After such a help, you have to redo everything, and clean up after the child.

It is better to clean up and redo, than to discourage work and grow lazy. Do not turn down such proposals - it's better to train a child to work with small nails, well, to attach the girls to the manufacture of tasty surprises.

Heart of dough

Engage Deed favorite Chado, so it will not twist underfoot and interfere with you. Knead by all the rules of the recipe of rich dough little man can not, but to help mom to make sugar dumplings in the shape of hearts - the sweetest thing.

What a child can do

Once you have prepared the dough according to your favorite recipe, let your little girl do the most interesting thing: shaping the buns.

  1. Tear off a piece of dough and instruct your child to roll a sausage about half a centimeter thick.
  2. Butter it together and "sprinkle" it with granulated sugar or powdered sugar.
  3. Help roll up the sausage into a roll.
  4. Bring the edges of the roll together.
  5. Show how to make an incision and turn the dough to make a heart shape.

 

Important: Praise your child for his help.

In the evening, treating the household to a delicious pastry, be sure to tell them how you and your favorite daughter made the treat!

Heart bag

An elegant gift will undoubtedly please a teenage girl. Before you begin, you should prepare:

  • scissors and threads;
  • stencils (templates);
  • a zipper snake;
  • A piece of leather (leatherette) or a piece of fabric;
  • sewing machine.

Workflow

It is necessary to find an image of a heart on the World Wide Web (you will need two kinds - one slightly larger than the other), print it out and make stencils. Then:

  1. Applies the stencil to the base of the future bag and cut out two blanks.
  2. The same work is done with a smaller template.
  3. From the remaining pieces of base we make a tape-handle.
  4. Machine stitch and connect the two large blanks and the handle - we get the bag.
  5. Just above half of the smaller heart make a neat incision.
  6. Sew in the place of the cut snake-zipper.
  7. With a machine completely stitch on both sides of the smaller blanks, you get a miniature cosmetic bag to store small things.

The end result is a bag and a small cosmetic bag. And both things are heart-shaped!

An added symbol

Modern people spend a significant portion of their lives on various social networks. Using the latest type of communication, leaving comments on this or that message, event, as a rule, users use a variety of symbols indicating joy, sorrow, sadness, outrage, etc. As you know, a person always wants more. He "lacks" a set of standard likes, so in recent times it has become fashionable to set a heart on the keyboard.

There are several ways to install a symbol of joy, love and goodness on your computer or laptop.

Windows 10

The easiest way to install an additional symbol is for owners of this program:

  1. In the menu, you should open the table with symbols.
  2. Then, at the top of the window that appears, find the non-standard icons.
  3. The table should be scrolled, and at the very end of it, find the desired symbol.
  4. Clicking on the symbol, press "Select" and the heart should appear in the input field.
  5. Use the "Copy" button to send the heart to the clipboard.
  6. If you type Ctrl+V while holding down the right mouse button, a new character will be inserted into any text you want.

Other programs

For owners of other versions of Windows, wishing to have a heart symbol, the steps to install it will be as follows - on the keyboard hold down the Alt key while pressing the number 3 (press the three should not be at the top, but the right side of the keyboard).

A heart will begin to appear as you type the Alt+3 combination.

Photo examples of homemade paper hearts

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