Kid’s Mini Valentine Postcards
January 17, 2012 2:00 am Mina Cardmaking, Crafts, Holidays, Kid's Crafts, Paper Crafts, Printables, Projects, Valentine's Day
By General Crafts Contributor Mina, from the blog Mina’s Journal.
Here’s something for the little ones – cute wee Mini Valentine Postcards for the kids to give out at school or preschool. Not too lovey-dovey. Just print onto paper or a card and trim along the outer lines.
Write who it’s to, who it’s from and the year on the back. There is room for a message too.
You Will Need:
Optional
- double sided adhesive,  foam dots or tape
- ribbons
- coloured craft paper
- card blanks
- cardboard
Valentine’s Day Card Ideas
Use these Mini Valentine Postcards as a card topper for larger cards by sticking them onto card blanks. You can make your own card blanks by just folding a piece of card in half.
Paste rectangular pieces of colored craft paper to use as mats. Paste them onto the card blank before the topper.
Print out the page of extra Valentine Day images to make a range of other cards. Cut loosely around them and position them on your cards. Use double sided foam dots or tape to make the images pop out. If you don’t have any – just use small bits of thick cardboard.
Add embellishments like ribbon, beads or buttons.
Click on photo to view Kid’s Mini Valentine Postcards image
Click on photo to view Extra Valentine Images
All of the cards you see in this post was made with two card downloads and one extra images to print. There are plenty of images left over.
Valentine’s Day History
There are two popular stories about how Valentine’s Day came about. One says that Valentine was a priest in the time of the great Emperor Claudius the Second during the third century. Claudius, wanting his army to grow better and larger decreed that young men could not marry. Valentine did not agree with this and performed marriage ceremonies in secret. He was found out and put to death. The other story says that Valentine was a prisoner who fell in love with his jailor’s daughter and wrote a note to her signed ‘Your Valentine’.
Happy crafting!
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