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Heart Lion Craft

Roar! Love like a lion this Valentine’s Day with our Heart Lion Craft! A perfect paper craft for the day of love as it’s made of hearts. Plus, for the little ones, it’s a great scissor practice craft, too.

Heart Lion Craft

We’ve made a number of really simple heart-y paper crafts this Valentine’s Day. Our Tweetheart Birds Valentine Craft, Stuck on You Handprint Cactus Cards, and this Origami Heart Bouquet Card just to name a few of our fun paper heart crafts. If you’re looking for another lion craft, we have that covered, too, with this Love Lacing Lion Craft.

Heart Lion Craft

For our Heart Lion Craft you will need cardstock in yellow, orange, red, and brown. As well, you will also need medium googly eyes, a white marker, scissors, and a glue stick.

Heart Lion Craft

Supplies needed:

  • Cardstock – yellow, orange, red, and brown
  • Googly eyes, medium
  • White marker
  • Scissors
  • Glue stick

First, begin by cutting a large circle out of the yellow paper.

Heart Lion Craft

The circle should be as big as you can get from a full sheet of yellow cardstock.

Heart Lion Craft

From this, make about 2” slits all around the circle.

Heart Lion Craft

Then, bend and curl those slits up at random.

Heart Lion Craft

Now cut a large heart out of the orange paper. It should fit in the center of the yellow circle, with plenty left over around the edges.

Heart Lion Craft

Cut a smaller heart out of the red paper for the nose.

Heart Lion Craft

Glue the nose to the larger heart according to the image above.

Heart Lion Craft

You will also need to cut two circles from the orange cardstock. And cut 2 smaller circles from the brown cardstock to fit inside the orange circles.

Heart Lion Craft

Glue the circles to both sides of the heart. You will also need to cut a larger circle from the brown cardstock and glue that behind the heart. Again, see image.

Heart Lion Craft

And glue the hearts to the center of the circle.

Heart Lion Craft

Next, adhere googly eyes.

Heart Lion Craft

Finally, draw lines with the white marker from the nose area.

Heart Lion Craft

And your heart lion is ready to roar into this Valentine’s Day! Be sure to check out more of our fun Valentine’s Day crafts at Our Kid Things!

Heart Lion Craft

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