Create your own Valentine’s Day decoration, a paper heart chain!

Materials: 

  • paper (any color you like)
  • scissors
  • stapler

Step 1: start by turning your paper long ways and beginning to fold it accordion style a little less than an inch wideA picture containing text, stationary, envelope

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Step 2: Keep folding your paper

Step 3: unfold your paper
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Step 4: Cut out your strips of paper

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Step 5: take one strip and fold it in half
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Step 6: bend the flaps down so it creates a heart shape. This is the beginning of your paper heart chain!

Step 7: take another folded flap and place it over the bottom of your first heart shape. Staple the bottom closed to hold it together.

Step 8: Keep folding down your flaps and stapling the new strips to the bottom to form more hearts. 

Step 9: Add as many hearts as you’d like! Each one is unique. 

Congratulations on completing your paper heart chain! Let us know in the comments how many hearts you added to your chain.