Craft Stick Love Arrows With Valentine’s Day Love Messages!
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With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, why not show your affection for your sweetheart by making these adorable Craft Stick Love Arrows? They’re easy to make and can be customized with loving (and punny) Valentine’s Day sentiments!
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Craft Stick Love Arrows
The full list of materials, tools, and instructions is in the printable tutorial card at the end of this post. I highly recommend reading the blog post all the way through before starting this project to ensure that you have everything required and understand the steps and timings involved.
Valentine’s Day is an excuse to get out all of your red and pink craft supplies and make cute projects with hearts, flowers, and all things related to love!
If you’re looking for an easy craft to make with your kids or even with your partner (a crafting date night would be a lot of fun!) then shoot these love arrows to the top of your list.
This simple Valentine’s Day craft would be an awesome project for kids to make for their classmates too.
Using very simple craft supplies – wooden craft sticks, paint, and felt hearts – you can have a whole quiver of craft stick love arrows ready in around 30 minutes!
Download our free printable love messages to cut out and stick to the side of each arrow, or print out your own for some truly personal sentiments for your sweetheart.
Read on for all the details!
Materials & Tools Used in This Craft
For your convenience, I’ve linked [some of] the materials and tools needed for this project to Amazon below. The quantities are on the craft tutorial card at the end of this post.
- Jumbo Popsicle Sticks/Craft Sticks
- Felt Heart Stickers
- Acrylic Craft Paints
- Paintbrush – this is a set of paintbrushes of various sizes and types for different types of paint and glue.
- Glue Stick – or you could use:
- Roller Glue Tape – which I find less messy!
- Scissors
- Craft Stick Valentines Love Arrows Printable – click to download the free PDF which you can print on either US Letter or A4 paper sizes. Opens in a new tab
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Cheap Craft Supplies
This can be a budget-friendly craft using supplies you may already have or that can be purchased cheaply in stores:
If you’re in the USA, check out your local Dollar Store or Dollar Tree; and if you’re in the UK, the Poundshop, The Range, Wilko, and Baker Ross are great places to shop for cheap and inexpensive craft supplies.
To the rest of the world reading this, unfortunately, I don’t know every cheap store out there – sorry! But please do hunt the ones out in your location for crafting bargains!
How Do I Make Craft Stick Valentines Love Arrows?
The printable tutorial card with the full supplies list and instructions can be found at the end of this post.
Step 1 – Paint: Basecoat 10 jumbo craft sticks with white, red, and pink acrylic craft paint. Set them aside to dry, and apply a second coat if necessary.
TIP! You can use washable markers, crayons, or even colored pencils to color the jumbo craft sticks instead of paint.
Step 2 – Layer Heart Stickers: Lay out two large red heart stickers and one medium red heart sticker onto your work surface, then lay two medium white hearts on top of the red hearts, and a small white heart on top of the medium red heart.
Peel back the liner paper and attach the white hearts to the red hearts. Do not remove the backing from the red hearts yet!
Repeat with pink and red hearts, then white and pink hearts.
TIP! Mix and match the colors to create your own unique combinations.
Step 3 – Attach Hearts to Sticks: Peel the backing paper from the first large, layered heart and attach it to the end of a painted craft stick. Repeat with the second large, layered heart, overlapping the pointed end. This creates the feather end of the arrow.
Peel the backing paper from the medium layered heart and attach it to the opposite end of the craft stick to create the arrow point.
TIP! If working with young kids, an adult may have to assist in the peeling of the sticker.
Step 4 – Attach Hearts to Back: Flip the arrow over and attach two large and one medium heart (in matching color) to the back of the layered hearts, covering the sticker adhesive to give a clean finish.
Step 5 – Add Messages: Download and print the Valentine’s Day love messages and cut out the individual messages with scissors. Use your glue of choice to attach the messages to the front of the arrow.
TIP! You can create your own sayings to print and stick to the arrows. You can also write them on using a marker pen, or, if you have the know-how, cut sentiments from vinyl using a Cricut or other cutting machine.
More Craft Stick Crafts
We love using popsicle sticks/craft sticks in crafts! If you love using them too, here are a few more for you to try:
- Cute Popsicle Stick Unicorn Craft For Unicorn-Obsessed Kids!
- Craft Stick Turkey Craft for Kids!
- DIY Heart Wreath Sign Craft for Valentine’s Day
I’ve shared lots of great craft ideas on The Purple Pumpkin Blog over the years, in fact, there are 100+ crafts to make and do at home for you to try!
More Valentine’s Day Crafts To Try
- Valentine’s Day Craft – Embroidery Hoop LOVE Wall Hanging
- Valentine’s Day Gnome Craft + Free Printable Template
- How To Make Layered Hearts Valentines Soap Bars
Printable Craft Stick Valentines Love Arrows Tutorial Card
To save ink, any demonstration photos on the tutorial card do not print.
Craft Stick Love Arrows for Valentine's Day
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, why not show your affection for your sweetheart by making these adorable Craft Stick Valentines Love Arrows?
Materials
- 10 Jumbo Craft Sticks
- Felt Heart Stickers
- Acrylic Craft Paint – White, Red, Pink
- Craft Stick Valentines Love Arrows Printable
Tools
- Paintbrush
- Roller Glue Tape or Glue Stick
- Scissors
Instructions
- Basecoat 10 jumbo craft sticks with white, red, and pink acrylic craft paint. Set them aside to dry, and apply a second coat if necessary.
- Lay out two large red heart stickers and one medium red heart sticker onto your work surface, then lay two medium white hearts on top of the red hearts, and a small white heart on top of the medium red heart. Peel back the liner paper and attach the white hearts to the red hearts. Do not remove the backing from the red hearts yet! Repeat with pink and red hearts, then white and pink hearts. Mix and match the colors to create your own unique combinations.
- Peel the backing paper from the first large, layered heart and attach it to the end of a painted craft stick. Repeat with the second large, layered heart, overlapping the pointed end. This creates the feather end of the arrow. Peel the backing paper from the medium layered heart and attach it to the opposite end of the craft stick to create the arrow point.
- Flip the arrow over and attach two large and one medium heart (in matching color) to the back of the layered hearts, covering the sticker adhesive to give a clean finish.
- Download and print the Valentine’s Day love messages and cut out the individual messages with scissors. Use your glue of choice to attach the messages to the front of the arrow.
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