Heart Blotto Valentines

We made Heart Blotto Valentines! They turned out simply gorgeous! (keep reading to see more that we made!) Paint Blottos are always a Fun process and create a Wonderful result!  We created our Blottos on a heart shape since we were going to create them into Valentines.

To create a Heart blotto all you need is:

 Heart Shaped paper

Brushes

Tempera paint

To begin, fold your heart in half so you form a crease in the middle of the heart.  Then use a paint brush to put paint blobs or shapes on one side of the paper.

Then, refold the paper and rub gently over the outside so that the paint transfers to the other side.

When you open the paper you'll have something like this below.  You can keep adding paint each time you reopen the paper. You want to put wet paint blobs so that the paint will transfer.  If the paint is dry tit will not print on the other side.

We made a bunch of hearts of all different sizes.  Making blottos is very addicting! Cassie was having fun using her imagination to tell me what the blottos looked like (lots of faces, trees, angels, and more!)

Paint Cut Paste did a whole post on imagining images in their blottos and naming them! Check out the post here.

After the blottos were dry,  we glued them on red, pink, or any valentine color.  Then we cut around the heart,  but made sure to leave an edge to create a frame around the painted blotto.  As you can see, we used some of our fancy scissors to create a more elegant touch! I LOVE these! What do you think?

I know we'll be creating more Heart Blottos soon!  They make very unique Valentines! You could create a message on the back and send them to all  your valentines!


Blottos are fun to make when creating Butterflies like Tinkerlab did in this post !

Have Fun Making Blottos!

This post is linked to: It's Playtime, Link and Learn, Show and tell