14 HEARTS OF LOVE
Celebrate Valentine’s Day by showing your child how much they mean to you. Starting on February 1st until the 14th place a heart on their door after they’ve gone to bed. When they wake up each day, a new heart will be waiting for them.
In this crazy world its nice to stop for a second and give your child/children 14 compliments of what makes them so special to you. This activity is great for confidence building too.
My daughter loved her hearts so much last year, she saved them. We put them into a photo album with the year. When she is having a tough day, we pull out the book. We are planning on adding 14 hearts each year, as long as we do it. By the end she’ll have a nice keepsake to look back on.
This year my daughter has requested to make hearts for our bedroom door too. I’ll work with her to make hearts to put on my husbands office door and my husband will work with her to make hearts for me on our bedroom door. It can be a whole family activity! For larger families, take turns placing hearts on each other’s doors. Divide the family member total by 14, if not even, parents can complete more hearts.
Note: There are 2 options to make the hearts. You can open in Canva and type in your messages or you can hand write your messages. Both options come with the Etsy listing.
Materials:
- 14 Days of Love templates
- color cardstock or color paper
- printer- black ink only
- scissors
- marker or markers (to write messages)
- tape or tack (to hang)
To make:
1.) Print out the templates. *Mini hearts are for optional decoration.
I wanted to add more color, so I bought scrapbook paper to use as the background on her name heart and for small decorative hearts. *If you know what you are going to put on all 14 hearts and prefer not to hand write, you can put your compliments on the templates before printing.
2.) Cut out templates.
3.) Write messages on the hearts.
You can write the messages ahead of time or do it each day. If you want your messages to be about their day, wait until the night before to write their message.
There is no right or wrong thing to write. Since there are 14 different days to write messages on the hearts, in our house, my husband and I took turns completing them individually, and did some together. In larger families, siblings could get involved or any other family members.
This year we are going to have extended family get involved. All it takes is a quick phone call and I’ll write their messages on the hearts for them. I’m sure she’ll love guessing who is going to share a heart compliment with her each day.
Some examples for inspiration- 40 Positive Things To Say To Your Child , 66 Positive Things To Say.
4.) Before February 1st, place their name heart on the center of their door and tell them its for a surprise.
5.) February 1st-14th: Place one heart each night on your child’d door after they’ve gone to sleep.
- I put tack behind our hearts to avoid pulling paint off the door. If no tack, this tape won’t take off any paint.
- If multiple children in one bedroom, print hearts at smaller scale to fit 2 sets on a door. Or you could use another door in your house.
Notes: You can do this activity with any hearts. Last year I bought a pack of foam hearts and used those. Each year my plan is to make them a bit different, since saving them in a photo album.
Happy Creating & Complimenting!
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