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DIY

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Get ready to share puppy Valentine's Day cards with your friends and family!

You will need: CREATING YOUR

red, white, pink, and black construction paper
scissors • glue • colored markers Valentine

Face Eyes 1. Glue the white and pink hearts
together where the hearts
1. Fold your pink paper in half. 1. Fold another white piece of create a point. Let them dry.
Draw ½ of a heart, starting from paper in half.
the fold. 2. Draw two smaller half-hearts

2. Use your scissors to cut the half on the crease and cut them 2. Glue the ears and tongue onto
heart out. Open it up to see a full out. Open them up to see two the white heart and let it dry.
heart! This will be the dog’s face. really tiny hearts! These will be Once the card has dried, close
3. Trace the full heart onto the the dog's eyes. it so the pink heart shows.
white paper and cut it out.
Ears and Tongue
Nose 1. Fold a piece of red paper in

1. Cut your black paper in half half long ways and draw a large
and fold it. teardrop. Use as much of the
paper as you can. Cut the tear
2. Draw out a smaller half heart drops out. These will be the ears!
starting from the fold. Open it
up to see a small heart! This will 2. Use another piece of red paper 3. Arrange your pieces on the
be the dog’s nose. and draw another, smaller tear pink heart so that it looks like
drop. Cut out the teardrop a dog. Glue everything on.
All of your pieces should and open it up. This will be Use markers to draw eyes and
the tongue!
any other patterns you want
look like this: on your dog!

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