How to Make the Sweetest Valentine Hedgehog Craft for Kids

If you are looking for the sweetest hedgehog Valentine for kids, you’ve come to the right place! Kids of all ages will enjoy creating a happy hedgehog craft with hearts, paint, pompoms, and our printable hedgehog template. It’s the perfect Valentine hedgehog craft for home or school!

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How to Make the Sweetest Valentine Hedgehog Craft for Kids

My kids love creating handmade Valentine cards for their friends and family. My 4th grader adores hedgehogs, so we thought it would be fun to create a colorful hedgehog Valentine for him to pass out to teachers and classmates.

This easy Valentine’s Day craft can be modified for kids of all ages. See all the suggestions shared below!

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To Make This Hedgehog Valentine You Will Need

• Printable hedgehog template
• White card stock
• Scissors
• Washable paint
• Paintbrush
• Pom poms
• Glue stick
• Sticker eyes or wiggly eyes
• Black marker

Directions for Valentine Heart Hedgehog Craft

1. Print the 2-page hedgehog template on white cardstock. You will need one template per child. Alternatively, this template can be printed on colored cardstock if kids do not want to paint or color it.

2. Invite your child to paint their hedgehog template with washable paint. We used black washable paint for the hedgehog’s body and rainbow colors for the hedgehog’s quills (the hearts).

Kids could also use markers, crayons, or colored pencils.  Or, simply use the template as a pattern to trace on colored construction paper.

3. When the paint is dry, invite your child to cut out the hedgehog shapes and the hearts.

Note: Cutting out the small hearts may be time-consuming for very small hands—great fine-motor scissor practice—but time-consuming. One alternative is to have kids paint blank sheets of white cardstock, then use a heart paper punch.

If you are making this craft with a large group of kids, it may be simpler to provide baskets of pre-punched hearts. We used 20 small hearts per hedgehog.

4. Use a glue stick or tacky craft glue to secure the hearts to the hedgehog’s body with the pointed end towards the top. This is a great opportunity to work on patterning with toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners!

5. When the hedgehog’s body is complete, invite kids to decorate their hedgehog’s face. We used pom poms for the hedgehog’s nose, but kids could also use buttons or paper circles.

6. Last, glue the decorated part of the hedgehog on top of the greeting card portion. When the glue dries, the card will open and close to reveal the message, “I’m hedge over heels for you!”

Isn’t it sweet? This cheerful hedgehog Valentine is perfect for sharing with teachers, friends, and neighbors.

And of course, if kids don’t want to make it into a card, they will enjoy using the hedgehog template as a fun Valentine’s Day art project.

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Valentine Hedgehog Craft for Kids

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Kids of all ages will enjoy creating a happy hedgehog craft with hearts, paint, pom poms, and our printable hedgehog template. It’s the perfect Valentine hedgehog craft for home or school!

Prep Time 20 minutes

Active Time 20 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Difficulty Normal

Materials

• Hedgehog craft template
• White card stock
• Scissors
• Washable paint
• Paintbrush
• Pom poms
• Glue stick
• Sticker eyes
• Black marker

Instructions

1. Print the template on white card stock. You will need one template per child.
2. Invite your child to paint their template with washable paint. We used black paint for the hedgehog’s body and rainbow colors for the hedgehog’s quills (the hearts).
3. When the paint is dry, invite your child to cut out the hedgehog shapes and the hearts.
4. Use a glue stick or tacky craft glue to secure the hearts to the hedgehog’s body with the pointed end towards the top.
5. When the hedgehog’s body is complete, invite kids to decorate their hedgehog’s face.
6. Last, glue the decorated part of the hedgehog on top of the greeting card portion.
7. Your Hedgehog Valentine is complete!

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