Coffee Filter Flower Valentine Craft DIY

Our coffee filter flower valentine craft is the perfect DIY for littles to make for your family Valentine’s Party. Messy, wet, fun and easy!

With Valentine’s Day coming up, we’re going to share some of the ideas we have for making this a fun family time.  A Valentine’s Party is optional, but if it works into the schedule, that’s part of the plan.

This is the first step in a plan for a Heart Day Party.

How to make Coffee Filter Flowers

We’ve made coffee filter flowers before, but this time, we’re going to make a big heart for party decor.

This is the simplest coffee filter flower DIY ever.  And they’re the fun for littles, because they get to scribble with markers, and spray water and make all kinds of mess.  Even the littlest G’little can help with these.

The hardest part is waiting for them to dry.

What you need:

• coffee filters
• washable markers
• water spray bottle
• cardboard
• glue.  Hot glue or Aleene’s Tacky glue.  Hot glue is tricky with littles, so keep age in mind when you use it.  Staples can work, too.
• ribbon.  Just any leftovers from your stash.

Step 1.  Make the flowers.

1. Scribble color on the coffee filters with the kids markers.  Color a whole table full of filters.  (If the littles get tired and give up on the markers, make bowls of colored water and dip the rest of the filters.  You are going to need LOTS of filters.  Like a whole pack or two.  I ended up making pink water and dipping the filters.  So our cardboard heart became pink instead of multi colored.)  

2. Spray the filters with water and watch the colors spread like magic.
3. Let the colors run from one filter to another if the water gets to be a river.  Children spraying water: anything can happen.

4. Let the filters dry.  Be sure to have a plan for the littles while you wait for the filters to dry.  If you don’t, you might end up with gray flowers.  Little hands will tweak and touch and wet filters will smear and smush into all one color.  Read stories?  Jump on the tramp?  Eat conversation hearts?
5. When the filters are dry, stack 6 filters on a pile.  Pick them up as one, lay them on a palm, and poke a finger into the center of the pile with the other hand.  Scrunch your hand with the pile of filters up around the finger.  Pull the finger out and wrap that hand around the top of pile of filters.  Squeeze them together.  Twist the filters, especially on the bottom where they all meet.  When you have a nice twist at the bottom, begin pulling the tops apart for a frilly flower.

Step 2.  Cover the cardboard heart.

1. Cut a heart out of cardboard, any size you wish.
2. Start gluing flowers onto the cardboard heart. Cover both sides if it will be a hanging heart, or one side if you want a wreath or sign style of valentine.
3. Add ribbon for hanging if you wish.

More coffee filter craft ideas.

We have another coffee filter kid’s craft on the blog: Coffee Filter Angel DIY

The SitsGirls.com made lollipop bouquets for teacher gifts.  They show you how on their website.

These realistic flowers were made by karlascottage.  

She added darker edges with a washable marker dipped in water.  Watercolor paint works well, too.

And being fans of twinkle lights, we can’t forget coffee filter flower twinkle lights!  Craftyourhappiness.com has a detailed how-to for these.

And when you’ve mastered coffee filter roses, you can learn how to make peonies or hibiscus or other lovely flowers with the filters.  There are some talented people out there who can teach you how!

More kids crafts on the blog:

Parents Valentine Keepsake Craft for Art Class
10 Children’s Lighthouse Crafts to Make This Summer
10 Spring Chick Crafts Plus a Bonus Pop-Up Card DIY
DIY Wildflower Garden With Fairy Silhouette Nightlight Jar
How To Make a Seashell Candle Holder From Your Collection

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