Are you having an at home dinner date for Valentine’s Day? This is a quick and whimsical way to add a little love to your table decor. Combining work and spending time with my daughter who also loves to craft, we came up with making some simple heart paper chains to decorate our house and door for Valentine’s Day. And I added them to our table for some decoration. You can cut them in different colors, using any paper and some clear tape. Attach them to a door, lay them out on a table or string them along a window. There really is only one little trick, which I will get to.
Supplies:
-construction paper or any other paper, we used construction and origami because that’s what we had, try printer paper
-paper scissors
-tape
With your piece of paper you are going to fold about 1” wide accordion style, so back and forth. Make a fold then fold this fold backwards making a second fold.
outline the heart you want to cut.
circle part is not cut.
After you fold the accordion you will draw the heart line that you will cut. Now here is the trick, you cut to the fold but do not completely cut on the line around the curve of the heart. This little section is not cut, this is what creates the chain link. I looked up a few tutorials and none of them mentioned this important secret.
that little piece of chalk is the part not cut.
Do a few of these and tape the edges together. You will always end up with a half heart on the end. Connect this to the next chain.
Hang them on a door, window, make a napkin ring from them or you can lay them around your dinner plates.
Enjoy!
Tracey