This heart tree painting is so colorful and fun for kids to make! Use sponges to make your own heart stamps to create the leaves and grass for this art project. This is a great painting idea that kids of all ages will enjoy making!

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This painting idea is perfect for Valentine’s Day! You can easily adapt it to make it work for kids of all ages. Younger kids might only do one color for the tree and one for the grass, while older kids will want to use more than one color.

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If you are looking for more Valentine’s Day painting ideas take a look at this adorable mixed media panda art project and these easy watercolor Valentine’s cards for more fun ideas!

Create your own heart tree painting

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Supplies

• White cardstock
• Printable tree template (optional)
• Cellulose sponges
• Acrylic paint in different colors
• Pencil, scrap paper, and black marker
• Scissors
• Paint palette and water dish
• Paintbrush

Instructions

1. Print out the tree template onto white cardstock. This is an optional step, kids can also draw out their own tree if they like.

Use black acrylic paint and a small paintbrush to paint in the tree. Let this dry completely.

2. Fold a piece of paper in half and draw out a couple of half heart shapes on the fold like in the photo below. You don’t want your hearts to be too big, so you might need to play around with the sizes. I found that having a couple of different sizes of hearts looked nice.

Cut out your heart shapes. Trace them onto a sponge with a marker and cut them out.

I found that cellulose sponges work best for this. They work the best when stamping and are fairly easy to cut.

3. Get your acrylic paint ready in a paint palette. I found that the sponges really soaked up a lot of paint so you want to make sure you have enough paint on your paint palette.

Begin by stamping with one color. Dip your sponge into the paint and gently press the stamp onto the paper. Be careful not to smudge or move the sponge around as you lift it up.

Continue to dip your sponge in the paint and make heart prints on the tree. Let the first color dry first before adding in a second.

4.  While you are waiting for the first color to dry, you can use another heart sponge stamp and stamp on some green grass. 

Start with a bright green and stamp some hearts at the bottom of your paper to create the grass.

5. When the first color is dry, stamp on the second color of your tree. I used a smaller heart stamp for this to give some variety.  Let this dry.

Again, be careful not to slide the sponge around as you are stamping and lifting the sponge off.   

6. Use a light green to stamp some more hearts onto the grass area to finish it off.

7. Once the second color of heart leaves has dried, you can stamp on a third color for your tree to complete the painting. Let everything dry.

This heart tree painting makes an easy and fun Valentine’s Day art project that kids will love to make!

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