Grandparent Valentine without using paint?

[tulips]

bake heart shaped cookies?

[yellowbrkrd]

I gave M some paper squares and let him go to town with markers, Valentine themed stamps, stickers and some of that decorative tape.

[CloudBee]

Today I Googled "heart template", and printed two large heart shapes. One for DS and one for his friend.

I brought out the markers and had them go to down coloring them.

Then I cut out the hearts, glued them to pink card stock, and then cut that out leaving about a 1cm boarder around the heart they colored.

DS gave his to his dad the minute he got home from work.

The entire activity took all of 15 minutes, start to finish. I can text you a pic.

[oceanstbride]

We did beads strung on pipecleaners that I shaped into a heart. Then put a ribbon loop around it so it could be hung.

[t]

Could you trace her hands on red construction paper and glue two together in the shape of a heart?

[spk926]

What if you cut squares of red, pink and white (or other colors!) tissue paper and cut 2 hearts out of clear contact paper. Peel the paper off one heart and let her stick the tissue paper all over. Then peel the paper off the other heart and place on top. You can punch a hole and hang a string on it if you want and it's like a sun catcher. Or just leave it as is!

You can also just have her put tissue paper on the contact paper and then cut out the heart after it's completed.

[t]

Or draw a heart and have her use a bingo dabber to decorate it, then cut the heart out and mat it on another piece of paper.

[gibbinator]

Make a big heart and a little heart. Decorate them. Then make a couple of paper springs to hold the little heart and voila 3D card.

[jaybird]

If she'll paint with a paintbrush, you can write a message in white crayon, then have her watercolor paint over the paper. The message shows through.

Or, cut a coffee filter into a heart. Have her scribble with markers on it. When you wet it (a spray bottle works best, but you can also use a damp paper towel), the water runs and looks like stained glass.

[sookie]

DD used to have major issues with paint (or anything that resulted in messy hands) so we'd give her a paintbrush. She did really well with it, and has since grown out of the messy hands issue so she paints on her hands with the paintbrush before finger painting, so maybe that would work?

What about an inexpensive frame made of cardboard or thick paper that she paints and you put a picture of her with them in it? You can add heart stickers to make it more Valentine-y.

[anna7602]

Quality time with the grandparents? Some kind of specific activity like the zoo if just hanging out doesn't work.

Maybe that's crap, but that's our Vday gift. I put the kids on a plane and here we are. Last year, we saw the ILs the week of V-day. We don't give the grandparents actual gifts for Valentine's day.

[MamaMaui24]

Trace her hand and let her color it?