February 2025 Craft: You Are Loved Heart

By Captain Serina Woods
Haines, AK Corps – Alaska Division

Supplies Needed:

Cardboard for each person 8 x 11 (recycled cardboard)
Puzzle Pieces (500 is what I used)
1 Big heart and 1 small heart (patterns included in the downloadable instructions)
Glue
Scissors
X-Acto Knife
Red Spray Paint – fast drying
Cutting board or large cardboard piece
Cardstock for banner

Directions:

Before craft preparation

Step 1: Print out hearts – one large and one small for each person (Pattern included in the downloadable instructions below).

Step 2: Print Banners using cardstock (I used Baguet Script – 48)

Working on craft

Step 3: Glue big hear to cardboard, cut out big heart around out edge.

Step 4: Cut out small heart and glut to big heart, center it. Then using X-Acto knife to cut out small heart. This will create a frame heart.

Step 5: Glue puzzle pieces to frame heart making sure some pieces are a little off the frame on both the outer frame and inside frame as as close to each other as possible.

Step 6: Place more puzzle pieces on top of the first layer to make it a double layer. Put glue directly on to puzzle pieces. Let glue dry for 10 minutes.

Step 7: Take fast drying spray paint outside in a shallow cardboard box. Spray heart piece two times. Allow time for first layer to dry. (Optional spray some pieces a different color for a top color).