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Giraffe Valentine Card Craft For Kids

Prep Time: 8 minutes
Active Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 23 minutes
Spend some time with your kids crafting with this adorable giraffe Valentine card craft. They'll love creating a custom card to give to someone special!
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Author: Sam
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Materials

  • Colored cardstock or construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Markers
  • Giraffe template

Instructions

  • Download the giraffe template, print, and cut out the pieces you need.
    printed template with the words "download the template on the blog" overlay
  • Fold the giraffe card base in half along the dashed line, then cut it out, leaving the top part uncut.
  • Take the nose and mouth piece and glue it to the bottom of the giraffe's head.
    hands gluing nose onto giraffe face
  • Next, take the eyes and glue them on the head, just above the nose.
  • Use a marker to draw on the giraffe's eyebrows and spots along the top of the head.
    hands using marker to draw giraffe patches onto face
  • Place the ossicones at the back and top of the giraffe's head and glue them in place.
  • Create the giraffe's ears by gluing the inner ears to the outer ears.
    hands gluing ears together for giraffe
  • Position the completed ears on the back and top corners of the giraffe's head and glue them in place.
  • Finish up by opening the card and writing a special message inside!
    hands writing a note inside giraffe valentine card