Follow these step-by-step directions to help your children create a Love Canvas craft for Valentine’s Day. Display it at home with other fun heart decor.

This Love Canvas is a really cool project that children of all ages (and adults, too!) will enjoy making for Valentine’s Day. I was inspired by this idea.

Love Canvas Craft Materials:

• 8″ x 10″ artist’s canvas {or larger}
• Painter’s tape
• Craft paints in a variety of colors
• Glitter {optional}

Love Canvas Craft Directions:

Begin with a blank canvas and some painter’s tape. Using the tape, spell out the word LOVE {or any other word/design you’d like}. This would really be a fun project to do for any holiday – just modify the words you spell out and the paint colors that you select.

Choose your favorite paint colors. Because this is a Valentine’s Day project, we went with different shades of red and pink, along with white, brown, and black. I thought this would give it a cool rock n’ roll look!

Begin painting! Cover the entire canvas with a mix of all of the colors you selected. It’s so fun to watch children mix different paint colors and discover new shades they like to use to paint. Lydia was using a brush to neatly paint all around the letters. Bryce started out using a brush… but that changed pretty quickly!

Fingerpainting seemed to be the way to go! Since he’s the artist and this is their project, I decided to let him do what he wanted. Why limit creativity?

Okay, so here’s our completely-painted canvas. I love the brush strokes, finger prints, and all different colors blended together. This will be a craft project we will cherish for many years to come.

And when you peel the tape off {I did this while it was still wet} and add a little clear glitter, you get something pretty amazing! Looks like a painting you’d find in some trendy art gallery, and it was done by a 3-year old and 1-year old! It works beautifully as the focal point of our mantle decorations for Valentine’s Day!

Do you want to make this Love Canvas Valentine’s Day craft with your children?

Pin this Love Canvas image below!