Looking for a Printable Heart Template?

You’ve found it! This resource is a versatile craft template that you can use in loads of different ways. Print one out, make your copies and you are ready to craft!

Ways to Use a Heart Pattern in the Classroom

This heart template is perfect for any craft or activity. Here are some ideas:

• Students can use the heart cut-out shape to create Valentine’s Day crafts like heart-shaped cards, garlands, or mobiles.
• The heart shape can be used as a template for maths activities, such as creating heart-shaped tangram puzzles or using the shape to teach symmetry.
• The heart shape can be used as a writing prompt. For example, students can write about something they love or someone they care about.
• The heart shape can be used to create a classroom decoration. For example, students can write their names on heart-shaped cut-outs and display them on a bulletin board.
•  Students can use the heart cut-out shape as a mindfulness activity. They can decorate the heart with positive affirmations or write down things they love about themselves or each other.

We have one last activity, and we wanted to feature it separately because it is just that special!

Diversity Heart Art Activity

Teach your students that people come in all shapes, sizes and skin colours with this art activity. Ingenious art teacher, Cassie Stephens (@cassie_stephenz), has come up with a heart-warming diversity activity. She wanted to help her students see that people of all skin types are worthy of kindness, acceptance, empathy and love. With her permission, we’ve put a little ‘Teach Starter’ twist on it and wanted to share it with you.

Before beginning this activity with your students, have a class discussion about how people are sometimes treated differently because of the colour of their skin. Reiterate the idea that people of all skin colours are valued and important human beings!

The wonderful thing about this activity is that it can work for a range of student abilities. Older students can work to create as many different skin colours as possible by mixing paints. Alternatively, they can create their own skin colour and contribute it to a whole class love heart.

1. Wet your brush and start by painting a yellow stripe up your page.
2. Slowly, blend the colours one by one to create a unique skin tone. Make sure to add a tiny dab of paint at a time – you can always add more!
3. Work across the page, experimenting to create as many different skin tones as possible. Copy these steps to create a second page (if completing individual student diversity hearts on A4 paper).
4. Once the paint has all dried, cut each strip of colour.
5. Cut out the centre heart of one of our heart templates.
6. On the back of the page, glue strips vertically across the heart. Don’t leave any gaps! It’s best just to glue the very top and bottom of the strip so you can still weave your other pages through.
7. Finally, weave your remaining strips horizontally, making sure that each strip weaves under and over alternate strips to the one before it.

You Can Even Use a Heart Printable for…

• a Mother’s Day card
• a Father’s Day card
• a Grandparent’s Day card
• a template for a concrete poem
• a template for a writing brainstorm.

We’ve included multiple versions of this template, including options for 2 per page, 4 per page, 6 per page, and 20 per page.