The Day It Rained Hearts Process Art

The Day It Rained Hearts, have you read this adorable book yet? It’s perfect for Valentine’s Day! It’s also this week’s Virtual Book Club book pick. Little Sister explored printmaking and made a book-inspired hearts collage. When presented as a fun process art activity, you might be surprised what your kids end up making. Little Sister made a paper bag puppy puppet with a couple of her painted hearts and it’s the cutest thing!

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The Day it Rained Hearts

by Felicia Bond, For Ages 4-8

One day it rains hearts, and Cornelia Augusta catches them. She realizes that the hearts are perfect for making valentines. Each heart is special in its own way, and Cornelia Augusta knows exactly who to send them to: her animal friends.

Perfect for kids who love animals! It’s a great way to encourage creativity while also spreading kindness.

Heart-themed Process Art Projects

Supplies:

• paint
• paper bags
• Melissa & Doug clay set or other items to make prints with
• scissors
• white paper/construction paper
• stickers, optional

Little Sister used the wooden stamping cubes from the clay set to make different kinds of prints in Valentine’s colors. She just stamped her little heart out on several sheets of white paper to create pretty designs.

We used a plastic heart to trace the heart shape over the dried printed paper. Once cut out, Little Sister made a heart collage embellished with stickers. She also gets a kick out of conversation hearts so she practiced writing Valentine’s words on a couple of plain heart.

Little Sister also designed a very cute Valentine’s puppy that can be used as a paper bag puppet. She used 2 of the cut heart as ears and added a sparkly heart for the dog tag. Kids could make all kinds of animals with the heart shapes and paper bags!

See also: Paper Bag Ladybug Puppet

Both kids each decorated paper lunch bags. Without them knowing, I added a red heart to each with ‘Happy Valentine’s Day!’ written on them. Then I placed a few Valentine’s Day surprises on the inside.

Some fun things to add might be: a small stuffed toy, lollipops, gum, candy, mini sticker books (Walgreen’s usually has them for cheap), small novelty toys, and handwritten notes.

The Day It Rained Hearts Book Extensions

1. Easy Heart Art Painting – Messy Little Monster
2. Prewriting Valentine’s Day Pack – Kori at Home
3. Coding for Kids – The Day It Rained Hearts – JDaniel 4’s Mom
4. Raining Hearts Viscosity Experiment – Inspiration Laboratories
5. Preschool STEM: Valentine’s Tower – Preschool Powol Packets
6. Heart Shaped Pancakes -The Educators’ Spin On It
7. Love Heart Number Line – Adventures and Play
8. Broken Hearts Number Bonds – Rainy Day Mum
9. Hearts Sensory Bin -The Moments at Home
10. Raining Hearts Name Craft – Still Playing School
11. How to Make a Simple Matching Game for Preschoolers – Mama Smiles
12. Throw a Love Fest | Kindness Party for Kids – Toddler Approved

More Valentine’s Day Books for Kids

 I Love Hugs and Kisses Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse! The Biggest Valentine Ever Llama Llama I Love You Fancy Nancy: Heart to Heart

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For another love-filled Valentine’s Day craft idea, check out or handprint heart and poem craft.

  

More Valentine’s Day Ideas

• Paper Plate Animals with Heart Shapes
• Cute Valentine’s Day Paper Crafts
• Heart Shaped Puppy Card
• Heart Caterpillar Card

Amanda

Artsy Momma

Amanda is an ‘artsy momma’ to 2 kids who love making crafts just as much as she does. Follow their creative journey over on the blog titled Artsy Momma. Besides crafts, they share fun food ideas, hands-on learning activities, mommy DIY, + lots more! If you love handprint art, head over to their Fun Handprint Art blog where you will find hundreds of their projects all made with little hands and feet.