Easy Washi Tape Valentine’s Day Cards for Kids to Make

These cute vintage-design washi tape homemade cards are so easy to make with your kids!

Let your Littles tell your family and friends you’re all thinking about them on Valentine’s Day with a simple handmade greeting card straight from the heart.

Add a strip of magnetic tape to the back of the picture and/or the card itself, so the photo or card becomes a fridge magnet. And you don’t have to add any magnet if you don’t have the magnetic strip. Just attach the photo to the front of the card and secure it with the washi tape, as we did with two of our cards.

This design is versatile, too. Use it for any other occasion or simply just to say hello.

You can use a school or other family photo or your child’s own art work.

Kids have a lot of fun designing their own cards. If you have a child who’s into crafting, you’ll know what I mean. They love picking out “all the things” for the activity.

You won’t need a lot for this little project. You may have some of the materials already on hand.

Materials

Here’s what you’ll need for this little project:

• A school photo or other photo of your child or one of his or her drawings;
• Washi tape. This durable paper tape comes in many widths, colors and designs. It’s great for kids because you can easily tear it without using scissors. It’s really sticky and doesn’t leave a gluey residue behind if you pull the tape off. We used this washi tape with a cute vintage design;
• Cardstock. For this project we used 8½” x 11 ” sheets of red, pink and lavender for Valentine’s Day and simply folded them in half;
• Peel-off magnetic tape;
• Rubber stamps. We used the rubber stamps already in our craft bin.
• Scotch tape; and
• Ink-pads in any color you’d like. We used black and lavender for our cards.

Let’s Get to Making Cards!

So here’s how we made the cards:

Fold an 8½ x 11-inch piece of cardstock in half to create your card. You can also use a smaller size cardstock, maybe  8½ x 5½-inch, for a smaller card. Use whatever color cardstock you’d like. We used red, lavender and pink for this project.

To frame the card, as we did with the card below, cut out a smaller piece of cardstock in white and attach it to the card using scotch tape. Attach washi tape to the sides of the frame to add color. We have a stamp that says “Love You,” so we stamped the top of this frame with the greeting.

Cut out a strip of magnetic tape and attach it to the back of the photo. Then tape the photo to the front of the frame so it can easily be pulled away to become a fridge magnet. You could also attach a magnetic strip to the back side of the card so the whole card could be displayed on the fridge. Your choice.

If you don’t want to make a cutout frame for the front of the card, simply attach washi tape to the front of the photo to secure it in place. Attach the magnetic strip to the back of the card instead of the photo, if you want.

You can also use rubber stamps to decorate the sides of the card, as we did with this card.

There’s lots of room to add your own creative touches to these cards.

Have fun!