This heart tree craft is such a fun idea for Valentine’s Day. Easy and inexpensive to put together, you can find many of the materials needed at your local dollar store.
If you want to make this a more interactive, family friendly craft project, you can always have each person make some hearts with something they’re grateful for/something they love on them. These can be interspersed with the colorful hearts for a fun Valentine’s Day centerpiece.
Find more great Valentine’s Day ideas here.

Heart Tree Craft Instructions
Prep Time: 1 hour

Supplies:
- Vase – Dollar Tree and Dollarama has nice inexpensive options
- Bead strands or other options below to fill vase
- white stones
- white dry beans
- buttons
- Twine
- Burlap ribbon 2” wide
- Fabric – enough to go around vase
- Scrapbook paper – variety
- 8 thin Twigs 18” long – these came from the beach, so they have a bleached look. You could paint them if preferred.
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun

Instructions:
Fill vase with your choice of beads, stones, beans, or buttons.

Tuck several sticks into the vase.

Cut out several heart shapes. I cut out 3 different sizes and hot glued them together back to back so they were would look nice as a centerpiece from all angles.

Hot glue the hearts to the twigs, randomly so the colors and sizes are dispersed.

Cut a length of fabric that will allow you to wrap around the vase. This fabric is cut to 3” wide.

Create a seam around the fabric and hot glue around the edge. This seam is only 1/8” so that when the burlap covers the fabric you can still see the fabric.

Wrap the fabric around the vase and hot glue the ends together in the back of the vase.

Wrap a length of burlap over the fabric, and hot glue the ends together in the back of the vase.

Then, wrap twine around the center of the burlap several times to create dimension and texture. Tie a bow and set out on display.

This would make a fun centerpiece for a wedding too, especially those with more of a country or rustic theme. You could even incorporate a guest book idea into this by having hearts sitting out for guests to sign and then add them to your tree later. My daughter did a “wishing tree” for her wedding which is a similar idea.
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