DIY Animal Shaped Valentine Box
Pets have a pretty significant place in our lives. They make us happy. The give us unconditional love.
I’ve loved animals for as long as I can remember. Except for cats. Cats are evil. They’ve never liked me much but that’s okay because the feeling is mutual. Over the years, we’ve been pet parents to dogs as well as a parakeet. There are a few times in the year where we see people talking about adding a pet to the family. Christmas, Easter and Valentine’s Day. When people are interested, we encourage people to adopt from the local animal shelter. There are a lot of lessons kids learn from puppies. Unfortunately, not everyone has that option due to lack of time, space, finances or due to allergies.
Don’t worry; there are still plenty of opportunities to welcome animals into your home, especially on Valentine’s Day. Our kids made four-legged Valentine collection boxes to use in their classroom. When I was a kid, we were each given a manila folder that we stapled shut, decorated and hung on the front of our desks. Back then, the only Valentine’s students gave each other were cards. These days, it takes a shoe box sized collection box with a large enough hole to allow for a variety of Pinterest-inspired Valentine gifts. Thankfully, creating one is very simple and doesn’t take too much time for your child to complete. Translation: If the kids notify you the night before the Valentine party at school, you can still crank out this cute pet in no time.
Pet-inspired Valentine Collection Box
What you’ll need:
- Medium sized shipping box or large shoe box. (Approx size 5″ x 7″ x 10″)
- Cardboard box (any size)
- Packing tape
- Utility knife (adults only)
- Colored construction paper
- Markers
- Scissors
- Scotch tape
- Glue stick
- Glue
Steps:
- Use the packing tape to make sure the box is sealed shut.
- Determine what type of animal you want.
- Use the glue stick and tape to adhere the animal’s base color to the box.
- Have an adult use the utility knife to cut a 1½” by 5″ hole in the back.
- Use different colors of construction paper and scissors to add details to the animal. Spots, ears, eyes, tail.
- Use markers to add additional character lines such as nose or mouth.
- Have adult use utility knife or scissors to cut legs from the extra piece of cardboard.
- Since it will be elevated and can be seen from any direction, attach construction paper to the front and back of the cardboard legs and use markers to finish the details.
- Use the glue to adhere the legs to the body so it can stand up.
- Allow it to dry overnight then bask in how adorable a creation you made!
So don’t stress out if you need a last minute Valentine’s Day box. This one is easy, quick and inexpensive. Enjoy all the animals – the pets in your home, the animal Valentine box or just stop by to give some love to the animals at the shelter.
What did you use for collecting Valentines at school?
Those animal boxes are a great idea! How clever. 🙂
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My favorite Valentine’s gift is always a handwritten love letter.
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What a cute little craft! I always enjoy getting handmade gifts from my kids on Valentine’s Day. Thanks for the giveaway too.
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What a great idea and cute.
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And yes, we do have pets! Two chihuahuas who are more like crazy furry kids 🙂
Nice going Nicole….that’s a great decoration idea. Yes, like dogs better than cats, however prefer the parakeet…truly cute. Thanks
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Awe, I love pet inspired Valentine boxes. I’m going to have to make this with my son and show it to his teachers to see if this would be good for his class to make. They use bags right now, but these boxes are so much cuter!
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My son needs a Valentine’s Day box for collecting his cards this year. Such a cute idea, we’ll have to give it a try!
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Those Pet Valentine boxes are sure a lot cuter than the ones I used to make when I was a kid.
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This is so adorable! What a cute way to share your animal love.
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That looks so cool! At first it looks like something that would require more art talent than I have, but as I read your directions I think I could actually do this.
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Awww. You’re so sweet, Rebecca! I miss you too. We’re doing well, yes. Since focusing on our site, we’ve been able to do a lot with it, expand and offer a lot of great content that previously we just didn’t have time for. Hope you’re thriving as well! (I was just checking out the photography class yesterday. Hope to do that soon!)
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Such a great idea and so cute!
I’ll be streaming Orange Is The New Black.
I can’t wait to win this
We like to watch the many British series that are on Netflix
A year of NetFlix would mean a lot of fun evenings of movie viewing with my niece and nephew.
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Thanks for a great giveaway!
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I like action flicks and cop shows the most.
The boxes look fun. And afterwards they can use it as a faux pet (at least mine would, they are still pretty young).