I have a super easy homemade Valentine idea for you today. If you don’t really care for any of the kid’s commercialized Valentines that are available, you do have another option. You can make your own.

It doesn’t have to be difficult. You can make these heart fish in just a couple minutes each. You can use construction paper, or scrapbook paper to make the hearts, and all you need is one googly eye, or you can even draw the eye if you want to.

Cut 2~ 5 inch hearts from construction paper, or cardstock in your choice of colors, cut 1~ 3 inch heart for the tail. Flip one of the 5″ hearts and glue the two 5″ hearts top to top like the photo above. Then attach the 3″ heart for the tail, and glue on the eye. Write your Valentine’s Day message on the back. It’s that simple!

You can adapt these to any size you want, they’re still super simple.

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Making your own gift tags is very simple. Here are a three easy ideas so you can make your own gift tags this year.

1. Reuse your old Christmas cards. If you have old Christmas cards from previous years, or even this years cards when your done displaying them. Take the scissors and cut out the main image on the front of the card. Punch a hole in the top with a hole punch, tie on a decorative ribbon, and write your to, from on the back. It’s fast, it’s festive, and it’s almost free.

2. You can also purchase Christmas, or winter cardstock, or scrapbook papers from your local craft or office supply store. Use two complimentary colors. Cut a square with a plastic template, or any other shape you desire your tag to be. You can use cookie cutters to make your shapes if you don’t have a template. If you can cut another smaller shape to fit inside. Glue the smaller shape to the top of the larger. If you have a from-to stamp, or Merry Christmas, stamp the tag before filling in the names. If you don’t have stamps, handwrite the information neatly on the tag.

3. You can also purchase business card stock (or cut your own card stock to size) and sponge paint the edges with gold, silver, red, green, blue, or any combination of these.  Punch a hole in the corner to add a decorative ribbon, and write or stamp your message in the center.

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