How to Make an Easy Heart Drawing (2024)

• Seasonal art for kids

Celebrate love and friendship with these colorful Valentine’s Day drawings. Create heart mandalas together for easy heart drawings.

Updated January 2023

Doing an interactive heart drawing is one of our favorite activities for slowing down and connecting through creativity this time of year.

These are a Valentine take on the back-and-forth mandala drawings we do year-round. We love the process of creating a joint artwork and taking turns to add our own design or layer.

We also LOVE the symbolism of your heart inside my heart inside your heart! So sweet!

You can do this with each of your kids separately and also do heart mandalas all together. Here’s a video of this drawing activity in action as well as some notes of materials, steps, and variations below.

Easy Heart Drawing for Kids

MATERIALS

• Paper
• Drawing tools*

*Anything goes, really. We’ve done this drawing activity with markers, pens, pencils, crayons, oil pastels, and even paints.

To finish, sign your collaborative heart art or add a message to it, if you like.

These heart drawings are beautiful and worthy of displaying!

Variations on Easy Heart Drawings

1. Include a larger group in this activity. We usually do our heart mandalas one-on-one, but sometimes do a three- or four-way heart drawing. You could do this with the whole familyor a group of friends.
2. Instead of going back-and-forth right away, leave the heart drawing out over a few days and let each person add their layer at their leisure.
3. Use paints instead of, or in combination with, drawing.
4. Trycollage (as with these sticker mandalas).
5. A single person can make a heart mandala drawing by adding consecutive layers of drawing elements or colors.
6. Do regular back-and-forth mandaladrawings (circles) rather than hearts.
7. Tailor this activity to another holiday. We add design layers to Easter egg drawings around Easter, for example.
8. Do regular back-and-forth drawing together.

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• How to Make DIY Valentines for Kids with Cardboard Hearts
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• The Best Books for Valentine’s Day
• 19 Easy Valentine Crafts for Kids

Want even more creative ideas?

Check out our Hearts Activities pack!

We think you’re going to LOVE this sweet collection of adorable heart activities! This 32-page printable eBook is full of coloring pages, drawing prompts, games, and more!

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