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Best Heart Art Projects and Painting Ideas

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Heart-shaped art projects are fun for kids and adults to make at home or in the classroom for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day.

Do you like making, or painting, heart-shaped art? If you answered yes, you will LOVE the heart arts and crafts we have on this list of heart art projects and painting ideas to share with you. Make heart art for someone you love, or encourage your little artist to create heart-work with the list of inspiring heart art ideas below. You might also enjoy this list of flower art projects and painting ideas for kids and adults of all ages.

Most of these easy heart painting ideas and heart crafts make great gift ideas for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, an anniversary, or just for fun. You might also enjoy these Valentine’s Day Crafts and Gift Ideas.

heart art projects, painting ideas, and crafts for kids and adults

Heart Arts and Crafts for Kids and Adults

Heart art is fun to make for Valentine’s Day and a fun way to say I love you any time of year. Get our printable heart outline templates to make heart arts and crafts–>HERE! You might enjoy these lists of rainbow arts, crafts, painting ideas, and Saint Patrick’s Day art and craft projects.

What does heart art mean?

When an artist creates art with hearts, it typically means “love.” In other words, the artwork reflects love somehow, both for the viewer and the artist. And this makes heart arts and crafts an excellent gift for family and friends for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Grandparents Day, an anniversary or a birthday, and Christmas.

How do you make heart art?

Heart art is art created with a heart (or several hearts). In other words, arts, crafts, sketches, doodles, and paintings with a heart shape (or several heart shapes) are included in the artwork, shaped into a heart, or made into heart shapes.

We found so many gorgeous heart art and craft projects and painting ideas using simple materials to produce heart-shaped art in a unique variety of ways that we had to break them down into different heart art categories. Click on the creator of each project for complete step-by-step instructions for each heart art painting idea.

We had to place some of these heart arts and crafts into more than one category to make it easy to find the type of DIY heart art or craft project you are looking for. And, of course, we will continue to add more art projects and heart painting ideas as we find them–be sure to bookmark this page and check back to see the new heart projects we have found!

heart arts and crafts (heart-shaped painting ideas) for kids and adults

Heart-Shaped Watercolor Art Projects and Painting Ideas

Here’s a list of watercolor heart art projects children and adults of all ages will love. Try the watercolor heart painting ideas on the list below with kids from toddlers to teens at home or in the classroom.

Raised salt paint heart art made with primary colors red, yellow, and blue.
Raised Salt Heart Art

Related: Rainbow Shamrock Salt Painting

Heart-Shaped Watercolor Resist Painting Ideas (Crayon Wax, Oil Pastel, or Glue as the Resist Medium)

Use watercolor paints and a resist medium to create these easy heart art projects. Watercolor-resist heart art painting ideas add an element of surprise to your heart-shaped art projects. You might also enjoy this watercolor resist STEAM Experiment. 

watercolor heart art painting ideas
Watercolor SURPRISE Heart Art

Tempera Paint Heart Art Projects

Get out the tempera paints and invite children from toddlers and preschoolers to teens to paint hearts with fun heart painting ideas for kids and adults like those on the following list.

  • Heart Art Symmetry Painting | Artful Parent
  • Painted Heart Art for Valentine’s Day | Bless This Mess
  • Heart Spin Painting (the creator of this easy heart spin painting used acrylic paint, which is fine, but we recommend using tempera paint instead so you don’t ruin your salad spinner. Tempera paint is water-based and washable, while acrylic is not.) | Projects with Kids Blog
  • Valentine Shaving Cream Marbled Heart Art | Hello Wonderful

Crayon, Colored Pencil, Chalk, and Pastel Heart Art Ideas

Use crayons, colored pencils, chalk, and pastels, to draw (and smear) hearts in all shapes and sizes with the heart art ideas included on this fun list of project ideas:

Heart Art Projects with Marker Pens

Get out the washable or permanent marker pens and invite children from toddlers to preschoolers and kindergarteners to teens and adults to create heart art drawings with the ideas on this list:

Heart-Shaped Print-Making or Stamping Art

Creating hearts and heart-shaped prints with toilet paper rolls, pipe cleaners, etc., is fun for kids and adults of all ages. Make heart prints with any of the heart-shaped print-making and stamping art ideas below. Fingerprint and thumbprint heart art stamps and prints are included in the next section.

Fingerprint or Thumbprint Heart Art Ideas

Encourage children and adults of all ages to create heart-shaped prints with their fingers and thumbs with any of these creative heart-stamping ideas. “Thumb-buggy” loves you Valentine’s Day cards are always a hit with family and friends. Get the tutorial HERE–> Fingerprint Lovebug Cards. Or, try any of the other ideas below.

Thumb-buggy loves you!
Thumb-Buggy Crafts
Rainbow thumbprint heart art magnet crafts
Thumbprint Heart Magnet Craft

Heart Handprint Art

Make heart art with handprints with this list of ideas. Heart handprint art is always a hit with parents and grandparents and makes a great gift idea for Valentine’s Day.

String Heart Art Ideas

String heart art projects are fun for children and adults to make for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, or just for fun! Try any of the heart-shaped string art ideas below.

Heart Relief Art Project Ideas

Create heart relief art with any of these fun art projects and painting ideas:

Heart Tree Art

Heart trees are tree art projects and painting ideas with hearts on the branches instead of or in addition to leaves. Give either of these heart-tree art projects a try!

heart art tree (a tree with heart-shaped leaves)
Heart Tree Craft

More Heart Arts and Crafts

We have several more heart arts and crafts tutorials on Rhythms of Play. Give any of these incredible homemade heart arts, crafts, and gift ideas a go:

Fingerprint and thumbprint heart crafts and art ideas.

Heart-Shaped Valentine Crafts and Keepsake Gifts

You may also enjoy this collection of Valentine’s Crafts and Keepsake Gifts Kids Can Make. Just click on the link to see them all!

heart art DIY Valentine keepsake crafts and gift ideas

Related: Nature Crafts and Nature Art Activities That Use Natural Materials

Gorgeous Heart Shaped Art and Crafts for Kids (and Adults too!)

We hope you enjoyed these heart arts and crafts for kids and adults. In this fun collection of project ideas, you can find heart art projects, heart painting projects, and even heart crafts!

You may also enjoy Valentine’s Day Art,  Shamrock Arts and Crafts, and Easter Art projects Kids LOVE!

For more heart fun, go on a heart shape nature scavenger hunt! We have even made a video of all the heart shapes that we have found in nature that you can watch.

Learn more about Rhythms of Play HERE!

Printable Heart Art and Craft Templates

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  1. Erin says

    Thanks for the great list! Here is another heart art that is very easy and fun for kids!

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    • nell says

      Hi Erin!

      I’m so glad you liked this list of heart art projects for kids!

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