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Heart Character Pocket Craft

Heart Character Pocket Craft
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Description

The Heart Character Pocket Craft is a fun, hands-on Valentine’s Day or kindness-themed craft activity that encourages students to express creativity while making a pocket character to store small notes or positive messages. This engaging activity supports fine motor skills, personalisation, and classroom decoration.
Students can colour, cut, fold, and assemble their pocket craft, then use it to hold friendship notes, kindness affirmations, or personal reflections.

Suitable for
  • Fast Finishers
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9AVA2E01 9

Explore different artistic techniques and create personal artwork

AC9AVA2P01 9

Use different materials to produce artworks that communicate ideas

AC9AVA4C01 9

Use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning

AC9AVA4P01 9

share and/or display artworks and/or visual arts practice in informal settings

ACAVAM111 8.4

Use materials, techniques and processes to explore visual conventions when making artworks

VCAVAV026

Explore visual conventions and use materials, techniques, technologies and processes specific to particular art forms, and to make artworks

Differentiation

Modifications

•    Provide a black-and-white version for students to colour and decorate themselves.
•    Print on cardstock for a sturdier pocket character.
•    Use velcro or paper clips instead of glue for an alternative assembly option.

EXTENSIONS

•    Have students write positive messages to place in each other’s pockets.
•    Use as a self-reflection tool, where students write affirmations or gratitude notes.
•    Create a classroom kindness display by attaching finished crafts to a bulletin board.

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