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Heart Pocket Craftivity

Heart Pocket Craftivity
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Description

The Heart Pocket Craftivity is a creative and hands-on Valentine’s Day or kindness-themed craft that allows students to design and personalise a pocket-shaped heart. This pocket can be used to store notes of appreciation, kind messages, or personal reflections. Perfect for fine motor development, classroom displays, and encouraging positive peer interactions.
Students will cut, fold, and assemble their heart pocket using the step-by-step guide, then fill it with notes, decorations, or messages of gratitude.

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Lesson Structure
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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

•    Print in black-and-white for students to colour and customise.
•    Use cardstock for a more durable and sturdy pocket.
•    Offer pre-cut templates for younger students who need extra support with fine motor skills.

EXTENSIONS

•    Have students write kind notes to place inside their classmates’ heart pockets.
•    Use as a self-reflection journal, where students add notes on what makes them feel happy and confident.
•    Create a "Kindness Wall" display in the classroom with all completed crafts.

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