• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Contact
Family Focus Blog Header

Family Focus Blog

A top mom blogger shares everything from parenting tips to family travel advice.

  • Activities & Crafts
  • Home Decor
  • Green Living
  • Family Food
  • Family Travel
  • Lifestyle
  • Parenting
You are here: Home / Activities & Crafts / How To Make A Heart Suncatcher

How To Make A Heart Suncatcher

February 7, 2017 by Rachel Easley

378 shares
  • Share182
  • Tweet
  • Flipboard
  • Threads

Here’s a fun and simple Valentine’s Day craft that kids will love helping make and a bonus…this heart suncatcher will add some fun decoration to their room! There are all kind of paper sun light catchers that can be made. We made some patriotic ones this past summer for the 4th of July! This Heart Suncatcher Craft Banner can be customized to your favorite colors and sizes. They all seem to come out pretty unique. You more than likely already have everything that you need to get started!

heart suncatcher

Heart Suncatcher Craft Banner Tutorial

First let’s discuss- what is a suncatcher? A suncatcher is a decorative object typically made from colored glass, plastic, or other translucent materials such as tissue paper, designed to capture and reflect sunlight. When hung in a sunny window or outdoor space, a suncatcher allows light to shine through, creating a beautiful display of colors and patterns. Suncatchers can come in various shapes, sizes, and designs, ranging from simple geometric patterns to intricate images of animals, flowers, or other motifs. They are often used as ornaments to add a touch of beauty and brightness to a room or garden.

Heart Sun Catcher Craft Supplies Needed:

  • Construction Paper (for making your heart frame)
  • Tissue Paper
  • Scissors
  • Tape (or glue stick)
  • Plastic sandwich bag
  • Pen
  • Free heart template or cookie cutters (optional)
  • Twine/Cord

Directions For How To Make Heart Suncatchers:

Grab your supplies and head to a flat surface. If your kids are joining in, grab seats around the table! Start by tracing out several hearts on your construction paper. You can freehand the heart shape and make it a large heart or a small heart. If you like a more perfectly symmetrical look, you can use a cookie cutter like we did. Or you can use a free printable heart template.

Your garland can be as long as you would like for it to be. We stuck with 5 small size hearts. Once you have drawn your heart outlines, cut them out.

Next, grab your plastic bag. Trace around your cut out hearts onto the plastic bag.

Heart Light Catcher Garland

Cut out your plastic hearts and tape them to the back of your construction paper hearts. You can use double-sided tape for this, if you have it.

Next, take your tissue paper and tear it into small pieces. I used what we had which was just plain white tissue paper. However, feel free to use an assortment of colorful tissue paper for a stained glass heart suncatcher, if you prefer. The tissue paper pieces do not have to be all the same size. Flip your heart over where the back is facing up and cover the plastic with your tissue paper taping down pieces as you go.

Once you have covered all of your plastic, tape your hearts to your twine and you have your own Heart Suncatcher Craft Banner! Hang up in a window and watch the sunlight come through the center of the hearts.

Heart Suncatcher Craft Banner

Conclusion

Creating tissue paper heart suncatchers is a fun and easy craft that can be enjoyed by kids and adults alike. Hang your tissue paper heart suncatcher in a window where it can catch the light. Have you ever made sun light catchers? This fun and easy suncatcher craft is a kid favorite! Heart crafts are always popular.

You may also enjoy making a washi tape heart banner.  You can use them both to decorate different rooms or different areas of the same room for Valentine’s Day or an anniversary!

This tissue paper stained glass craft is also really fun and a great sun catcher.

378 shares
  • Share182
  • Tweet
  • Flipboard
  • Threads

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Lee Orlian says

    February 10, 2017 at 3:21 pm

    Thank you for sharing this! What a great idea!

Primary Sidebar

Let's Be Friends!

Welcome To Family Focus Blog

Family Blogger
Thanks for reading Family Focus Blog, a parenting and lifestyle blog that provides tips, advice, and inspiration for families. It covers a wide range of topics, including parenting tips, family-friendly recipes, eco-friendly living, family travel, home decor, and family activities. The blog was created in 2010 by Nashville mom blogger, Scarlet Paolicchi. She shares her personal experiences and practical advice for raising children and maintaining a balanced family life. Scarlet Paolicchi is the author of four books, available through her affiliate link on Amazon.

Footer

Popular Posts

Chocolate Pudding Pie Recipe
Lord of The Rings Recipes
Why Is Family Important?
Bible Verses About Parenting Responsibilities
Zucchini Pie Recipe
Family Oriented Meaning

Disclosure

Family Focus Blog is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program. We also accept forms of cash advertising and sponsorship. We disclose material relationships and share honest opinions.
Privacy Policy

Copyright

© Scarlet Paolicchi and Family Focus Blog, 2010-2024. Short excerpts of this family blog may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Family Focus Blog with link back to the original content. Duplicating a whole post is strictly prohibited.

Copyright © 2025