Love Bug Crafts

Create these charming Valentine’s Day Love Bug Crafts! Download our free printable templates to cut, decorate, and put together the love bugs, or use them to trace and cut the shapes from paper.

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These printable love bug projects are simple and enjoyable to create for Valentine’s Day! Color the templates as they are, or trace the designs onto construction paper, cut out the pieces, and assemble them.

You can select from 4 cute love bugs – a bee, snail, butterfly, or ladybug.

Materials Required

• Coloring Materials – we chose paint, though markers, colored pencils, or crayons work well too
• Glue – use a glue stick for the paper pieces and hot glue, tacky glue, or adhesive dots for attaching the googly eyes
• Scissors
• Googly eyes – optional for decorating your bugs. Printable eyes are provided with every template.
• White cardstock
• Pink paint – for creating rosy cheeks
• Printable templates – find the printable love bug templates delivered to your inbox at the end of the post

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Steps for Making the Love Bug Crafts

1. Print the templates.

Have the templates sent to you at the end of the post. If you want to color directly on the design, we suggest printing it on white cardstock. When tracing the shapes onto construction paper, standard paper is suitable as well.

2. Cut out the templates.

Several templates offer different mouth choices, and every design includes eyes.

3. Decorate the templates.

Choose any coloring material you like for the templates – paint, markers, crayons, or colored pencils.

Another option is to trace the designs onto construction paper.

4. Put the templates together.

Attach the legs, head, hearts, mouth, and antennae with a glue stick.

5. Attach the googly eyes.

Apply tacky glue or hot glue, with adult help, to secure the googly eyes. This step is optional because printable eyes are also available to attach.

6. Create the cheeks.

Place the back of a pencil or paintbrush into pink paint, then dab it beside the mouth to form the cheeks.

Children of every age can enjoy these love bug crafts! With younger children, grown-ups can cut out the templates while kids handle the coloring and gluing.

Find the Free Printable Templates Here