DIY Owl Valentines Candy Cards + Free Printable! Perfect for School Valentine's Day Parties

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DIY Owl Candy Valentines for Kids + Free Printable

Every year for Valentine’s Day, I love coming up with fun and creative cards and crafts to hand out to my family and friends. What better way to show your love than with a cute card and sweet candy?! This year I made these adorable Owl Valentines Candy Cards and plan to send them with Aniyah for her preschool’s Valentine’s Day party. They take roughly 15 minutes to make and are super cute. You can fill them with M&M’s or another Valentine’s candy, or you can put non-candy treats in them, too!

DIY Owl Valentines Candy Cards

Owl Valentines Candy Cards Materials

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Card Stock in Valentine’s Colors
Cricut Explore or other die cutting machine (or scissors)
Owl File if you have a Cricut
color printer – this is the one I have and I love it!
Message Hearts (download and print HERE)
M&M’s® Cupids Mix Milk Chocolate Valentine’s colors or other small candy
3 x 4″ clear treat bags
Scissors
Glue
Stapler
Tape

How to Make Owl Valentines Candy Cards

For the Owls (if you do not have a Cricut Explore Air™ or other machine, simply search Google for a fitting image, print it, cut it out and then trace it onto a stiff piece of paper so you can use it as a template).

For my owls, I used this Teal and Brown Owl from Design Space (Open a new project. Go to ‘insert images’ and do a search for ‘owl’).
I first sized the image to 4.98″ wide by 5.79″high.
Next I ungrouped the design, and kept only the bottom two layers along with the nose and claws.
I then inserted an oval shape measuring 2.1″ in width and in 1.61″ in height and spliced it out of both layers.
You are welcome to use my file HERE.

For the Cardstock Hearts

I simply inserted a heart shape, and resized it to measure 2.14 in width and 2.03 in height.

For the Message Hearts – I created my own word art hearts using Word. You can download and print them HERE. There are 3 different, adorable Owl sayings! Just make sure you use a semi-heavy weight paper to print since you will be gluing into the cardstock hearts.

Your first step is to use your Cricut or other die cutting machine to cut the owls and the hearts. Or use scissors and a template.

Next, print out the message hearts HERE and then cut each individual heart out using scissors. Now you are ready to put the Owl Valentines together!

Glue the beak and feet in place on the top layer of the owl.

Turn the bottom layer (the one without the eyes) over so the back side is facing up, and center the candy bag so it fits behind the oval cut out.

Fold the bottom corners of the treat bag so they do not show from the front. Staple in place making sure you staple as close to the owl’s feet as possible so the staples will not show on the front side once you add the second layer. Staple the sides of the bag, too.