Bella and I worked on her Valentines yesterday. She will be handing out these ladybug valentines.
We used red and white card-stock along with brads(metal paper fasteners), 4 1/2 " square of black tissue paper, Tootsie Pops and wiggly eyes. Yes, black brads would have been easier, but I couldn't find them anywhere. So we colored ours with a sharpie marker and it worked perfect!
If you want to make some ladybug valentines, here is the download for the body and wings.
Ladybug Valentine - Body
Ladybug Valentines - Wings
We placed a little glue stick around the bottom of the wrapper and wrapped the black tissue paper around the sucker. Next we attached the wings to the body with the brads, then hot glued the ladybug to the sucker.
Finished!
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Cute idea, but you didn’t say how you attached the Tootisie Pop, it looked like hot glue???? Dianne
Yes, hot glue works great to attach the Tootsie Pop to the ladybug.
These are amazing! I wish I would’ve saw this for my daughter’s first birthday since Ladybugs were her theme.
This is absolutely a very great and creative idea. Thanks for sharing!
These are adorable!!
What a beautiful Valentine. So well constructed evne to the black brads. I could hardly see them. Thanks for a great project.
they came out cute.my girls are all grown and give out cupcakes, if only they were little again so i can make these with them!
I love ladybugs anyway, and these are just adorable!
this is sooooo cute! love it!
Cute as a BUG!! Love it & my little Bella too! xo
Love it! Those are so adorable. I just posted about our Valentines on my blog today, too. Must be something in the air!
Too cute! At my daughter’s school each child has a symbol that they use to represent themselves. My daughter’s symbol is a ladybug! What a perfect valentine for her to give her friends!
These are adorable and I can’t wait to make them for both of my girls. The download for the wings looks black and white, but yours is red/black. I am fairly new to the crafty thing, am I missing something?
By the way, thanks for all you do, I read your blog daily!
LOVE THESE!! my daughter’s name is bella, and we call her buggy…so i might just need to rethink my v-day ideas for her and use these!! thanks for posting.
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Adorable! Thank you for the fun idea:)
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What type of paper did you use for the wings? I can’t seem to find any coloured paper that is printable
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So cute. We have been looking for a new idea for lollipops and this will be perfect. The girls and I will pick up some supplies tonight on the way home. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing; I know these will be a huge hit!!
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I made these today with my 3 yo daughter for her preschool party. They came out soooooo cute! Thank you for the great post!
Just finished these and they turned out ADORABLE!!! Thank you for always having such cute and do-able ideas…fantastic.
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I used red card-stock. I purchased it from the copy shop for 10 cents per sheet.
Thank You! My little girl is going to love this! I made it yellow though because she is always saying how she wished lady bugs were yellow because she loves lady bugs and yellow.
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Just wanted to let you know that I made 100 of these ladybug valentine’s last week for three of my kids classes. They were a huge success and even the teachers asked for one. Thanks for the unique idea.
I just came across this on your site and they are SO CUTE! Can’t wait to make these with my daughter!
Help! For some reason I am getting a black line right down the middle of each of the body circles and it’s cutting into the print. This line does not appear on the pdf image, only when I print. Any advice? Thanks!
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