Paper Strips Ladybug Valentines Day Craft

Surprise your friends and family with this adorable ladybug Valentine’s Day craft – two ladybugs sitting on a heart-shaped leaf will make anyone’s day better.

This project is very easy to make and just requires following a few simple steps so you can have your ladybug spinning in no time.

Valentine's Day Ladybug Paper Craft

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You already know that we love Valentine’s Day crafts and are crazy about all the above themed projects, check out our heart crafts or try our yarn wrapped heart crafts.

Make your own 3D paper ladybug for Valentine's Day

This time we assembled the ladybugs in such a way that they could spin on the heart shaped leaf.

Valentine's Day Ladybug Paper

It brings us so much joy, hope it will bring you joy too.

How to Make a 3D Paper Ladybug Craft for Valentine’s Day

What you need:

  • red cardboard
  • pink cardboard
  • white marker
  • drag
  • glue
  • round hole punching machine
  • black cardboard
  • Googly eyes
  • black pencil
  • circular ruler
  • split legs

Materials used

Let’s get started!

Step by step instructions

Draw a heart shaped leaf by hand. Use a white marker and pink cardboard.

Step 1

Use scissors to cut heart shaped leaves.

Step 2

Use the hole punch to punch out two red circles.

Step 3

Push the split pin through the center of the circles and through the pink heart shaped leaf.

Step 4

Separate the two ends of the pin so that the circles adhere tightly to the leaf.

Step 5

The body of the ladybug

Cut eight 1cm wide red strips. Choose the height you want the strips to be. These will be used to form the ladybug’s body.

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Step 6

Fold the two ends of each red stripe over.

Step 7

Apply some glue to the folded parts and make an X shape on the red circles as shown in the picture.

Step 8

Glue the rest of the paper strips.

Step 9

Now you can decorate the heart shaped leaves any way you want, but remember to draw two small hearts on the pink leaves.

Step 10

Use a circular ruler and draw a few circles on black cardboard.

Step 11

Cut out these circles.

Step 12

Glue each circle onto the red strips and to the top as shown in this illustration.

Step 13

Make sure you leave two blank strips of paper on each red body because we will glue the ladybug heads to them.

Step 14

Ladybug Head

On black cardboard, draw two ladybug heads.

Step 15

Use scissors to cut off the top.

Step 16

Attach round eyes to the head.

Step 17

Now glue the head to the body where you left the empty strip pieces.

Step 18

They look so cute!

DIY 3D Ladybug Paper Craft

Done!

3D Ladybug Paper Craft Valentine's Day

Now have fun and give them a spin!

3D Paper Ladybug Craft Ideas for Valentine's Day

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