Simple DIY Valentine Door Decorations From Dollar Tree

Valentine’s Day is approaching, which means…bring out the hot glue gun and your scissors because we are going to do some DIY Valentine door decorations!

Even though I’m an interior decorator gal, I still love me some crafting sessions. Especially with family. It’s a great way to spend time together and make something beautiful. I had so much fun and loved this craft just as much as my DIY spring gnomes or the simple Earth Day vase and flowers craft.

I’ve always thought that some cute Valentine’s Day crafting was the perfect way to celebrate this small holiday. 

Which is exactly what my mom, daughter, and I did the other day.

I wanted to show you how easy this DIY valentine’s day craft was to make and how cute it turned out. It’s an easy peasy dollar tree valentine wreath craft that was fun and simple to do.

When I was finished, I couldn’t wait to hang this baby on my front door and take some pictures to show you. 

So let’s look at what you might need to do this heart-shaped Valentine’s Day wreath of sorts.

DIY Valentine Heart Door Decoration

Here I am providing step-by-step instructions for crafting a charming heart-shaped door decoration using affordable materials from the dollar store. You will discover creative and budget-friendly ways to add a touch of Valentine's Day flair to your home through this easy-to-follow do-it-yourself project.

• 1 pair scissors
• 1+ piece paper
• 1 hot glue gun
• 1+ dollar store wooden heart
• 1+ piece ribbon
• 1+ appliques

DIY Projects, Valentine’s Day Projects

DIY Valentine Front Door Wreaths Supply List

– Dollar store wooden hearts (or you can do any dollar tree heart shape such as heavier paper hearts if you wish)

– Scissors

– Paper such as fun construction paper

– Hot glue gun

– Ribbon or lace ribbon

– Wooden appliques

Some other craft supplies you could use could be:

– Paint 

– Faux flowers in different colors

– Tissue paper

– Paper Doily

– Pom poms

– Faux baby’s breath

– Fabric strips

– Coffee Filters

– Polka Dots

– Wire Cutters

The list goes on.

Just be creative and have fun with it. What we did was bring out some supplies that we already had and tried to find some things that we could use from our crafting stash. Sometimes starting with what you have when you’re doing a DIY project saves money and puts what crafting things we haven’t used yet to good use. 

But if you have a specific vision, then take yourself to some craft stores and see what you can find for your own Valentine’s Day door decorations.

Making Your Background

I decided to put a background on my paper heart wreath to start this project off. I picked out a cute blue diagonal-striped scrapbooking paper that I had left over in my craft supplies from ages ago. I took the wooden heart, turned it around, and then traced the shape of a heart on the back side of my scrapbooking paper.

Here I am getting ready to cut this heart shape out to use as my Valentine’s Day door hanger’s background.

P.s. This is my dining room/living room area which kind of looks more like a craft store at the moment. And I wouldn’t have it any other way to be honest!

Layering These Valentine’s Day Decorations

I had this gorgeous vintage bird piece of fabric stuffed in my craft drawer in my office and was waiting for a good time to use it. No time like the present!

I made a mistake cutting my fabric and it got a bit wonky on me.

But I’ve got a fix for that!

Isn’t it Bob Ross who says there are no mistakes, just happy accidents? Don’t be afraid if you “design improvised” your DIY. Because that’s exactly what I did here.

I chose this beautiful and rustic-looking ribbon to go over my “mistake” and it completely covers it.

You would never even know!

My mom, my daughter, and I were making our own versions of Valentine’s Day decorations that we were inspired to create. Here are some of my 7-year-old daughter’s creations. She did such a great job and loved every minute of it.

We had quite a bit of different ribbon options, and I loved the ribbon we already had for my little valentine’s day door hangers. So I added another strip.

I guess I was thinking my vision for this would be a soft French cottage style, so the multiple ribbons were perfect.

I got a little stuck before this point for a bit. Then I decided to add some different texture and material. I got these little wooden rose appliqués from the dollar tree when I got my dollar store haul minutes before we started this project.

They. were. perfect.

But there was one small thing I wanted to do with them to make this DIY valentines day project more of my own.

I thought painting these little roses brown would add in a little bit of rustic charm to my heart craft. It definitely did not mention it added a new color into the mix.

Here it is after I used my generic glue and paint brush and then decided to switch over to a hot glue gun because these guys kept wanting to come off.

It holds so much better not to mention the dry time is nothing at all.

It was really starting to come together, and I could finally see the vision!

But knowing me, I wanted more!

I wanted to get that “finished off” look for my heart since it seemed a bit unfinished to me the way it was. But there’s absolutely nothing wrong with leaving the edges untouched; it’s just personal preference.

Here I added some cute blue ribbon to half of the heart around the edges. I put that ribbon around the edges where I had my vintage bird fabric.

To mix it up a bit, I added some of that same off-white ribbon we used before around the edges where the blue paper was. I thought it gave it a nice “patchy” look.

At the last minute, I just lightly tipped my paintbrush into some white paint and barely swiped it across the brown wooden roses to give them a bit of a distressed look.

And here it is all finished!

TADA!

I will say I did end up adding some holes to fish some tiny ribbon through so I could actually use this as a door decoration and hang it from the door of my front porch.

Here are the finished DIY Valentine door decorations that we created after adding ribbon for hanging them. It was such a fun DIY craft to make together with family and was a great way to finally do another DIY for you and sustain my craft habit.

Hehe.

Other DIY Valentine Door Decoration Crafts

I have a few other DIY Valentine craft ideas for your front door that I just had to share. These are from some other bloggers creative imaginations.

DIY Valentine’s Day Wreath

Amber over at the Amber Oliver blog shared a really cool option for making DIY Valentine’s Day wreaths. It’s such a simple wreath and, oh, so cute.

Dollar Tree Valentine’s DIY Puzzle Piece Heart Craft

Rebecca made this really sweet version of her own Valentine decorations that you could hang up. Our diy projects are very similar, with them both being heart decorations, but I just love her way of creating this!

Cricut Valentine’s Wreath

This is super cool from Denise over at Hootshack. She shows you how to make a heart wreath with her Cricut machine and using a heart wreath form. So if you’ve got a Cricut, give this one a try!

Pin for later!

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed this step-by-step guide for this DIY as much as we did. Make sure to get some friends or family to make one with you and make it extra fun. No better way to celebrate this season of love than by getting together and making something as a group.

If you did this fun little DIY craft, please share in the comments below! Or just tell us which of your favorite Valentine’s Day crafts you do.

Happy Crafting!