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Valentine’s STEM Activities: 3D DIY Heart Model for Kids!

Celebrate the scientific side of Valentine’s Day with this 3D DIY heart model that kids can build from modeling clay! You’ll never look at hearts the same way again!

This year, we’re building a complete them around Valentine STEM activities. We loving bringing the holidays into our STEM activities because the kids get a big kick out of it. Our first Valentine STEM activity was making a DIY heart model from modeling clay.

I’d always wanted to try making  a 3D heart model, but it turns out, hearts are complicated!

If you need more heart activities to try, try making fizzing hearts, play Valentine heart bingo, or make conversation heart structures!

 

Celebrate the scientific side of Valentine's Day with this 3D DIY heart model that kids can build from modeling clay! You'll never look at hearts the same way again!

Related: Heart Letter Match Game

 

VALENTINE 3D HEART MODEL

This simple DIY 3D heart model is a fun way to learn about the different parts of the heart. With a good diagram or heart model and some clay, you can make your very own life sized DIY heart model! We used modeling clay to make our heart so we could re-use it again, but if you wanted to make this from oven-bake clay on a smaller scale, they would make adorable non-candy Valentines for friends and classmates!

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WHAT YOU’RE LEARNING WITH THE VALENTINE DIY HEART MODEL

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The heart is made up of four chambers and valves that work together to pump oxygen throughout the body. Kids will be fascinated to see how their heart actually looks and will have fun molding their own realistic heart model from clay.

 

What you’ll need for the 3D heart model project:

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  • Modeling clay in red and blue
  • Clay-shaping tools
  • Heart diagram or model 

HOW TO MAKE THE VALENTINE 3D HEART MODEL

 

Celebrate the scientific side of Valentine's Day with this 3D DIY heart model that kids can build from modeling clay! You'll never look at hearts the same way again!Monkey started to make the heart model based off of our diagram. I found this diagram in an article about IVC filters. I picked this diagram because it showed all the parts of the heart color-coded for arteries and veins.

Celebrate the scientific side of Valentine's Day with this 3D DIY heart model that kids can build from modeling clay! You'll never look at hearts the same way again!

Monkey used her hands and the clay shaping tools to create each part of the heart model, then I helped her stick them all together. Hearts have a lot of parts!

 

We talked about each part and what it did while we constructed our heart model.

Celebrate the scientific side of Valentine's Day with this 3D DIY heart model that kids can build from modeling clay! You'll never look at hearts the same way again!

Our modeling clay is covered in glitter because Bo thought it would be a good idea to dump an entire bottle of glitter onto our modeling clay. So from now on, all our STEM and science projects will be super jazzy and sparkly.

 

GET YOUR VALENTINE’S STEM CHALLENGE CALENDAR HERE!

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VALENTINE 3D HEART MODEL STEM INTEGRATION

Celebrate the scientific side of Valentine's Day with this 3D DIY heart model that kids can build from modeling clay! You'll never look at hearts the same way again!

Science: Study the parts of the heart and learn their names.

Technology: Talk about the different technologies used to keep hearts safe and healthy.

Engineering: Experiment with building a 3D heart model that can actually pump liquid.

Math: Calculate the heart rate of each student and figure out the average class heart rate.

 

More VALENTINE ACTIVITIES to try

Love kids Valentines activities? You'll love this collection of the best Valentine's Day slime recipes in the world! Kids will have a blast with these Valentine sensory activities. #valentinesday #kidsactivitties #slime #stemed

Valentine's Day is the perfect time to do kitchen science with kids. Whip up these fun heart lollipops for kitchen science fun and learning!

Don't want to give out 33 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Valentines? Make one of these creative and educational school Valentine ideas instead!

Make Valentine's Day special and educational for your toddlers and preschoolers with these Valentine's Day fine motor activities! Kids will love them!

 

More Valentine’s Science Projects

Nothing says Valentine's Day like pink and glitter. Mix them both in this fun Valentine's STEM activity making pink glitter slime!

Valentine’s Glitter Slime

Kids will love this fun Valentine's Day STEM activity featuring Squishy Circuits! Learn all about circuits this Valentine's Day!Valentine’s Light-Up Heart Circuit

Try this simple and fun Valentine's Day engineering challenge with your kids. Can they build a LEGO heart? It sounds easy, but it's brain-stretching!Valentine’s LEGO Hearts

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Filed Under: Art/Design STEAM Activities Tagged With: elementary, heart, valentines day

About Brenda Priddy

Brenda grew up thinking she hated science.

But when her 4-year- old daughter was more interested in reading science facts than fairy tales, Brenda realized she had to learn more about science to keep up with her daughter.

Through simple at-home science experiments, Brenda developed a passion for science and now acts as an advocate for STEM education for kids at her website STEAMsational.com.

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