MORE CRAFTS: Parents.com shared some fun crafting ideas for kids for the Valentine’s Day holiday. Here are two more we thought were worth passing along.

Marbled messages: Spread shaving cream (the creamy kind, not a foaming gel) to make an even layer in a tray large enough to hold your paper. Have your child dribble six to eight drops of food colorings into the shaving cream, and use a toothpick to gently swirl the colors through the cream. When the colors are spread out, have your kid press a piece of thick, white paper onto the colored foam.

Scrape the shaving cream off the page with a ruler. Repeat with more pages.

Once dry, cut 31 2×5-inch heart shapes from the sheets. Cut 8×6-inch pieces of colored paper and fold each in half to make a card. Glue cutout hearts to folded cards. Write, “My heart’s in a swirl!” inside.

Shiny sharks: These creatures (backed by clothespins for a fully functional Jaws effect) are sure to inspire toothy grins. Start by drawing the shark’s top and bottom halves as shown or tracing our template (found here) on glitter cardstock.

Cut out the halves, then apply tacky glue along one side of a clothespin and adhere them. Place the shark on waxed paper to dry. When the glue is dry, slightly bend one tail section forward so that when the mouth opens, the tail parts smoothly pass one another. Glue on a sequin eye. Cut a paper heart (we used pinking shears to trim a “bite”), write your message, and glue the heart to a treat.