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Invisible Valentine
By Laura S. Sassi

Your students will have fun using watercolors to reveal the secret message.

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Valentine card
What you need:

  • scissors

  • white construction paper

  • white crayon

  • pen


How to make it:

  1. Cut out a heart from white construction paper.
  2. Use a white crayon to decorate the heart with designs and a message. Press hard.
  3. On the back, use a pen to write: "Brush the other side with watercolors pink to find a secret message in invisible ink!"
  4. Give the valentine to a friend. When he or she paints the other side, the message will be revealed.