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Heart template
A page of matching heart outlines in the size you pick, from about 1.5 inches to one large heart filling the sheet. It is for cards, garlands, stencils and classroom crafts.
- Set it up your way
- Print or PDF, Letter or A4
- Free, no sign-up
On this page
A heart outline is one of the shapes people most often want and least often draw well. By hand, one lobe comes out bigger than the other. Here the two sides are mirror images, so every heart on the page matches.
What prints
The page is titled "Heart Template". Under the title is a short instruction line telling you to cut each shape along its outline, or to use it as a stencil to trace. After that, hearts of equal size fill the sheet in rows. The widest part of each heart is about the size you choose, and there is a little gap between neighbors so you can cut one out without clipping the next.
No name line or answer key is printed, as the sheet is only shapes.
The settings
- Shape: the page opens on Heart. You can switch to another outline, or to a mixed page of all eight.
- Size: four choices, Small at about 1.5 in, Medium near 2.4 in, Large near 3.5 in and One per page near 6.5 in. It starts at Large.
- Dashed cutting lines: solid by default, dashed when switched on.
- Print the shape names: puts the word "heart" in small grey type under each outline.
Choosing a size
Small hearts are for confetti, gift tags and scrapbook corners. Medium and Large work for valentines, window hangings and felt or fabric patterns, where you pin the paper to the cloth and cut around it. The One per page heart is for a wreath, a banner letter backing or a big card front. Print at Actual size (100 percent), because "fit to page" quietly shrinks the hearts.
Plain paper does for tracing. Use card stock, about 65 to 110 lb, when you want a sturdy stencil you can reuse, or for a card front that has to stand up.
Worked example: a classroom valentine garland
A teacher wants 24 hearts for a hallway string. She picks Large, prints four pages on pink and red paper, and has each child cut one heart. Children write a kind sentence on their heart before it goes up. The hearts are punched at the dip in the top and threaded onto yarn in a mixed order. Two pages of hearts spoil, since children cut on the line unevenly, so she keeps a spare page. The offcuts go into a box and later become confetti for the class card.
A parent making a baby shower banner would do the same thing with One per page, using one heart per letter. Give younger children blunt-tip scissors, and cut the small hearts for them yourself.
Related shape pages
For an outline that is not a heart, try the star template or the circle template. The shapes to cut out page mixes all eight in one sheet. NRICH, linked above, has ideas for using shapes in play.