Make a "Punny" Valentine Card

Examples read: "You make my heart pop", "I go bananas for you", "Bee my honey", and "We have chemistry together".
Creative activity: Use homophones, puns or play with words to make fun and clever  Valentine’s sayings. Then combine them using stickers, drawings, images or emoji in Markup to make a custom Valentine card.

What you’ll need:  iPad + optional Apple Pencil or Logitech Crayon + optional downloadable background images

Participants:  Individual

Time needed:  20-30 mins

Resources:  Create a Sticker Collage and Reimagine Photos with Markup

Instructions:

  1. Think of a clever Valentine message or expression that can be combined with images to put on your card.
  2. Take a photo of an object or person and turn it into a sticker. (Optional)
  3. Refer to the Create a Sticker Collage activity to download backgrounds and view detailed instructions. 
  4. Choose a sample background image or any image of your own.
  5. Edit with Markup to add any combination of stickers, drawings, text or emoji. 

Go further: Use the Personalize a Postcard downloadable Keynote theme to make two sides for your Valentine or to add voice recordings or video messages.

     

Two-sided Valentine with photo stamp, audio message, planet earth, and person saying, "You mean the world to me."

1 reply

January 23, 2025

This is fantastic! I do a similar activity - which I will now update to this amazing idea - in physics. I task my students with using the vocabulary or concepts from the year so far to make up punny physics cards.

Thanks for sharing these instructions!

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