VALENTINE POP-UP CARD
This card is cute and easy to make. Color it. Cut it out. Fold it. Give it to someone you love!
Valentine’s Day Fun Facts:
It’s on February 14th every year.
It was celebrated in ancient Rome as a day of love. The celebration was called Lupercalia.
Cupid was the Roman god of love. Legend says that he would shoot an arrow into people’s hearts to make them fall in love.
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love. The red rose is associated with her. As the story goes, her tears and the blood of her true love Adonis watered the ground where red roses later grew.
In 1415 a political prisoner named Charles wrote a valentine poem for his wife. It said, “I am already sick of love, my very gentle valentine.” This is recorded as the first valentine ever.
In the 17th century people started exchanging homemade valentine cards.
Valentine cards were mass produced in the 1840s. A woman named Esther Howland sold cards embellished with ribbon and lace.