Love Heart Aerial Ball for Valentines

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This is the cutest Valentines gift for any car enthusiast - a Love Heart aerial ball. The heart has one of cupid's arrows going straight through it, to signify that it is love struck.

Aerial balls simply push onto the end of your car aerial personalising your car and making it much easier to find in that crowded car park.

To make the Heart Aerial Ball you will need...

Polystyrene Heart (You can find these in your local craft shop)
Some red and black enamel paints
Bamboo skewers
A black foam sheet and some clear drying glue for external use.

First push a bamboo skewer into the heart and the pointed part of the heart. This makes a great handle so that you can give the heart a couple of coats of red paint. Between coats you can stand the heart on its skewer in a glass.

You also need to give another skewer a couple of coats of black paint. You only need to paint half of the skewer, so again between coats you can stand it in a glass to dry.

Using the black foam sheet cut out 2 arrowheads and two arrow feathers.

Take the black skewer and cut of the unpainted surplus, and cut the remaining painted part in half. Stick the arrowheads to one of the sticks. Glue the arrowheads together with the end of the stick sandwiched in between making sure that the stick is well in and almost to the tip of the arrowhead. In a similar way, glue the arrow feathers to the end of the other part of skewer. Pegs make great clamps to hold everything in place whilst it sticks. Leave to one side to dry.

Use a new bamboo skewer to make a hole for the arrowhead part of the arrow to go. Push the arrow in and see how it looks and trim the skewer if it is too long. When you are happy, add some glue tot he hole and push the arrow into place.

Now make a hole for the feathers part of the arrow. Make sure that this part of the arrow lines up with the arrowhead otherwise you arrow will look bent. Again trim if necessary and glue into place.

Once the glue is dry it is ready for the car aerial! Wiggle the handle skewer that is in the point of the heart until the hole in the heat is about the same width as the aerial that it will be pushed on to. Then simply push the heart into place.

You could also try sticking wobbly eyes on your heart and adding a big smile with a black permanent pen. It looks fantastic and no one will have an aerial topper like yours, unless they have visited the Perfect Valentines website.