Residents of Suffolk’s Autumn Care have received Valentine’s Day cards from some pint-sized admirers.

The Suffolk Sheriff’s Office has partnered with Elephant’s Fork Elementary students this year and did so again by having several deputies deliver the cards the kids had created to the nursing home Thursday.

Maj. E.C. Harris, the city’s chief deputy, said the sheriff’s office thought it would be “something nice” for the children and the elderly folks at Autumn Care, while also teaching the children about the importance of paying it forward.

“We have been going out there and doing some programs and visiting,” Harris said of the relationship the sheriff’s office has also started with the nursing home.

Students were eager to show off their creative handiwork to Harris, Nate Goodwin, Sandy Toby and Cpl. Tommy Salmon, along with civil enforcement secretary Katie Jones, when they arrived at the school in the morning to collect the cards.

“The kitty and its rainbow tail,” replied one girl when asked for her favorite part of the card she designed. That was just one small glimpse into the creativity that was unleashed.

Another student, Grant Ireland, explained, “I did a little design of hearts rotated 180 degrees, so it looked like hearts were raining down.”

Bubble gum was the motif employed by Reginae Faust, who said she was happy that her card would be delivered to someone who might not receive so many such tokens of human kindness.

Za’Niyah Ryland painted a bunny, accompanying it with “Hopping you a happy Valentine’s Day.” (They were encouraged to invent puns, Title I teacher Caren Bueshi said.)

Ryland said she felt like she was “being a good citizen.”

Jones said the idea grew out of the fact that the father of another deputy with the sheriff’s office, Wilson Wright, is an Autumn Care resident, and she has three grandchildren at Elephant’s Fork.

“There’s a lot of folks over there that might not get visitors,” she said. “We will be spending a lot of time doing projects at Autumn Care.”