Valentine Ideas

There are soooo many cool Valentine ideas out there right now.  I'd love to hear what you're doing for your kids' Valentines and any Valentine decorating that you have going on in your house.
Here are some some inspirations around blogworld.
Last year we made these for E's class after being inspired by Skip to my Lou!

Another cute one with a pencil (love the candy alternative) at Skip to my Lou!

And from Family Fun Magazine, another candy alternative!

Jac o' lyn Murphy was brilliant with these rulers (I think we'll do this for M's class) and also wiffle balls!

Pittypat Paperie has a really cool s'mores Valentine.  This would be great for a teacher gift!

Teach Mama (one of my favorite blogs!) has a super easy one the older kids could do all by themselves!

These handprint hearts at Roots And Wings Co would be perfect for Valentines for grandparents.  They are also really cute in a simple black frame.

Hope those gave you some good inspiration!

D

Let it snow...

Another snowy day in Delaware.  "M" made it off to school but will be back early, but "E" is home for the day.  And since she's home, I of course hear, "can we do crafts today?"  She's a crafting/arting/crayoning machine!  She's working on her own masterpiece now, but earlier she helped make the Valentine crayons for her class.

Aren't they pretty?  You gotta go to the dollar store and get crayons for this, it's so cool!





Then go to Target and get these cute little ice cube trays (in the dollar spot).  We ripped all the papers off (very, very tedious my friends!), broke them into pieces (very satisfying!), and grouped the pieces according to color in the ice cube trays.  Like so...

Put the trays on a cookie tray and in the oven at 200 degrees for about 25 minutes.  Take them out, let them cool, and pop em out!



Now we just have to bag em and tag em!  I can't believe we're finished those!  I'm usually a procrastinator on this kind of thing. (Okay, on MOST things!)

UPDATE:  Here is the finished product bagged up and with the cards attached:

I downloaded the cute little cards here at the long thread!

Happy crayoning!

D