So I planned to make 15 different crafts from pinterest to celebrate Valentine's Day. Pictured here are the ones we got around to.
1. Heart shaped crayons
These would have been cute to include with Katie's handmade cards (see #2 below), but after peeling, peeling, peeling we ended up with too few crayons for her class. This craft was a literal and figurative "stinker". Kate helped with the color sorting, but soon lost interest in the peeling and went off to play. She rejoined me for the melting, however, she was appalled by the crayon smell wafting from the microwave. Most appalling though was when I dumped the melted orange colors all over the microwave. I left it in the sink to solidify. Best husband award goes to mine, since he ended up scraping the wax off later.
2. Handmade cards
Katie made Valentine cards using this kit and coordinating washi tape. Below you can see the help offered by Little Sis. Mostly throwing Valentines and working on her puzzle book.
1. Heart shaped crayons
These would have been cute to include with Katie's handmade cards (see #2 below), but after peeling, peeling, peeling we ended up with too few crayons for her class. This craft was a literal and figurative "stinker". Kate helped with the color sorting, but soon lost interest in the peeling and went off to play. She rejoined me for the melting, however, she was appalled by the crayon smell wafting from the microwave. Most appalling though was when I dumped the melted orange colors all over the microwave. I left it in the sink to solidify. Best husband award goes to mine, since he ended up scraping the wax off later.
2. Handmade cards
Katie made Valentine cards using this kit and coordinating washi tape. Below you can see the help offered by Little Sis. Mostly throwing Valentines and working on her puzzle book.
I pick up the pieces of this puzzle book 22,563 times a day. Guess that means she LOVES this book.
It is really exciting to see how Katie's writing has developed in the past year. She is now able to copy the names of her classmates from the list or write them as I spell them aloud.
Two of my favorite Valentines. See Char in the background there?
3. Cookie Pops with Jello frosting
We had a cookie pop making play date the day before the 14th. It was going great until I stopped reading the recipe and attempted to put the sticks in after the cookies baked! Did not work.
The kids rolled with it (get it? it's cookie dough humor). Char is loving the jello frosting. Mixing it up was probably the most fun for the youngsters.
4. Pink milk hearts
The grand finale of our V-day celebrations: pink milk frozen in to heart cubes. I used the pink milk recipe from Weelicious and a new non-crayola tainted ice cube mold to whip these up. Very tasty, if not very well photographed.
