Because we had a pretty good inkling that Wednesday was going to be a snow day, I had everything ready for a busy activity filled day.
One of the things Wendy and I did, was make the Valentines for her class party.
There's just something about making Valentines that I love. I don't care for the character type cards that are so prominent in the stores, so this is just something that I've always done with my kids. It's also a good mid-winter doldrums breaker. It's hard to be down when working with pinks and reds, hearts and love and stuff.
We dug out the M&M's, and I cut a variety of Valentine appropriate paper to size. I then handed my Creative Memories Corner Maker over to my 9 year old and had her make happy corners on her Valentines. She did good.
After she was done rounding corners, I handed her the printed off sheet of to/from that she had typed up and she scalloped the bottom edge of each of those, and punched a hole in the top of the patterned paper.
It was then time for the M&M's. We laid out all 31 of the heart party favors (from BoBunny) and put a spoonful of M&M's in each. The boys anxiously waited for this part to be over because they had dibs on leftover M&M's.
She then slipped the corner rounded to/from tag into each party favor and closed it up nice and tight
She then tied a pretty red ribbon in each, and packed them all up to bring to school. They really were fun.
Some other fun Valentines ideas that I've bookmarked:
- I'm Wild for You. I want to remember to do these with Brian next year for Kindergarten. I love them! They'd work perfectly with my Zoology stamps from Technique Tuesday! Remind me!
- Heartbreakers. Okay - these ones we'll do for Brian's first grade.
- Fist and a sucker card. I have to do these too. Mark - kindergarten - 2012- check (Design Mom's version - just popped up as I was creating this post)
- Smarties Airplane. Allan did these when he was in kindergarten
- Sucker Flowers. Wendy! Next year!
I need more kids.
I'd love if you've seen any other great ideas for kids valentines if you could share in the comments!
Happy Valentines weekend!
Be good
ohmygosh, sharyn! those are SO adorable! love, love, love. how cute would these be as wedding favors too!? thanks for the link...i enjoyed peeking at the others too!
i just made another batch of sucker flowers last night for ashlyn. i just grabbed a bundle of pink carnations from walmart & pulled them apart instead of using the heidi swapp flowers. while they are easy and quick, i think i would have gone batty making 30 of them because kids and gluedots don't mix, LOL! we made enough for teachers. she has 6 with switching classes & art/gym/music.
anywho. we made our own valentines this year too, but i can't photograph them because i still.don't.have.my.camera.back. grrrrr.
Posted by: tania | February 12, 2010 at 07:32 AM
Wow! THese put our valentines to shame...love the BoBunny containers. We will have to do that next year :)
Posted by: chris | February 12, 2010 at 09:56 AM
so cute sharyn! my girls wanted store bought this year....bah hum bug.
Posted by: wendy | February 12, 2010 at 10:04 AM
those are just too cute!
Posted by: ShellyJ | February 12, 2010 at 11:00 AM
super, super cute valentine's sharyn : )
Posted by: Mary Rogers | February 12, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Love them! You are so creative! In the future if you have the itch to make more, you can always make them for my girls to bring and then I can look like a good mom. :)
Posted by: JoLynn | February 12, 2010 at 12:20 PM
So cute!! I'll make that my goal next year, to make the valentines. Lexi would love it! These by far outshine any store bought ones!
Posted by: Laura K. | February 12, 2010 at 12:28 PM
Those are THE cutest valentine treats. Love the heart containers.
Posted by: Sherry Cartwright | February 12, 2010 at 12:37 PM
Those are the cutest Valentine's ever...
Posted by: sue | February 12, 2010 at 05:00 PM
how very cool!
Posted by: yvonne | February 12, 2010 at 05:00 PM
Too darn cute! We can't send in anything edible. *sigh*
Posted by: slammie | February 12, 2010 at 05:41 PM
Cute!
Posted by: Laura (vanmama on 2Peas) | February 12, 2010 at 06:55 PM
Those are perfect. Love 'em!
I did the fist and the sucker ones, after trying something that was clearly going to take 36 hours to make all 75 that were needed.
I was pleasantly surprised that it only took me an hour and a half to make them (if you dont' count the photo shoot) and they were a huge hit!
Posted by: Lara | February 12, 2010 at 09:14 PM
Awesome Valentines! Good job Wendy!!
Posted by: Deb Wisker | February 12, 2010 at 11:44 PM
So adorable!! What a good, creative mom you are!
Posted by: Mindijo | February 14, 2010 at 03:52 PM
I've been reading your blog for about a month now and thought I should say, Hi! I have had some chuckles along the way! Very fun reading! :)
I made valentines for the first time this year with my kids (more just to save money) but man, nothing like these! LOVE the idea - you are so creative! :)
Posted by: Sara (from Menahga) | February 20, 2010 at 11:07 AM
I loved the idea! Where can I find those plastic containers/bags? I wanna use this idea for my son's 1st birthday party. Please let me know ASAP. Thanks...
Posted by: Maureen | December 22, 2010 at 12:04 AM
I LOOOOOVE ALL your ideas!
WOuld like to know where I can purchase those heart shaped party favors.
Thanks
Posted by: Cecilia | January 14, 2013 at 03:45 PM