Trust me, it can be hard work getting my youngest, now 7, to sit and make that many cards. Sometimes we have to do it in stages. But when the work is done, they have such a sense of accomplishment.
This year we took ideas from Family Fun Magazine. My oldest made the Tic-Tac-Toe inspired card found on page 71 of the February 2014 issue.
She made them with two different messages, one for her closest friends and another for everyone else. We used M&Ms for game pieces; her message and Tic-Tac-Toe game drawn onto card stock.
Wonder how many will play a game before they eat the game pieces?
We packaged the card and candies together into treat bags and taped them in the back with fun Valentine tape we found at Hobby Lobby.
My youngest made cards found on page 70 of the February 2014 issue of Family Fun Magazine.
We glued large googly-eyes to the bottom of chocolate kisses and put several into a treat bag. Each bag had about 7 kisses, with 3 of those kisses having the googly-eyes. We stapled the bag shut with a piece of folded card stock to share her Valentine sentiment: "I have eyes for you!", replacing the word 'eyes' with a set of smaller googly-eyes. She added some extra hearts just for fun.
But that was not the end of our Valentine fun. This year they needed to provide their own Valentine boxes. Though I do remember one year one of them making a box at home (we just added pink paper and heart stickers to a shoe box), most years they've made boxes at school.
For this project, we turned to Pinterest. My oldest decided on a robot she found.
While it's very similar to the one she saw on Pinterest, my daughter decided to skip the legs, change the arms and add a bow. It's just too cute!
My youngest has been a little Minion crazy lately, so it didn't really come as a surprise when she wanted to have a Minion Valentine box. There were several different versions on Pinterest, and we took ideas from several of them, including making his mouth as the box opening so Minion can eat the Valentine's cards. We made his goggles, arms and legs 3-d with the use of toilet paper rolls. He turned out very adorable and I hope he makes it to Friday because she keeps trying to feed him various toys.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7
