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valentine’s day

We’re Ready for Valentine’s Day!

After adding some painted details (we used acrylic craft paint) and sparkly white yarn, the heart necklaces are ready for gift-giving:

This year, we didn’t have a whole classroom to make Valentines for.  But, we do have some special family and friends that we wanted to send sweet messages.  It was pretty much a use-up-all-our-extra-stuff Valentine [...]

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Air-Dry Clay Hearts

Today we had fun squishing, rolling, and cutting hearts made from air-dry clay.

We punched holes with straws, so we can give Valentine necklaces to some special friends – and we’ll keep some for ourselves, too!
We gently pressed in sparkly sequins – everyone agreed this was the best part!

We also made some little decorations and pendants, [...]

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Ladybug Valentines

These are the Valentine cards that Natalie made for her Kindergarten class last year.  She came up with the idea herself – pretty cute!
For the card background, she painted big pieces of paper with red, pink, and purple paint.  When they were dry, we cut them up into card-size rectangles.  You could also use extra [...]

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