valentine’s day

Love Bug Pet Rocks

Thumbnail image for Love Bug Pet Rocks

Painting rocks is fun, and turning painted rocks into cute critters is even more fun! Why not make a bunch of love bug pet rocks with your kids? Here’s the simple how-to: • Head outside and find a perfect rock. • Paint your rock and let it dry. We use acrylic paints for the best [...]

Continue reading →

Valentine Fairies

Thumbnail image for Valentine Fairies

Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of talk about making Valentine cards, but not much action. A quick look at the calendar today sent both my girls into a Valentine-making frenzy! I had a pretty good feeling that Natalie would want fairies to be involved with her Valentines – she is [...]

Continue reading →

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 [...]

Continue reading →

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 [...]

Continue reading →

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 [...]

Continue reading →