Valentine's Day

I wanted to share the Valentine's projects that we have done for this year because they were just so fun to make and we really had some quality time together while creating, planning and ultimately giving these gifts. My number one was to make this sewn paper garland. We purchased a heart puncher and some really pretty craft paper and I let the boys just punch away.

Then I sewed two hearts together back to back and just kept feeding them through the machine until we were out of them. It made a very long garland which I think turned out just beautiful. Now everyone can enjoy it :) While the boys were doing their nightly meditation i hung this up and when they came out they both noticed it and sincerely commented on how pretty it is~ awwwww :)

E's project for his school Valentine's turned out really cool also. We wanted to find something to do that was a little more "grown-up" since he is in fifth grade now. He would have made heart cards if he had to but I found this really great idea to make boxes this year. We got some awesome card stock sparkled paper and bought up every color they had. Here is a tutorial on how to assemble the boxes: http://blog.robertscrafts.com/2011/10/halloween-baskets-barb.html. E wanted to staple them together and picked out the five staple design himself.....little budding artist :)

Next, we added some really cute heart shaped cookies from http://www.sweetpeacebakery.com/ into small paper bags and added a sticker to keep it closed then carefully stuffed the bag into the boxes.

Hopefully the fifth graders will love this little homemade treat!

J chose something completely different to make for his Valentines. Neither of the boys went traditional with a card this year. J is really enjoying string right now. He has learned a ton of string games (which are incredibly stimulating for the brain apparently) and also he is really into knitting with his fingers and the knitting needles. He has collected so many different colors of yarn for the past several years and decided to make a little bag of balled up yarn for each of his first grade class mates. Then he put a little sticker on the end to hold it in place :) Cute cute cute all around <3 Happy Valentine's Day!