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Kid Made Class Valentines

February 12, 2018 By Erica Deuel 1 Comment

Kid Made Class ValentinesAre you making Valentines with your kids for a class party this week?

Our kids’ school does their class party on Friday, so maybe you have a few days still to get ready. If you are finding stores picked over or want something kind of handmade, try making these fun paper valentine’s with your kids!

Kid Made Class ValentinesMy daughter is really creative. I gave her some paper, heart stickers, pipe cleaners and a hot glue gun and she ran with the supplies and made these all on her own. I stood back and watched her dream up fun valentines for each of her friends.

Her process was simple. She cut a heart out of fun papers and treated that heart as the body of a fun little valentine character. She’s been using a hot glue gun for years, so I wasn’t worried. You can also do this step for your child if you want to help teach caution with that tool. She hot glued pipe cleaners to be the arms and legs. She also used heart stickers to be the arms. My favorite part is every little character is different. It helped the process of making 23 valentines for her classmates not seem as tedious.

Kid Made Class Valentines

Kid Made Class ValentinesKid Made Class Valentines

Kid Made Class ValentinesI don’t know about you, but I don’t buy fruit roll-ups a lot. There’s something about that red, waxy substance that just doesn’t seem like food. Now, this was a fun opportunity to buy something my girl views as a “treat” yet it’s not candy. She’s going to be eating a ton of candy at her class party anyway…why not let her have/give something she enjoys as a special treat, but that’s a little bit different for some extra fun!?

Kid Made Class ValentinesI love that she glued her valentines to her fruit roll-ups to look like the guy was holding the fruit roll up or standing on it. Seriously. She is so creative!

Kid Made Class Valentines

Kid Made Class ValentinesShe worked really hard on these little characters and is so excited to give them to her friends this week! If you have some paper on hand, this could be an easy valentine to whip up with your kids this week.Part of the fun of creating with your kids is just the opportunity to sit and talk with one another. Enjoy!

If you have the opportunity to create these, tag me on social media, so I can see! #spoonfulproject

Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you have a great week loving your friends and family well!

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Valentines Day Mantel {& a quick DIY}

February 1, 2013 By Erica Deuel 4 Comments

DIY Valentines day mantel

Valentines Day is what my husband and I like to refer to as the Hallmark Holiday.  We are not huge celebrate-ors of flowers being priced twice as high as their normal cost and all the high pressure to show the one you love that you care.  We come from the belief that should happen ALL the time, all 365 days of the year.  Random flowers bought, special notes left, and taking out the trash mean more to me when it is not forced upon.  Can you relate or is Valentines Day something special to you?

Although we are not HUGE Valentines Day people, we do have small kids who love holidays and get really excited about new decorations going up.  So, as a mom and DIY/homeschool blogger I feel to let the holiday go by without doing some special crafts and mentioning them would be a no-no.

This week, I decorated our fireplace mantel from different things we had around our house or cheaply bought/made.  I am going to break it down for you, show you a quick DIY, and I have a SWEET tease at the end.

You might remember my Stick Heart Wall Art, in which I showed you how to make the focal point of my mantel.

wood stick heart

Since I posted the original pictures of this wall art, I have been gathering more sticks and filling in all the gaped holes.  I like it so much better than what it use to be.  Although, it is not quite done.

Next, I left my Ikea lanterns in place and started adding other thing to it.  I grabbed the huge purple vase out of Reagan’s room with dried roses.  I added this old maple syrup bottle in which I stuck in my straw flower I picked up on my Savannah’s girl trip last year.  I wrapped twine around a honey jar I bought (and ate) at the Country Living Fair last fall and stuck some red berries in it that I cut off a bush in my backyard.

valentines day decor

I still love my little Bird’s of a Feather Valentines I made for my kids from old spaghetti jar lids, so of course they had to be up there.  The little love wood sign is not quite complete either, but it is on loan for my mantel.  Once I finish it, it will be a part of a fun group giveaway (that I will be sure to let you all know about).

Lastly, I draped some fun heart garland that I bought at the Dollar Tree and made some fun 3d paper hearts that I hung from it.  I originally was going to sew some felt hearts and stuff them with Poly Fil, but I decided that I didn’t want to spend the time to make such a temporary decor item.  This was my substitute creation.

3d diy paper hearts

Materials:

  • scrapbook paper
  • hot glue gun with sticks (no burning was involved like on my last hot glue gun craft)
  • scissors
  • jute twine
  • pom-pom balls

materials for vday craft

Fold your paper in half (I used 12″ x 12″ sheets) and then fold it in half again.  By doing this “double fold” you will be able to cut out two hearts the same size.

how to cut a paper heart

paper hearts

Cut as many double hearts out you want.  I created four 3D hearts, so I had eight paper hearts cut out.  Once you have cut out your hearts, start gluing them together, but leave a gap open at the top.

glueing craft heart

heart envelope

It will feel like you have a heart envelope.  Stuff a few pom-poms (the size of your pom-pom & hearts will depict how many pom-poms you stuff) inside.

craft heart stuffing

Add a little hot glue, and stick the jute twine (cut the desired length for you) on it and glue your heart shut.

glueing heart

vday heart

valentines day craft

craft hearts

Just complete that process till all your hearts are done!  I think they came out really cute!  They were so much quicker than sewing felt hearts.  When Valentines Day is over I’m going to let my boys rip them open and take out the pom-poms.  They will love it!

3d paper hearts

So, what do you think?  Do you decorate for Valentines Day?  How will you celebrate the day?

valentines day mantel

Now for my little tease!  There was a whole scene and plan my kids were scheming up behind my mantel photo shoot that I can not wait to show you with lots of pictures and a VIDEO-coming this weekend!  Stay tuned!

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