Valentine crafts

The past week the weather has been chilly.

We have spent our evenings working inside

on Valentine's Day crafts.

I don't know who likes to craft more.

Me or the boys?

Here is our first project.

We made a card from each boy for MiMi and Pop.

We used an empty toilet paper roll, dipped it in paint, and created very abstract hearts. 

Here they are gluing cut out hearts to the inside of the card.

Griff putting a lot of love into his card.

This is so scary.

Letting a toddler loose with red paint!

To add an extra element of danger it is a tempera paint and not washable.

(I guess we all learned a little something from this project)

Nothing like living on the edge! :)

Me and my crafting cuties!

Seriously, how can you not love this face?!?

Inside finished product.

We mailed the cards to MiMi and Pop.

They enjoyed receiving love letters from their favorite boys.

Here is our next project.

Valentine color heart craft.

The first night we had to create the crayon hearts.

He had to unwrap the crayons and cut them into smaller pieces.

Next, Griff filled the heart molds with the cut up crayons.

Next up set in the oven to bake.

Baby Bear watching a little lovin' in the oven.

Once the crayons cooled we took out of the molds.

On another night we had to attach the crayons to the cards.

Here are Griff and Baby Bear attaching Zot dots to the crayons to stick to the cards.

After the hearts were attached to the cards we then stamped their names on the cards.

Ta-da!

The cards look adorable!

(I must confess I skipped a step.  I ran into these pre-cut hearts that we used as the cards.  My goal is to simplify people!)

Here is our final Valentine craft.

We literally hand made cards for Satch and their teachers. 

I do not have pictures of the making of these cards.

Why?

Because I had 2 little boys hands covered in paint.

That's why!

I started out with great intentions.

Once the paint came out it got a little hectic.

I actually imprinted their hands upside down.

I did the inside of the cards first and later realized that the card was now really upside down!

Not a problem.

The upside down hand imprints still worked out just fine.

I then cut the card and used a hole punch and attached with ribbon.

Anything NOT to pull the paint out again, right?!?

Here is the card that they made for their Daddy. 

And here are the cards for their teachers.

We had lots of fun creating these fun crafts and cards for some of the people that we love most!

Lots of love was put into the making of this.

xoxoxox