A Teenie Weenie, SackBot and Puppy Valentine

A Teenie Weenie for Little Miss.

A Sackbot for Mr. Man.

 I tucked a little heart into the front of Sackbot. Mr. Man took it out. I knew he would. But I had to but it in, after all, it was Valentine's Day.

 I think he liked him anyway.

 Even Sackbot could not resist the mustache fun.

 Both Teenie Weenie and Sackbot were made from scraps left over from these pillows I made.

 The Kidlywinks made Sneakers a valentine. Too cute. In case you can't read it, it says, "Thanks for being the best puppy ever. Woof. Woof." He is one loved puppy.

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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Little Miss!

 Today I am making lasagna, baking brownies, wrapping presents and a little bit more. All in celebration of Little Miss. You are loved.

And to everyone else, Happy Valentine's Day!

Handmade Valentines

So what does a boy in grade three hand out on Valentine's Day? Well...mustaches of course!

I'm sorry Miss Gold for any craziness these mustaches may cause! It's hard to tell in the picture, but the mustache is actually made out of felt. Held on by double-sided tape (we put a piece of packing tape down first so that the mustache will peel off easily) these cute little guys are wearable.

Simple. Easy. Inexpensive. We printed off the words and a mustache image onto plain old white paper. Mr. Man cut them out and glued them on to construction paper. We added a felt mustache. And voila!

Now Little Miss is mad about Mad Libs, so will give out these. The idea came from here. (Lots of great ideas at Design Mom).

We changed up the packaging from the original idea. It's simple to do.

A strip of paper. A few cuts here and there. A heart to hold a rolled up Mad Lib. All ready to hand out.

Easy Valentine's Day Hoop Art

Just before Christmas, I finally managed to get some colour up on the wall with some lovely hoop art. (You can see it here.)  I loved it so much, I decided to keep it up all year, but the Christmas fabric had to go, especially with Valentine's Day fast approaching.

I acutally kept some of the hoop exactly the same, or simply added a little heart.  The red and green fabric was swapped out for some lovely vintage fabric left over from making these and these, and some grey & yellow fabric to match my newly painted walls.

I think this is my favourite. Shimmery, sparkly fabric with pockets. It's so easy to do. You can find the bunting here.

To make the pockets, fold your fabric almost in half.

Then fold it again so that 1st the raw edge is  3/4 of the way to the top and the 2nd raw edge is 1/2 way up.

Then insert the fabric into the hoop.

Next, I simply cut out some hearts from left-over wrapping paper.

On the reverse side, I wrote some activities that we could do to show kindness and love to each other. (Watch YouTube Videos is a family activity. Each night, Andrew shows the kids a YouTube video of the day. They love it.) Tuck the hearts in the pockets, and voila! Whenever the kids are looking for something to do, they can pull out a heart.

The red hoop is just as easy to make. Follow the same directions as above.

This time I took a paper bag and cut out some hearts. Then I wrote I heart u because... I used their favourite colours, so they know which is theirs and tucked them into the pockets. It's a sweet reminder of why they are loved.


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Valentines

I know Valentine's day has passed, but I thought I'd show you what the kids gave out for Valentine's Day.
They were a big hit.

These Valentines were fun and easy to make. We saw the idea here.
First, have your child hold out their fist and snap a great pic.

Then we added our Valentine message. You could use any photo editing program you have, or go to http://www.picnik.com/ like we did. It's fun and easy to use.



The Little Miss designed her own.




And I designed Mr. Man's

Next, print off your photos. Poke a hole (we used a nail) at the top and bottom of the fist and insert lollipop. C'est tout fini!

And a little love in the dinning room...



Hearts

Being a Valentine baby, we always try to include something heart-ish in the not-so-little girl's loot bags. This year we included heart-shaped bubble bath and these homemade lovelies filled with cinnamon hearts.

Drawing from inspiration we saw here, we made our own version.

First, birthday girl drew hearts on wax paper. She just drew each heart by hand, but you could print off a heart pattern from the computer or use a cookie cutter.






Then we sewed them using a sewing machine. We didn't worry about following the line exactly.

We trimmed the edges and then birthday girl filled the hearts while I sewed them shut. We made the hearts using a double layer of wax paper. The original hearts that we saw were made with a single layer of wax paper. We found that the other items in the loot bag quickly poked a hole in the hearts. We had no trouble with the cinnamon hearts escaping when we used a doubled the wax paper.