Kids Crafts | Getting Crafty for Valentine's Day

Girls wanted to make homemade valentines this year so after quick search on the internet - we came up with two great ones.  Felt Fortune Cookies for Zoe's friends and Clothespin Love Bugs for Lila.  

 

 

Felt Fortune Cookies

• Materials needed
• Felt sheets
• Hot glue gun
• Paper for fortune

• Find something circular about 4 to 4 1/2 inches in diameter
• Trace your circle onto some felt (we used felt sheets)
• Cut the circles out
• Add in your fortune - have the fortune longer so it sticks out on the sides
• Using a hot glue gun, glue center of the tops together.  Leave about an inch of each edge open
• Then bend it in half - the two edges touching and voila, felt fortune cookie

Once all the fortune cookies were made, we put the felt cookie and some chocolate kisses into mini take out boxes.

Caterpillar Love Bug

• Materials needed
• pom poms
• googly eyes
• pipe cleaners
• wooden clothes pin
• hot glue
• Glue a strip of glue on the back of clothes pin, leaving about 1/2 inch free on the end
• Place 4 pom poms onto the strip of glue
• Place some glue on the back of the googly eyes and stick them onto the first pom pom
• Cut 1/2 strips of pipe cleaner, bend in half and glue them on top of the first pom pom 
• Write your valentines note onto a notecard
• Clip the caterpillar onto the card and you're done

Both were pretty easy to make and did not take up too much time.  The girls loved making them and they were a hit with their class.

Family Fun | Valentine's Day Craft

With valentine's day coming up, it is time to get your craft on.  The girls usually like to make something to pass out in class so this year, after searching around on the web, we decided to make heart dough magnets and heart necklaces.  Our project is based on the one we found on Amazing Mae's blog.

Basic salt dough recipe:
1 cup salt
1 cup lukewarm water
2 cups flour
- Mix ingredients and knead until the dough is a nice smooth consistency.

Then the girls rolled out the dough and cut out hearts with a small cookie cutter.  For the magnets, we left as is and for the heart necklaces, we poked a hole with a straw before baking in oven at 200 degrees until it hardens (approximately 2 hours).

After they dried the girls went to town with some acrylic paints.  To finish them off, we added pretty ribbons to make the heart necklaces and for the magnets, we hot glued the magnets (round discs purchased from Michael's) to the back.

Girls were excited with the finished product and can't wait to pass them out in class.