Sometimes a Valentine's Day card doesn't have a play on words (like our Starburst or Airheads cards) with the candy at all. Sometimes the color of the candy offers the inspiration. Perfectly yellow, little drops of sunshine inspired our "You Brighten My Day" homemade Valentine card. These cute handouts will be for my son's Kindergarten class.Let me tell you, once I got this idea in my head, it was HARD to find little boxes of Lemonheads. So, I'll save you the trouble. On Amazon you can get … [Read more...]
Love is in the ‘Air’ Valentine Card
Ever year we try to think of cute, creative and clever Valentine's to make our children for their school parties. My husband and I look at the candy available and then think of cheesy sayings and designs to put them on. This year, my daughter is getting a heart card with an Airhead mini to pass out to her classmates. I always love it when I can squeeze a pun into their Valentine cards.Here is the design we came up withThis cut file includes the front of the heart with the … [Read more...]
Kids Valentines Cards You’re a Beary Good Friend
It's our favorite time of year - time to make cheesy homemade Kids Valentines Cards. My kids look forward to this every year. My husband and I come up with several ideas and they decide which they want to take to school. This year the overwhelming favorite from all our options was this darling paper bear cut out holding a bag of mini gummy bears with a sign that says "You're a Beary good friend, Valentine." I think all three kids are going to take it to their parties. Kids Valentines Cards … [Read more...]
Red Hot Love Cake
Spice up a plain pound cake with some red hots to make this Red Hot Love Cake (insert the Daniel Tiger song "We're Making a Love Cake"). The pound cake recipe is from Paula Deen so you know it's good!Ingredients1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan 1/2 cup vegetable shortening 3 cups sugar 5 eggs 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan 1/2 teaspoon fine salt 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract(1 box of Red … [Read more...]
High Five Valentine
If the choice is between a candy Valentine and a noisy Valentine, which do you choose? If you picked noisy, then stick around and I'll show you how to make these darling DIY High Five Valentine printables featuring a small hand clapper toy for your kids. These were a huge hit in my kid's class!As I previously mentioned all the Valentines I made for my kids this year were non-candy. If you are interested in more non-candy Valentines check out the "I Spy My Valentine" with a toy magnifying … [Read more...]
Starburst Valentine’s Day Card
It's time to start thinking about what Valentines your child wants to take to school. This is a really fun and easy Valentine that your child can give to all their friends. Once you have the card printed your kids can help cut, glue on the stars and tape on the candy.Step 1 - Print out the shooting star shapes and starsStep 2 - Cut out shooting star shapes and the stars. I have included a printable for the shooting star shape and the stars. For those of you with a silhouette cutting … [Read more...]
I Spy My Valentine
Without doing it on purpose, the theme for my children's Valentine's this year is non-candy. I bet parents and teachers appreciate non-candy Valentine's since during their party I'm sure they get enough sweets. I don't mind handing out candy Valentine's, I just didn't get the inspiration with candy this year. I am, however, in love with this I Spy My Valentine card. Buy the kit:I LOVE the "I Spy My Valentine" cards we made this year. My husband really loves them since he secretly … [Read more...]
Parachute Printable Valentine Card
Buy it now:Valentine's Day is drawing near and it's time to get those creative juices flowing. Because I LOVED our non-candy cards from a few years ago (I Spy My Valentine, You're The Star of My Show, High Five Valentine) I wanted to find another awesome toy to turn into a Valentine. So this year our non-candy, super awesome toy Valentine is the Parachute Printable Valentine Card featuring a parachuting animal!Have you ever seen parachuting toys? All I had ever seen before … [Read more...]
Valentine’s Day Candy Bar Wrappers
Have you thought about what Valentine's you are giving out this year? If you are short on time here is an easy idea. If you are handling out full size candy bars this Valentine's Day (first off, congratulations on being the most popular person in the room) here is a cute and easy way to make it more like a gift with scrapbook paper.By simply wrapping the candy bars with some Valentine's Day themed paper and adding these cute printable labels you instantly have a homemade gift that … [Read more...]
Holiday Printable Bingo Boards – Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter
The beginning of the year is pretty fun because we have 3 fun holidays right after each other - Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, and Easter. The kids are always excited to celebrate these holidays and so to make it easy, we created a bingo game for each of them. When the kids ask what are we doing to celebrate, I bring out the bingo boards. If you want to make it extra fun, buy daubers that are related to the holiday. For example, candy hearts for Valentine bingo, green beads for St. … [Read more...]
How to Make Rainbow Heart Valentine Crayons
I love homemade Valentine gifts. When it comes time for my children to have their Valentine's Day party school we have so much fun thinking of cute ideas of things to make for them to hand out. These heart crayons make the perfect Valentine handout! Most kids will give candy, so you can stand out from the crowd by giving homemade Valentine's Day crayons.Do you remember the Valentine craft list? Well on that list was some heart crayons. I LOVED making those crayons last year for my … [Read more...]
White Chocolate Dipped Oreos
Love is in the air as Valentine's Day approaches. My kids love to celebrate each holiday so I have been having fun creating treats for my kids for Valentine's Day. My first treat of the Valentine season was these cute White Chocolate Dipped Oreos. I actually used Mint White Chocolate, but you can use whatever chocolate you prefer. If you would like to recreate these tasty, yet beautiful treats, here is what you'll need.Supplies:Candy Wafers for dipping … [Read more...]
Robot Valentine’s Day Mailbox
My kids love going all out for their Valentine's Day mailboxes. Once Christmas wraps up discussions begin on what theme they want their mailbox to be. At our schools the kids have a big Valentine's Day party and so each child brings a "mailbox" to collect their Valentines from their classmates. My son was very excited when the idea of a robot got brought up. It seemed easy enough, so here is how we created it using our Silhouette Cameo . The Box The box that we used for our robot is … [Read more...]
Hot Air Balloon Valentine Mailbox
Valentine's Day is right around the corner so it's time to think about what your son or daughter will be using to collect Valentine's from their friends at school. Why not a hot air balloon?Materials12 x 12 cardstock (varity of colors) Small brad Straws Small basketSupplies you needpaper cutter or scissors stapler clear tape small hole punch hot glue gunInstructionsCut the cardstock into 1 inch strips. You will need two strips of each color. We … [Read more...]
You’re the Star of my Show Valentine
It may be true that at your child's Valentine's Day party there is going to be so much junk food that you don't want to contribute to that with the Valentine they hand out. In the past I hadn't ever really thought the amounts of sugar until I helped with the party. Last year the room Moms in my daughter's class threw a very fun party, but boy was there a lot of junk food getting consumed! Since I didn't want to add to the sugar-fest this year we created non-candy Valentine's that you can simply … [Read more...]
