Valentine Craft

Ally is quite excited about Valentine's Day. Actually she is excited about all holidays right now - she is so into the calendar - she crosses off a day every day in a count down until we go to Florida to visit Grandma Barbie. Swimming, the beach, Grandma, an airplane ride she can hardly wait. She looks at the calendar every day and knows that when there are pre-printed words in a square it means something so she keeps asking me about the holiday when are going to be in Florida - will we celebrate that too? Its hard not to laugh at the idea of celebrating President's day! I keep trying to explain that its a day where we remember some famous leaders (presidents) of our country on their birthdays. I worry though - Christmas is Jesus' birthday so I am worried about the inevitable question about why we celebrate our birthdays and Jesus' birthday but not the Presidents. She wants a party. I have a feeling we may be having the first ever President's Party in Florida - watch out Grandma Barbie!

But Valentine's Day come first so we thought we should work on some craft projects. We saw this one on the cover of a magazine. You sponge paint a doily onto a t-shirt.

Ally was hard at work.
But always ready with a smile

Now the pink T-shirt.

Becky and I made them too so on Valentine's Day we'll have someone take a picture of the 3 of us in our Valentine T-shirts.

The finished pink one. We used pink paint on the pink shirt.

Ally wore hers to school the next day.