Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Valentine’s Day Prep

In the week leading up to Valentine’s Day we’ve been busy crafting and decorating at our house.

 

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Ally really did not want to take her Christmas tree down in her room, so we bought a few heart decorations, Becky sewed a pink tree skirt and I made a paper heart tree topper. Viola! A Valentine Tree!

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I did a little looking on Pinterest for Valentine crafts. The one above turned out pretty neat and was simple to make – its all out of paper strips folded to make a heart and then glued together.

But below not so great.

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It was make your own window clings out of glue, food coloring an dish soap. You mix the ingredients and then paint them into a shape, we used hearts. It was kind of fun to do, but when they dried they did not really stick (or cling) to the windows. We made about 10 and only 2 are still attached. But it was a fun activity during the blizzard.

 

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I offered to buy Valentine’s for Ally’s class, and I picked out packages of gummy heart snacks. They are very cute and Ally was thrilled with them. She sat right down to write each friend’s name on a package. Then crossed out the name on the list as she went. She had so much fun!

Ally has also been hard at work on Valentine’s for Becky and me. It’s a very secret project but I did manage to get a picture of the artist at work:

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