valentine’s day 2013: you color my world friend

February 6, 20181 Comment

I am happy to say that my kids agreed to give their friends something that is NOT candy this year!

We’ve decided on ideas for each of them, but have to wait until this weekend to put them together.

Until then, I thought I would revisit our no candy valentines from years past…this one is from 2013.

valentines

I found these adorable crayon packages at Target (in 2013, but haven’t seen them since)…you can currently find them here.

Tear pages out of the atlas (you can purchase an atlas here).

Cut out heart shapes…about 6″ large.

Glue a crayon pack onto one side of the heart.

Write “You color my world, friend!” on the other side.

Sign your name.

Share the love!

home is…homemade valentines.

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wild thing…

February 17, 201418 Comments

I am the mom that does not give candy to the kids classmates on Valentine’s Day. Believe me, my kids eat plenty of treats and that is why I try not to give them on Valentine’s!

The little guy is really into animals, so I wanted to incorporate that into the valentine’s he gave to his friends.

I searched Pinterest and found some great ideas…you can see them on my valentine’s day board.

This is what we came up with…

I used perforated business card paper and printed the saying on them.

We tore them apart, punched two holes in the paper, the kids signed their names on the back (make sure to do this before you tie the animals on, but after you punch the holes) and tied each animal on with twine!

I found the animals at JoAnn Fabric, but you can also find them at Michael’s.

The kids loved them!

Also, here is our no candy valentine from last year…

My favorite part of valentines day was spending time in the kids classrooms…

and Lorelai’s homemade valentines…

When I was assembling the animal valentines, Lorelai asked me for paper and tape and ran up to her room. She made her own valentines using her own crayons and some pictures she cut out from a book.

I love that she wanted to create and give on her own.

We stamped them with a “homemade with love…” stamp and signed her name.

home is…homemade from the heart.

you color my world friend

January 15, 20141 Comment

Valentine’s Day is in less than a month which has me thinking, and pinning, ideas for this years valentines!

I really loved what we came up with last year, but want to come up with something different.

Until then, here is a repost of what we did…

valentines

I found these adorable crayon packages at Target…

Tear pages out of the atlas.

Cut out heart shapes…about 6″ large.

Glue a crayon pack onto one side of the heart.

Write “You color my world, friend!” on the other side.

Sign your name.

Share the love!

home is…homemade valentines.

color my world valentines and a giveaway

February 11, 201315 Comments

Valentine’s Day is this week, and while I feel it is a bit of an over rated holiday (we SHOULD love our loved ones EVERYDAY) I still decorate for it and get excited about it.

More for my kiddos than anything else.

I wanted to go ALL OUT for Reece’s first Valentine’s party at preschool when he was 3, but held back because he was only in preschool.

Not to mention, I was an exhausted mom of a 3-1/2 and 1-1/2 year old and could only handle buying what was cheapest at the dollar store (is there such a thing?!) and MAYBE sign his name.

Last year, same story different year.

Although, I think I made HIM sign his name.

This year, I decided to do something fun!

Around here we are fans of maps and color, so I decided to combine the two…