Valentine's Crafts for Kids

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Get Ready for the Day of LOVE...

**Valentine's Day**

*Saturday, February 14 2015*
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I've gathered up a few of my kids crafts and activities to help you celebrate this wonderful day with those special little valentine's of yours!

Lets put the LOVE back into CRAFTING!

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**Heart Dog Valentine Craft**

Via My Kind Of Introduction

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**DIY Pirate Valentines**

Via My Kind Of Introduction

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**Heart Shaped Bird Feeders**
Via Alpha Mom Blog

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**Photo Heart Bookmarks**

Via My Kind Of Introduction

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**Hershey's Kiss Valentine's Ring**

Via My Kind Of Introduction

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**Boys Shark Valentine Boxes**
Via The Joy of Boys

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**Folded Dollar Bill Hearts**
Via Muslin and Merlot

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Make a Valentine's Bookmark ~ Kids Craft

DIY Valentine's Day Bookmark ~ For the Kiddo's!

Valentine's Day is just 9 days away and soon kids will be taking all their little friends Valentines to school. Why not mix things up this year? Instead of buying Valentines this year, why not make them? I have a few projects for Valentine's Day, you can find them at the bottom of this post. How about Valentine's Day Bookmarks? They're easy enough that your kids could make them for their classmates as Valentines! You can even add a photo to them!


All you need is:
An empty cereal/gummy box
2 Colors of Construction Paper (We used red and pink)
Glue
Scissors
Small Photo (optional) 

*Crafty Tip* ~ If you have old bookmarks laying around the house, you can use those instead of the box but you will still need the cardboard for the heart.

Cut a rectangle in the size that you want. (I used a credit card to measure the width and left the length as the size of a normal sized gummy box - 5 1/2 to 6in is a good bookmark size) 

Cut a Heart shape that is a little bit bigger than the width of your bookmark. 

Trace your bookmark shape onto the color of paper you chose. If your bookmark has writing or pictures on both sides and you don't want those pictures to be a part of your finished bookmark then trace the bookmark twice, side by side. Make sure you have a double bookmark drawn onto your paper (Like the photo)

 Trace your heart onto the color of  Paper you chose. It's best to trace it twice. One on each side (trace once, flip it and trace again) so that your colored paper will fit perfectly on both sides of your heart. 

Glue the paper to your templates. Make sure that if you doubled your bookmark color then you need to fold on the center line and glue the bookmark in between the fold to cover the whole rectangle. 

 Glue your heart to the top of your bookmark.

 You can leave it the way it is now and be finished or you can decorate it.

 If you would like to add a photo then all you have to do is cut a small rectangle that covers your photo and fits on your bookmark. 

Cut a small square in the center of your  rectangle and place it over your photo. (You just made a frame)

Glue the photo to your bookmark (acid-free glue works best with pictures) 

Once your photo is glued down, glue the 'frame' over your picture and your DONE!! 

This craft takes all of about 10 or 15 minutes and it helps get kids wanting to read so they can use their new bookmark!  


Other posts you may enjoy!

 Getting Ready for Valentine's Day
 Easy To Make Valentine Rings out of Chocolate Kisses
Valentine's Day Heart Dog Craft



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Photo Card Valentine's Day Cards

Valentine's Day can be so frustrating when it comes to sitting your kids down and having them fit their names along with their classmates names on those tiny little cartoon covered cards.

That's why we make our own Valentines! Each year I go on a search for new ideas on how to make my daughters' Valentines their own. I believe I hit the JACKPOT this year! Has anyone seen Photo Valentine's?

The teachers at my daughters' school seem to have the same idea but not with Valentine's Day.

Their are so many options but the most common pose is taking a photo of your child holding out their fist toward the camera. Print the photo and cut a small slit at the top and bottom of your child's fist then slide a sucker through the slits so it looks like your child is holding out the sucker. You can either type something on the photo before you print it out or you can use colorful markers and write the message yourself (or let the kids)

Below is a photo of a Photo Valentine made like I described above. I found it on Landee See, Landee Do.

Landee See, Landee Do also had a couple other ideas for the Photo Valentine for boys and you can check them out at her blog by clicking HERE.

I have a few ideas of my own that I'm gonna try out real soon. One being a Light Saber idea from pinterest. I'm not sure what blog it came from but it's very cute. It has the same concept as the one above but instead of a sucker you use a glow-stick! It's perfect for boys who like Star Wars. Below is the picture I found on Pinterest or the Light Saber and another one of the sucker idea (also found on pinterest).

 

(Photo found on Pinterest)

(Photo found on pinterest)

 I believe the glow-stick in the Light-saber photo is already glowing but if your going to do that option with your kids I wouldn't activate the glow-stick, I would let the receiver of the Valentine get the joy of lighting the light saber. I'm pretty sure the glow will fun out before your child made it to school even though it would be really cool for the light saber to be glowing.

All these ideas have made me come to realize that my little girls are going to have more than one option of Valentines to pass out this year. Who knew making your own Valentines would be just as hard to decide as it is to go to the store and pick out just one of the many options on the shelves.

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