Valentine's Day Garland

I can't find the "be my valentine" banner I made last year 😞and I decided we needed a little more pink 💗 and red ❤️ around the house since Valentine's Day is quickly approaching. 

I ran out to the local craft store and for under $5 picked up some twine and a package of glittered diecut hearts. 

It's just a simple matter of stringing them on in whenever pattern you desire.

Pretty soon you've got a georgous little garland to hang up and add some festive color. 

Do you have any Valentine's Day decorations that you made this season or in the past? Would love to see them. Post some pictures here!

Little Love Bug For Your Valentine

I found the cutest little free printable and the perfect stickers for my daughter to make Valentines this year!

This website has a free printable with a little mason jar and the words "heres a little love bug"

We found these stickers for just 97 Cents.

Print, stick, mount on some red paper for added color. Done!  

Free Printable Valenitnes

I love Valentines day and especially love coming up with creative little cards and gifts for friends and coworkers. Now that my daughter is in school her and I can come up with creative cards and treats for her classmates too.

I am thinking about printing her valentines this year because she has such a small class. Also, I can avoid throwing away 1/2 a package of valentines that I purchased.

I have used printable valentines before for my friends but it is extra fun looking for kid themed cards.

Since Valentines day is on the 14th I have collected 14 of my favorite links here for you:

1. Valentine you're a star- attach a starburst.

2. Frozen is still a hit so how about some free Frozen Valentines.

3. Love this one: Give a individual cup of applesauce to each kid with cute little printable labels to go on top that say "You're Awesome Sauce Valentine"

4. This website gives you a choice of 4 adorable animal themes; Dinosaurs, Owls, Ocean Animals, or Fairies. (There is also a Minecraft link on this page too.)

5. Instead of cards what about something they can use, a bookmark!

6. This is for my Starwars loving friends out there:
Yoda card- using a glow bracelet for a light saber.

7. Fish bowl shaped valentine- shown with gold fish but you could use Swedish Fish too.

8. Mustache and Lips cards- attach a sucker.

9.  Everyone loves Minions! There are some cute Despicable Me Valentines day cards on this site.

10. Do you have a surplus of rubber band loom bracelets sitting around the house? This might be the perfect way to use them: "Its a stretch but will you be mine". Bow and arrow card.

11. Who could pass up a cute little fox?

12. Monsters and googly eyes make everyone giggle and smile!

13. These cards would be more suited for friends and coworkers, the puns would probably go over the heads of elementary school kids. Five Pun-tastic cards.

14. What valentines day would be complete without a gift for your husband. These five tags are too cute to pass up. Print them out and tie them to a few things and surprise him leading up to Valentines Day. It might even inspire him to get that extra special present for you!

If you have created your own I would LOVE to see them and if you have more links let me know.
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Pinterest Heart Cake

The pin:

My attempt:

Ok, so I didn't quite nail it; but we had a blast making it.

Instead of doing a square and a circle I just used 1/2 the cake batter and made one circle cake and trimmed it into a heart shape. 

Then we went crazy with the frosting and the sprinkles. 

Valentines Door Decor

My daughter took this picture while we were in the midst of this craft. Thought I would share it. It gives you a sneak peak at my crafting desk… This area was semi clean, usually you can't even see the surface of the desk. 

Step one in this project is to cut out hearts. I used my Cricut machine and cut out a variety of 2" 2 1/2 " and 3" hearts in different shades of red and pink.

Punch holes in the hearts. Some in the top some in the side. It gives the finished product more variety.

Pick a ribbon, thread or twine. I chose to use a twine I had picked up during the holidays from the dollar bin at Target. The red and white lent well to the Valentine color theme.

Thread a heart on to a length of thread and tie to securely at the bottom.

Thread second heart on and tie above first heart, continue repeating this process.

After the first strand was totally finished I wised up and found it was easier to just thread a small loop through the heart over the area I wanted the heart located....

…then just simply pull the string through. 

Much faster!

We hung four of these I front of my daughter door.

The Lovable Raccoon

Supplies:

Construction paper

Scissors

Glue

Cut 1 large heart about the size of an 8x10 paper for the head.

Cut 2 medium black hearts about 4x4ish for the eyes.

cut 2 small hearts (3x3ish) in the same color as the face.

Cut 2 tiny black hearts to go inside the ears and 1 tiny black heart to make the nose.

NOT pictured but need are 2 one inch white circles for the eyeballs.

Attach ears to top of head.

Add small black heart for inner ear.

Add large black hearts for eye background and tiny nose at the bottom of the heart/face.

Add whites of the eyes.

Add small black circle (cut from scrap black or just use a marker) for center of eye . 

Finished products.

Never have raccoons been so loveable!

Love Bug Craft

Love bug craft activity (for those who are excited about valentines day)!

Supplies:

Egg carton

Googly eyes

Pipe cleaners

Constructing paper

Glue and scissors

Separate the egg cups

Cut two small hearts for wings

Cut a 4 inch piece of pipe cleaner

Make hole in the top of the carton.

Fold a pipe cleaner into desired antenna shape and insert into hole.

Glue wings on each side of body and add eyes.

Use marker to add nose and mouth (or in my daughters case pouty red lips and large eyelashes)

There you have your little love bugs!