Valentines!
I have not written a blog post in awhile!! Sorry, time just gets away. Thought I would share the valentines the kids are handing out to their friends and teachers this year.
I pinned several ideas on Pinterest and let the kids decide what they wanted to do.
For Savannah, we did the same thing we did last year.
I made a design in an Excel document and printed 4 on a page. The top says "Have a KOOL Valentine's Day". The bottom says "Love" with 2 hearts and a place for her to write her name.
The middle is blank to attach a package of Kool-aid. We taped that in the middle, glued a piece of color card stock on the back, put that in a clear bag with a twisty straw and there you go!! I got the idea from this pin. She has a free printable you can use. It was easy to make my own too.
Cost: (made 18 valentines)
$3 for 3 packs of 6 twisty straws
$3.60 for 18 packs of Kool-aid
$1 for pack of 25 clear bags
I think, if I can still do math, that comes to less than 50 cents for each one.
Simple & easy and since no one from her preschool is at her current school it was easy to use the same idea :).
For Landon, we went for a Mustache theme. We liked this idea found here, but I knew he would not like "I Mustache ask you to be my Valentine". So I combined that idea of a cut-out mustache and sucker with this idea with a different saying and came up with this.
I printed a picture of a mustache and used it as a template to cut 18 mustaches out of black foam pieces.
I made the card in Excel and printed on card stock. (4 on a page)
Punched a hole in the mustache and put it on the sucker. Punched a hole in the card, stuck the sucker stick through the card and taped the stick to the back of the card.
Who doesn't want to eat a sucker & have it look like you have a giant black mustache?
Cost: (made 18 valentines)
$2 for 2 bags of blow-pops
89 cents for a piece of 12x18 black foam
Something like 20 cents per card.
Fun & easy to make!
Teacher gifts. Found the idea on Pinterest, but the link goes no where. A box of brownie mix with a spatula.
The tag says "Shooting for Brownie Points".
Savannah also has 5th grade friends. Had to make them a happy too. Bought small water bottles at Hobby Lobby for $2 each. Stuck a pack of M&Ms in each one, then cut their initial out of vinyl to personalize them.
Googled "M" adjectives to make different M&M tags like:
Thanks for being a Magnificent and Magical 5th grade friend.
(Savannah picked Magical :)
Didn't they turn out cute?!?!?!
We are excited for Friday!
