It's a little late for some of these suggestions, but you can always file them away for next year if you like.
- Create a Valentine's Tree. A friend of mine purchased a white Christmas tree during the after-holiday clearance time. She decorated it with white lights, heart ornaments, and heart tinsel. (see photo above) The kids could hang any Valentines cards they received.
- Create a "Countdown to Valentines" calendar with a special Valentine themed activity for each day.
- Make a giant (non) Hershey's kiss. Melt a bag of chocolate chips. Use the kind of chocolate you like to eat: milk, semi-sweet, or dark. Set a greased funnel (small end down) on a sheet of parchment paper or a cookie sheet - somewhere from which it can easily be removed after the candy has cooled. Pour the melted chocolate into the funnel and let cool. Create your own variations by adding a spoonful of peanut butter as you are filling the funnel (makes a peanut butter kiss), adding nuts, or melting Andes mints along with the chocolate for a mint kiss. Let your imagination soar.
- Help your child create one-of-a-kind handmade old-fashioned Valentines (directions later in post if needed), or let them create a lovely yet simple 3D heart Paper craft.
- Make a special gift for someone in need of some TLC. (Think nursing home, shut-ins, singles, sick people, those who have recently lost a loved one; you get the idea.) These Valentine Tear and Paste Activities for Kids would be easy to make for this use.
Handmade Valentines Cards
Supplies:
- Construction paper - pink, red, white (any or all)
- Glue
- Stickers (scrap booking stickers are great, but any will work)
- Real lace or a heart-shaped paper doily
- Scissors
- Pen or markers
- Glitter pen or regular glitter (optional)
- Cut a large heart out of construction paper. (A nice idea is to cut out another smaller version in a different color to glue on top of the big heart.)
- Cut your paper doily so that you can glue it around the edge of your heart. You can also use real lace to glue around the edge.
- If you cut out a smaller heart, glue it on top of the large heart.
- Write a Valentine's message in the center.
- Add stickers, glitter, and other decorations as desired.
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