Valentine's Day

Each year we try to come up with inventive, creative valentines.  The store bought ones are generic and are great for tight situations but I like when expression is put into their projects.  This year each child had some great ideas for their valentines

 

Mylee chose to make her friends picture hearts.  29 children in the class and 2 teachers, that makes for a lot of pictures.  I cut out hearts using my scrapbooking toys.  We used quite a few different mediums to get it perfectly right because they included a lollypop. 

So we found photo paper worked the best. Did you know that markers dry incredibly fast on photo paper?  All markers dry super fast on photo paper. 

So after cutting 2 slits in each heart and attaching her lollypop to them, each of her classmates had an authentic Mylee picture heart with their name written on the back.

Kiya opted for something a little different.  Using her rainbow loom she made friendship bracelets for all her classmates.  Her valentine read "Our class would Knot be the same without you".  To her surprise her friends didn't quite get the joke. 

For her best friend in her class, Kiya made a heart charm.  And she has been addicted ever since.

I love watching her with MY tablet following instructions on making some of these wonderful little creations.  I think it expands her creativity and also gets her thinking on how to improve some of her creations.







Each of us got spoiled on Valentine's Day by Darryl.  We each got a stuffy and some chocolate, it was a really nice surprise!!!