The kids and I love to make crafts and cards for every holiday, we have been doing it since they were itty bitty....the whole table gets covered in scissors, glue, tape, markers, crayons, paints, glitter, ribbon and scraps of paper. It is so much fun and I look forward to every moment with them. Well, first we did some really cute boxes that we are going to fill with goodies for their teachers. This craft came from http://www.marthastewart.com/ where you can find all kinds of cool craft ideas. I am on that website pretty regularly, since I am a HUGE fan.
Then we got into my art supplies from college and found my water color paper, which makes working with watercolor paints so much easier for kids. I traced a cookie cutter heart 9 times on two sheets of paper and then each child painted them with watercolors the way they wanted, notice I told them to paint outside of the lines on purpose, here are pics below:
Hayden's paintings
Vanessa's paintings
Then I cut them out and strung them together to make a garland and it turned out so pretty. I must apologize for my photos though, for some reason it just wasn't capturing the finished result the greatest because of lighting but you can get a glimpse of how cute it turned out.
Next up will be some Valentine cupcakes for Vanessa's classroom, she is so excited to decorate them! Stay tuned! Hope you have a very Happy Valentine's Day!
