Our Valentine Projects

Valentine's Day.  The time when getting creative is all over blogs and lots of mommy's are discussing what "we're" going to do for our kids.  This year I wanted to be cheap...but that also meant more time-consuming.  I was half-way wishing I went the easy route when nothing seemed to be going right in the craft department, but we pushed through and ended up loving our valentine's.

For Jace's, I thought I would use the rest of a huge bag of Dum-Dums I got awhile back.  I saw a cute idea on a mom blog (which I can't remember which one right now, ugh!), so I thought I would try to recreate it!

I took a picture of J holding his hand out in a little fist.  Added some hearts in PicMonkey.com and a little tag that said Happy Valentine's Day.  I wish I would have also put Love, Jace, but that detail slipped my mind and I had to hand write.  Could be worse. :)

I could not be more in love with these Valentine's.  They turned out hysterically beautiful.

For Haylie, I got a good idea on this FANTASTIC blog.  Anna created print-ables, but I just wanted to have a tag instead of a bag topper, so I recreated a tag off of her creative ideas.  For this I used Canva.com.

So we made our playdough from her post, divided it into 18 pieces for her friends at school, created a tag and tied it on.

And I forgot to type Love, Haylie on this one too, so she got the fun project of writing it on the back!

For our Valentine's Day party on actual V-day, we made heart cookies!  Chocolate + peanut butter = best Vday ever.  So, I let Haylie stay up a little bit late to help me make these for our friends the night before.

And just for fun, here is a pic of our Valentine's from Daddy!  Flowers for me, one rose for Haylie and cookies for all of us!  He sure does love us :)