A Valentine For You!

While Pinterest is one of my new-found favorite websites and inspirations, it has started to loose it's luster for me just a tiny bit.  As in, once Valentine's Day started nearing I could see what was going to happen.  Everyone was on Pinterest.  Everyone "pins" the same cute, totally awesome, fantastically cute idea for their kids' Valentine's cards.  I "pin" a cute idea to use and then so does everyone else in our playgroup/preschool classroom.  Then it is no longer a cute, original idea.

So, I spent some time on Pinterest to get inspiration and just got creative and came up with my own.  :)

Anderson's LEGO Valentine's

The Candy Blox actually stack like LEGOs!  I bought a two pound bag which was the perfect amount for the 30 cards that I bought for Anderson's classmates and playgroup friends.

Everett's T-Rex Valentine's Cards

Since Everett's friends are the "under two crowd", I opted for dinosaur crayons as the perfect compliment to his T-Rex cards.

Anderson was the cutest thing in the world helping me assemble both his and Everett's Valentine's.  He took great caution filling the bags and then placing the sticky dots to attach the bags to the backs of the cards.  He was so focused and intent on helping.  It was sweet to see his heart so set on making a gift for his and Everett's friends.

We also delivered Valentine's presents to the boys' teachers today. Anderson loves giving his teachers gifts.  He gets so excited and then when it comes time to actually hand it to them, the gets all shy.  SO cute!

I did find the print for the boys' teacher's gifts somewhere on Pinterestland.  I printed it at CVS, framed it in a cute Valentine's frame and created a sweet treat bag-topper to complete the "song set" theme.  Simple, cute, and very thrifty, which is nice when creating gifts for 7 preschool teachers!

This is a terrible picture! :(  It's a little bag of Hershey Hugs with the folded & stapled bag-topper.

 The boys' preschool combines Valentine's Day with Teacher Appreciation Day, so we also made cards for their teachers.  Anderson and I wrote how each of his teachers were wonderful ("They always say Hello to me" ; "They help me make crafts").  Everett's teachers received cards that were decorated with colorings and stickers by Mr. E himself.  ;)