Homemade Valentines

With 3 kids, I have to bring 42 Valentines to school next week(oops, thats 42 kids and 6 teachers so thats 48)! So far we finished the 10 we need for Jamie’s class and we started some for Ethan’s class.

I gave Jamie some shaving cream paint and a glitter shaker and let her loose with that. Then to “help” her finish them I quick stamped some red hearts and the letters I and U (I heart U). I think they came out pretty cute (but I was silly to use some red papers because it didn’t show up very well on the red ones).

*TIP for signing name: For kids too young to write their name or those too young to write it a million times you can write their name in glue on a piece of cardboard and let it dry overnight, then the kids can place it under the paper and do a crayon rubbing to “sign” their names to their valentines. You could do glue hearts as well and make the whole valentine card one big crayon rubbing but since we already painted the fronts of cards we’re just doing this for Ben and Jamie’s names,

For Ethan’s I had a nice idea for making puffy hearts:

1. Have mom hold heart cookie cutter on paper
2. Have kid apply shaving cream paint inside of heart
3. Kid then shakes on some glitter
4. Then mom holds down paper while kid pulls cookie cutter straight up and off paper
5. The puffy hearts came out really nice and he added an I above the heart and a U below it with letter stamps and plain red paint (the puffy shaving cream & glue paint doesn’t stamp).