Valentine’s Day Craft For Kids

Happy Valentine’s Day!

While many think it is a cheesy day created to sell endless cheap crud from all around the world to those that are willing to buy, I am thinking that it is a good reminder to hold close those that I hold dear. Often it is easy for me to forget to have gratitude for those I love because I am too wrapped up in my own thinking, my own expectations, whatever it is I have to do next on today’s ‘list’.

As I type this up, I am also making breakfast for the kids in which they want in bed. Of course they got up before me, so as soon as breakfast is done they plan to crawl back in bed to have it ‘delivered’. Right now they are squirreled away making Valentines at our kitchen table yelling, “Don’t look! Don’t look!” every time I walk by…

This is a sweet day.

Yesterday to celebrate we made beautiful tissue paper votive holders, the idea of which came from Homemade Serenity, to use as our centerpiece for dinner tonight. The kids loved it, although like their father, they don’t enjoy getting their hands completely messy which this project requires.

We all tore the white tissue paper, but only mama cut out the hearts!

Painting the mod podge glue all around the outside of the jar, refraining from painting the bottom.

First we added the white tissue paper to the jar, then we added the hearts. I found as I did mine after the kids were done with theirs, that you really need to do more than one layer of the white tissue paper to cover the jar. The white tissue paper got see through in some spots.

Here little man is adding glue to his hearts to put on his jar. I found it fine to just put the hearts up on the jar and then add some glue in spots with my finger.

Mama’s finished product.

And wallah! The kids hid theirs from their Dad so they could surprise him today. I had to light them after everyone was in bed to get this shot!

I didn’t have to buy anything for this project which makes it extra appreciated. I had tissue paper, mod podge which I used instead of the starch glue, and jars. All I had to do to get the jars was to open my glass cabinet. If you remember we have been using glasses we get from the store for mayo, peanut butter, chai tea concentrate, washing them when they are empty and putting them in the cupboard. Which makes it especially easy to not care when craft time rolls around, or one hears a crashing sound from the kitchen.

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