My Funny Valentine

I love my Funny Valentine and I am pretty sure he loves me.

Happy Valentines Day!!!!!

Momiji Doll

I love, love, love these little Momiji Dolls and so do my girls. We found ours at a cute Japanese book store in Southern California but you can buy them online here too. The dolls are small, sturdy and adorable but the best part is the little piece of folded paper that slips in the bottom of each doll for a wish or a love note. A love note? How wonderful! A love note for your favorite Valentine- don't you think that would be the perfect gift? I know I do.

The boxes they are packaged in are almost as fabulous as the doll itself!

Currently my girls use them in our newly remodeled doll house but I kind of like them on display in little nooks and crannies throughout the house. I think I might need to add a few more of these little lovelies to my wish list :)

Valentine Lunch

I thought this was the cutest idea EVER. I found it here and tried it out for my two girls for their Valentine's lunch. I used candy boxes from the dollar section at Target and filled it with food I knew my girls loved. The container on the left held cheese, cucumbers, olives, tomato, toast with cream cheese and blackberries. On the right is a heart shaped corn cake with honey butter - YUM!

Happy Valentine's Day

I am looking forward to celebrating all of the amazing love I have in my life. I hope that you are doing the same.

More Valentine Fun

It is amazing all of the fun things that are out there on the internet to do with the kiddos. Some are brilliant new ideas and others are fun ideas that you forgot about years ago. This was one of those projects that I used to do as a kid with my mom but totally forgot about it until I found it here. Basically you take fresh carnations, recut the stem to the length you want, place them in water, pour food coloring into the water and lastly watch the flowers change to that color. Not only do you end up with beautiful and colorful flowers but it is a science experiment too!!!!

My little ones thoroughly enjoyed doing this project. We did it the night before their Valentine parties at school so they could take them in for their whole class to enjoy. We also sent some home with the neighbor kids and placed a big bouquet on our dinner table. Simple, easy and fun - now that is my kind of a project :)

Hand Made Valentines

I love Valentines Day and I love making hand made Valentines with my girls. This year we used a method I found over at Let's Explore. You can find it here. It is a print making technique that is super easy and fun for kids to do. This is how it is done:

We used a small cookie sheet that I picked up at the dollar store and placed masking tape on it to mark out the size of our print. Using acrylic paint and a sponge brush my girls covered the area inside the square as carefully as possible with the paint. If we got paint outside of the square we just used a damp sponge to clean it off.

Next using a Q-tip the girls made a design in the paint. Then we took our card stock, placed it on top of the paint and pressed down hard. There you have it - a one of a kind print on each card! We found that each application of paint made about 2 cards.

Now for the extra fun part. Using glitter glue I let the girls go crazy decorating around the prints. This was messy but FUN!!!

Here are just a few of our finished products. We ended up having to make almost 70 cards!!! We have a lot of Valentines this year :)