Simple, cheap, non-toxic  dough hearts- You heat up water and then add to  2/3 corn starch to a 1/3 baking soda in a bowl not on the stove top. Remove from heat  let cool. add a few drops of red food (or break up dough to make many colors) Help  kids form them into heart shapes. bake 5-10minutes at 250degrees and decorate hearts with markers or crayons. If it starts to dry out just add aa few drops of water to the dough. I also used this to make great ornamint gifts for Christmas with my step-son. And I made little inscent holders to go with them out of the same dough.

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Each child is a miracle! In each adult there lives the baby. There is an idea! The Valentine's day to devote to game - each adult of the house, in dialogue everywhere plays the adult person and наооборот - each adult - plays the kid and baby. A holiday to deliver to itself of creativity such what is. And each kid becomes for one day mature, the adult. I already imaginations this day and in this holiday to love a life one day as the little girl, cat.

Tools and Materials

One 3- inch clay pot
One 3 x 3 styrofoam
One Styrofoam cone (18-inches-tall-by-6-inches-wide)
One 18-inch long, 3/4-inch diameter dowel
gumballs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     heart shaped lollypop                                                                                                                                                           Aluminum  foil                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                heart foam sticker 
Hot-glue gun
Glue sticks
Moss                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Candy Topiary

1. Place Styrofoam inside the pot.

2. Force dowel through Styrofoam . Poke hole into cone.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

3. Add glue to dowel and affix cone to dowel. And  lollypop on top 

.4.Begin attaching the gum wrappers.  Make some space for the sticker.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

5. when the cone is completely covered with gum, fill the bottom of the pot with the red moss.

6.. If giving as a gift, wrap the finished topiary in cellophane and top with a ribbon

Owl Valentine

Supplies, Brown, red, pink and yellow construction paper, eyes, scissors and glue.

Prep: Cut squares of construction paper for the background, brown hearts (I printed a sheet that have the words "owl always love you" to use for the body of the owl. To make the head, simple fold a plain brown heart in half. Cut out three smaller yellow hearts for the feet and beak.

Assembly: Glue a borwn heart to the square of construction paper for the body and a folded hart for the head (point of heart should be up). Glue on eyes, feet and beak. Glue the tip of the beak down over the body to hide any spaces between the body and head. Trim background suare with patterned scissors and glue onto another square of paper to create a layered look. Leave roomto sign the bottom of your valentine, unless you prefer to sign the back.

CUPID OUTFIT

SUPPLIES

One white standand size pillowcase

Gold rope

Grapevine wreath

Baby's breath and mini red roses

Wings, bow and arrow from your local party store

This is a great little outfit to make for your Valentine's photos, it's so EASY and adorable, you will love it.  Take your pillowcase and hem, hot glue (my preference) or cut to the length you would like your cupid outfit to be.  Cut armholes on the sides and one for the head on top.  Wrap your gold rope around the waist and YOUR DONE with the outfit part.  Now for the "grapevine crown", get a small grapevine wreath from your local craft store and put some baby's breath and small roses through it, you can glue them on if you like but it is not necesary. 

Have fun sharing these photos with everyone in your family, this is still my favorite photo of my "Little Cupid"

This year we decided to get down and dirty :' ) and boy did we have fun !!!!!!

My 5yr old and my 8yr old -made hearts and heart pins made out of bread dough.

What is great this something that everybody can do and most people have all the ingrediants available.

Ingrediants: Bread, White Glue, Water, Dish Soap, Medium Size Bowl

1. Cut the crust off 7 slices of bread

2. Break the bread into tiny pieces and put it all in a nice sz bowl.

3. Add 1 tablespoon of water for all 7 pieces (you may need more), 1 tablespoon of white glue and 1/2 teaspoon of dish soap.

5. Knead your mixture until you get a nice consitency.

6. Make sculpture out of clay ( add and stick the brooch pin in at this time before it hardens if you want to make a brooch) than air dry for at least 24-48 hours.

7. Paint and decorate. Add glitter, picture, chipboard, ribbon etc

Tips:If mixture is too dry continue to add water slowly, Dont Eat The Dough !

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Thanks for letting me share, Norma Kennedy

I'll be doing an easy project with my duaghter's 2nd grade class.  Each child will trace their open hand onto a piece of construction paper.  They will fold and glue odnw 2 fingers to make the sign language symbol for I LOVE YOU.  The hand then will be glued to a red heart about 8 x 8 in diameter.  These can be purchased at teacher supply stores or you can cut them yourself from red paper.  One small foam heart will be placed in the palm of the hand and one btwn. the thumb and pointer.  They can write a message on hearts if they wish.  Easy and cute!

A Valentine Project to make with your Child to use at home and to send to loved ones

These Valentine Placemats are super easy to make and inexpensive too.  We make them in January to use all February.  We also send each Grandparent a set and some to Aunties and Uncles too. 

For this project you will need:

1 Sheet of White paper
2 Sheets of 81/2 x 11 colored craft paper (contrasting colors work best)
1 Sheet of colored paper (scrapbooking paper/wrapping paper)
1 silk/fabric flower with layers of petals
Printed pictures of your child – I printed mine from my computer on regular paper
Inkpad
Markers

Directions:

1.    Dip your child’s index finger in the ink and print a finger print on the white paper two times to form a heart shape.  Do this several times, as you will need a few to form the petals of the flowers.
2.    Trace around the fingerprints to define a heart shape, shade in with markers and cut out.
3.    Slightly trim a colored piece of paper and mat it onto a contrasting page and adhere to the largest paper.  Trim to a size of a placemat forming a rectangle if desired.
4.    Print pictures of your child and cut into circles to form center of flowers
5.    Take apart flower and adhere to paper (glue dots work great and are available at craft stores). Adhere printed picture
6.    Arrange and adhere cut fingerprint hearts onto silk flowers to form petals around picture
7.    Make as many copies of your project as desired at a local copy center.  Laminate each copy at a copy center.

Yay – your placemat sets are done.  My 31/2 year old wrote her name and I added the occasion and date as a memento.  We use our placemats the whole of February and they are super easy to keep clean – just wipe with a damp cloth. 

Thanks for the note about the pictures...I had a hard time attaching mine (due to the size), so it is in an e-mail that follows my entry for the Love Bugs in a Jar!

Love seeing all of the ideas!

Mom of 3 LOVE BUGS :)