Posted by: kirksonya | February 12, 2011

Snow Days/ Valentine’s Day activities

We’ve had MANY snow days here.  One too many for me.  It’s given us a chance to do all our Valentine’s day crafts and lots of other crafty activities though.  We’ve made Valentine’s sugar cookies, heart flakes (where some really just look like snow flakes, but the kids don’t care), heart activity Valentine’s for all their teachers, and this other sticky heart activity that the kids loved doing but it definitely was messy.

First up, the Valentine’s for the teachers.  It’s made on a clothespin with a magnet on the back so that the teachers can put it on a filing cabinet or something….

Can you tell they want nothing to do with me taking their picture? They just want to get started.

The finished products....I'm sure you can tell which ones were made by a 2 year old by looking at sticker placement and her drawing :-)

Next up, the Valentine’s cookies.  Always a hit at this house.  And, the best. recipe. ever.  You can find it at Three More Bites.

Look at that concentration! She has her tongue sticking out she's working so hard!

Look at all those yummy cookies!!

We then moved on to the heart flakes. Andrew loved doing these, Kayla did most of it and then got frustrated, and Kenzie and I did hers together.  Ours don’t look exactly like the example.  Some look like hearts on the outside and some look like regular snowflakes, but the kids loved them and that’s all that really matters, right?!?

Appropriate given all the snow/ice/sleet we had outside

Last, but not least, the sticky hands, warm hearts craft.  It was definitely sticky hands.  My kids aren’t so much for getting their hands messy so I did that part.  So, no pictures of the process just the end result.  They did harden enough to hang over time, but ours took longer than the 24 hours that it said.  The kids were happy with them.

in the drying process....

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