Toddler Valentines

I never liked Valentines Day. Well, that isn't completely true. I liked it as a kid until I hit middle school. I loved getting some cute little heart shaped goodies in my lunch box from my mom. Now that I'm a mommy, I'm liking Valentines Day again. I think it should be a day just for kids.

I wanted to share some of the Valentines Day projects and things Moose and I have been doing. Moose had a bunch of her friends over and they made these butterflies. Well, technically one is a caterpillar because her one friend did not want the wings on. Toddlers are so funny.

I took paper rolls and painted them ahead of time. I also punched holes for the antenna. I have found that toddlers do best with crafts that can be done in five minutes and kept really simple. The kids were able to put in their pipe cleaner antenna, affix the sparkly eyes, and decorate the foam heart wings themselves. The best part was I already had everything for them. The hearts were left over from last year, we always have pipe cleaners around, the jewel eyes were from my scrapbook stash, and the rest was from Moose's random crafty box.

Moose still wanted to do some more crafting, so she got some of the left over hearts and started gluing lots of pompoms. The girl used lots and lots and lots and lots of glue. It was a mess, but she had so much fun so it was worth it.

I wanted to share some of the snacks I made for Moose's friends. I tried to keep them fairly healthy, but all the really cute ideas seem to be candy related. My favorites were the arrows made from pretzels and little heart gummies that I found. A lot of the hearts got eaten, but the sticks were often left behind. I also made little heart shape sandwiches.

Have a happy Valentines day!

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Fish Finger Glove Puppet

I just love being back east and being with all of my family for Christmas, but I don't like the travel and I really don't like the germs. We managed to bring back with us some lovely east coast germs. Little Moose took it the hardest and still is a little bit sick. Anyways, I finally got the chance to get back onto my computer and I just have to share with you what my sister-in-law made for us. There are a bunch so I'll share one every day this week! I love the bright colors of the fishes! Each glove puppet came with a poem. They are just to cute!

Valentine's Day Wreath

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Scrapbooking, Adore

Every once in a while, I make a layout that I absolutely love and this is one of them. I think it might be the rainbowness of it all that I love. This is really a random photo of my daughter that I took while we were waiting for the bus. I played with the photo on my phone and made it more rainbowy. I really like how it came out, so I printed it out for my project life, but then I decided it needed its own page. It really is a random page for a random photo. This is my page for the Memory Nest . The circles on the sketch were my major inspiration. I felt that they would make a fun background. At first, I changed the circles to triangles and then I noticed all these old frames on my desk. I'm a chipboard frame hoarder. lol. I thought most of the frames were really ugly or they had patterns that I would never use. At first, I was going to just paint the frames white, but then I decided to make them gray. I'm glad I made them gray because now they

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