Valentine Boxes

Do your kids make boxes to bring to class for their valentines? Here's what my girls and I came up with last night. Katelyn's is made out of a frozen waffle box and some extra cereal box for the rounded top. It's reminiscent of the street corner type mailbox. Isn't the flap cute?
{Instructions below!}





Lily's preschool class has six students, so this cereal box turned ipod is just the right size. Katelyn gave me the idea to make earbuds out of two foam hearts stuck together. Isn't she a paper crafting genius? I wonder where she gets that from?




So here are instructions on how I made the Valentine Mailbox:

Happy Valentine's day!

Advent Calendar

Well, as you all know, I get the best ideas from Heather's Oz-Some Blog. Here's my version of her mini muffin tin Advent Calendar. My kids get a long holiday break, so we've been doing activities from our calendar since December 6th. Here's part of our list and if you'd like to see some photos of our holiday festivities, go here:

Take a bubble bath and make Santa beards

Bake Cookies
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Make Holiday Tags with office supply labels

Make Paper Drop Ornaments http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=10496

Decorate a Gingerbread House Kit

Watch a holiday movie together.

Read Santa Mouse then play “Santa Mouse Hunt” together.

Set up the Nativity Scene together & read the nativity story.

Make cinnamon applesauce ornaments and set out to dry.

Decorate cinnamon applesauce ornaments with glitter.

Update:

The bubble bath Santa beards and cinnamon ornaments were huge hits!  Happy Holidays!