Happy Valentine's Day

I hope you have a wonderful day with the people you love.

Valentine...I have my eye on you!

So while pinning one evening, I found this cute valentine:

I loved it, but did not have a Cricut cartridge with a monster.  I also knew that my 4 year old could not cut something like that out, so I designed a monster valentine for my preschooler to color in.  

You can probably guess which one my four year old made.  I made a sample to show him what it could look like with googly eyes glued on.  He has loved coloring them in and they are all different.  On the inside he writes his name and is so proud of them.  I've always loved homemade Valentine's more than store bought ones.  Of course we will be attaching some sort of yummy to each one before he hands them out to his preschool buddies.  

I thought I would share, so here is a copy.  They print two to a page.  

I hope you enjoy it!  Let me know how they turn out for you.

Candy Canes

What to do with these extra candy canes that have not been eaten?  We are trying to take a sugar break (at least until Valentine's Day) at our house.  Well, during my daily cruise on Pinterest, I found this pinned:

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How cute are these!!!  The Idea Room has a great tutorial on how to make these.  I may attempt to make them this weekend.  I'll let you know how they turn out.  

Do you have any great ideas on how to use up candy canes?  I would love to hear your ideas.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope you have all had a wonderful day.  My husband and I celebrated on Sunday and this evening we enjoyed a yummy Valentine's dinner with the family (courtesy of Papa Murphy's).  I wasn't going to cook this evening!

You've got to lover their heart shaped pizzas for $6.  Enjoy your evening.

My Mission

Tomorrow my mission is to find what I need to make this:  pink hot chocolate!

How cute is that?  You see I have a boy and a husband, so the girly stuff is kind of overlooked by sports.  SO, I take full advantage of Valentine's Day and use the color pink to its full extent!  The marshmellows are even handmade.  I have never made homemade marshmellows, I would imagine they are very tasty.  The directions for this can be found here.



Valentine's Party

Today was the Valentine's party I put on for my son and his preschool friends.  We had 7 kids here ages 3-4, lots of energy and fun.  I had covered our table with krsft wrapping paper (easy clean up and it looks nice).  When the kids arrived, the colored on some valentine coloring pages I had printed out. 

Once everyone had arrived and colored for a bit, we headed outside to "hunt" for hearts.  I had hid at least 50 foam hearts out in the backyard.  The kids enjoyed finding them, re-hiding them and then finding them again. Exhausting!  Well after some outside time (the beauty of living in California...60 degress in February), we headed inside for a craft and snacks.  I had made the invites with an owl, so I stuck with the owl thing.  I had pre-cut an owl and various shapes from felt and let them deocrate it's face, stuff it and then glue it shut to make a pillow.  They turned out so cute!

For snacks I used a cookie cutter to make heart shaped cheese and put them on creackers, fruit kabobs, popcorn and some fun heart shaped cinnamon crackers.  For drinks, we had pink lemonade, with some of those fun red/white striped paper straws.

After some snack we were ready to go again.  We went outside for more playtime with balloons.  My intent was to play a game inside with them, but it was such nice weather that they just played outside and popped balloons, it was great and spontaneous.  Being a teacher, I have learned to just go with the flow, even if it doesn't go as planned.  The last thing we did was some good old fashioned cookie decorating.  Of course my son dumped the whole container of sprinkles on his cookie.  You can't even see his cookie, but it's there under the sprinkles.

Owl Valentine's Day Party

Wow!  It has really almost been a month since I have posted anything.  Slacker I am, actaully just been busy being a mommy and teacher.  But I did want to post some pics of a really cute owl Valentine party I stumbled across the other day.  It is much more elaborate than the one I will be throwing for my son and preschool friends tomorrow.

There are some more beautiful pictures here.  Tomorrow is our Valentine's party.  I will post pics this weekend sometime.  Have a great weekend!

Valentine's Party Treats

How was your weekend?  I have a three day weekend, so it is still going for me!  We have the day off in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.  I originally was looking forward to a sunny weekend, but the fog has not been lifting until late in the afternoons, so it has been cold.  I have been working on getting some of the details together for my son's Valentine's party.  The invites are going out tomorrow.  I am using the colors red, pink, kraft and white.  I am also going to incorporate owls into the party.  One of the food items I have been fascinated with lately are cake pops.  I bought the cake pops by Bakerella.  There are some great ones in there.  Of course the owl pops are ones that I am going to attempt. 

I am going to attempt them hopefully next weekend, so I can practice because they look a little complicated.  I'll let you know how they go.  I also bought a heart=shaped whoopie pie pan from Michael's.  I thought I may try to make these for him to bring to preschool the day of Valentine's Day. 

We'll see how worn out I am after the party.

Valentine's Printables- FREE

Shinding Parties has come out with another free printable.  This is perfect for my first grade class because we are the first grade froggies! 

Their printables are so cute and easy to do.  I love the tic tac toe games. 

Valentine's Day

It's hard to believe that I am already planning for valentine's Day considering Christmas just ended, but I am.  I going to have a little Valentine's Day party for the Brad and his friends, so I must plan.  I have lots of ideas floating around in my head.  I will share my ideas as well as others I find blurfing (blog surfing).  Here are the invites I made up.

I'm going to incorporate owls into the party to add some "boyish character."