Inexpensive Valentine’s Day Crafts and Activities
The first craft that we made was a simple white mug from the $1.00 with permanent marker on it, which didn’t quite work out. The claim is that after writing on the mug, it can be run through the dishwasher to seal the permanent marker. Instead, buy a porcelain marker – like this – as our attempted permanent market designed mug has already mostly faded. So sad that we tried the Pinterest permanent marker method, and yes, this qualifies as yet another Pinterest fail.
Signed by all three kids.
We made valentines for our family members, and Annabelle made two additional for her friends. In addition, she completed her pen pal letter, enclosing one of the valentines.
Valentine’s cards that I made for the children. The glitter glue and the camera didn’t agree, unfortunately.
We also started some heart shaped cinnamon rolls, and are bringing them to our home-school co-op class featuring St. Valentine. To make heart shaped cinnamon rolls, make your favorite cinnamon roll recipe, or use mine, and when making the roll, simply roll the two sides towards the center of the dough instead of in traditional log fashion, then bake as usual. They are featured, here, on Catholic cuisine. I think if you pinch the base of the heart closer together and put your rolls in the pan tightly, the gap can be eliminated. I will post pictures of mine on Friday.
The children learned about St. Valentine, and were surprised to find out that he wasn’t a chubby angelic creature with wings, carrying a bow and arrow. While I went over the lesson on St. Valentine, the children colored this page.
I want to eventually try the marker mug thing, but this time, I’ll do it with a porcelain marker. LOL I love making my own Valentine’s because it just reminds me of when I was a kid and we used to make them for classmates.
Love the crafts. Great for the little ones to do.
Great crafts – we make mugs every year and probably have more than we need in the house! This year instead of mugs I’m going to attempt to make cake pops
Wow, you’re brave with the cake pops. Another blogger posted a cake pops disaster that included a mess spread from her kitchen to dining room. They scare me! I ordered a dachshund cake pop bouquet, instead.
Love the craft ideas. Thank you for sharing.
Lots of fun craft ideas. I bet your children loved it. Thanks for the ideas.
The coffee mug is such a great idea.
Love the mug craft!