valentine

Easy Valentine Bookmarks

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Today I’m joined by my real-life friend Susan, amazing mom to a 2-year old and a 4-year old, who I’ve known since our blanket baby days. She made this simple Valentine Bookmark with her 4-year old last week and I invited her to share it as a last-minute Valentine’s Day gift. Welcome, Susan! My daughter’s preschool loves [...]

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How to Make an All-in-one Valentine Envelope

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This post was first shared in February 2011. If you like to make your own Valentines but you’re pressed for time (or have a small and impatient child), all-in-one Envelope Valentines could be the way to go. Turning a heart-shape into both a Valentine and an envelope is a delightful way to surprise the card’s [...]

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Kids Valentine Ideas – How to Set up a Self-serve Card Station

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There are some adorable store-bought Valentine Card options for kids, but there’s nothing quite like making your own Valentine’s Day cards. One of my strongest Valentine’s Day memories is of cutting and pasting doilies with hand-cut hearts, and this is a tradition that I’m excited to pass along to my own children. One of the [...]

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30 Valentine Activities for Kids

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My stats are telling me that a lot of you are searching my site for Valentine’s Day ideas, so I thought I’d pull together a mother-lode of kid-friendly Valentine activities for toddlers, preschoolers, and any other hands-on kids (grown-ups are welcome too). My 4-year old sort of tricked me into buying her a pack of [...]

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6 Kids Valentines Day Activities

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We’ve been crafting up a Valentine’s storm, which mostly means that three-year old N has been collaging all our self-serve bits and bobs of Valentine goodness into a taped-up, glued, and spackled hodge podge of Valentine craziness. In other words, we’ve been having fun, but it’s not something anyone else would likely take inspiration from or worth [...]

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Self-serve Valentines for Kids

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I’m working on a project with the San Francisco Children’s Creativity Museum, and one of the ideas we’re playing with is to create a buffet-style selection of materials for children to choose from in our DIY art zone. I’ll share some of our activities with you soon, but in the meantime I thought you might [...]

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Valentine Snack

Since we started cutting hearts in our house last month, I’ve grown to love Valentine’s Day in ways I didn’t foresee. Actually, forget Valentine’s Day — holidays in general have taken on a whole new meaning with children in the house. Everything is amplified. The mailman’s delivery foretells the arrival of potential Valentines. Cookies have [...]

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Deconstructed Valentines

Our neighborhood market does a good job at displaying an appealing array of holiday goodies just as you enter, and I’m often a sucker for such marketing ploys. They recently set up a lavish Valentine’s ordeal, and before even getting close to the milk aisle, I already had a shaker of heart sprinkles and a [...]

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Sweet Potato Heart Prints

“A life without love is like a year without summer.” – Swedish proverb Now that our light-up snowman and twinkly lights have finally come down (yes, we’re those people!), we’ve been talking up Valentine’s Day and all things hearts. While I see it as a holiday full of commercial hype and overpriced flowers, I’m reminded [...]

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