Valentine's 5 fun activities -- plus some

Since tomorrow is the big day and I've had 2 parties to plan, I thought I would share some of the activities we've been up to!

Lollipop flowers




















I just used flat heart shaped suckers in the back, di-cut some flowers and added ribbon. For Nate's buddies we left it at that, but for Ellie's school party we're sticking them in cellophane bags with little hearts that the kids are going to make into coupons like: free cuddle, read one book, clean my room, make my bed. . .

Making and decorating cookiesToday *and* tomorrow.

Broken heartsThis is for Ellie's class tomorrow. Hand out half of a heart to each kid in the class and then they have to find their match.

Hot Heart
Basically Hot Potato but with a stuffed heart. If the heart lands on you, everyone has to say something nice about you. Awww, so sweet.

Conversation heart cards
These were for the little boys to do. Basically I drew a heart and they glued the little hearts in the card. At least what they didn't eat.

Steal My Heart
This is a game for Ellie's class using more conversation hearts. You put a bunch in a bowl and the kids have to use a chopstick to see how many they can get out in an alloted time.

Heart Finger Puppets












Left is how they *should* turn out, and to the right are the boys. Remember they're only 3. And boys. They were more interested in sticking their fingers through the holes than decorating them OR taking a picture. I couldn't even get Nate to turn his around to show me.

Valentine totesBasically just two paper plates, some shapes and ribbon. The gluing was the most fun for them. These were for them to stick all their lollipops, crafts and Valentines in.

And yes, Chelsea-- that's Nate in his PJ bottoms. I knew you could relate. I forgot to get him dressed while I was running around getting ready for the party.

2/14 -- Dang it! I have some super cute picture, including Ellie and her crush, but I decided I'd better not put them up since I don't really know their parents all that well. So here are the 3 pictures I have where you can't really see anyone else's face.We missed Her teacher's b-day, so we had a little surprise party at the end. I made a flower pen for each kid to give her and then we sand and had cake. You can tell Ellie thought the surprise was so much fun.
I think every kid in the school wore red today. Ellie had to wear her boots of course.