I Love You Tons!

We were walking out of Olive's MDO last week admiring the Valentine animals that were hanging on the walls.  Olive loves elephants and so she was naturally so excited about the elephant and asked if she could make one.  All you need for this project is 2 different colors of construction paper, cut into hearts, glue and googly eyes.  Start by gluing one of the large hearts onto a piece of paper.

 Cut the other heart in half and glue one half to each side of the full heart.

 Glue the other half to the other side.

Cut a rectangle of construction paper the same color as the ears and roll one end up. 

Add a dot of glue for the nose.

 Glue the trunk in place.

 Put glue dots for the eyes.

 And add your eyes!

 So easy and SO ADORABLE! Olive was so proud and wanted to give it to Daddy. 

Melted Crayon Art

For this project you will need: paper, wax paper, crayon shavings and an iron.

 For the paper ones, cut the paper into whatever shape you would like and let your little one sprinkle the crayon shavings onto one side. 

 Fold the paper in half

 Place a piece of construction paper over the heart and iron on top of it. 

 Open up the heart and Wa-la!  Beautiful hearts!  We are going to use these hearts on Valentine cards for special people in our lives with the words "You Melt My Heart, Valentine". 

 Another variation is to use wax paper.  Have your little one sprinkle crayon shavings on the wax paper and fold the ends over so that all of the shavings are enclosed.  Then melt the same way with your iron.

 Then cut the wax paper into the shape of your choice.

 These are really pretty as sun catchers, so we put them on the back door. 

 Olive loved sticking them to the door and she kept saying they were in "families"

 Beautiful Valentines!