School Valentines - 2016

You all know that we sent these to Connor's friends in the mail.

 

I bought these off of Zulily at the beginning of the year for Connor to "hand out" at school and even though I think they are cute printed with Connor's name, I was a little underwhelmed when they arrived.  

 

When I saw Andrea's post about her Valentine printables I knew wanted to use them somehow. Thank goodness I have nephews that I get to spoil. One day in January on one L-O-N-G drive to my house in traffic I pulled up her post for them to look at and choose their favorite.

 

Leslie told me she took them to the store to buy Valentine's and after they got there they were all 'Nooooo. Auntie is doing this for us!' lol Those are MY BOYS!!

 

The week of Valentine's I went to Target during lunch and scored these items. :)

Reeses heart for Cecil

Fun Dip for me

Swedish Fish for Leslie

 

The night before I had Leslie have the boys pick out the ones they liked best.

I had them printed as photos from Walgreens as Andrea suggested. Leslie picked up the pictures and then I met them at her house after work one day (before I picked Connor up).

 

Zay's teacher asked that they just put their name on the Valentines so that it would be easier to hand out. Nevertheless, he wanted to (and was VERY focused on) come up with a list of his classmates. After we finished that, he and I worked together to put his together. He wrote on the cards while I filled the bags will Starburst and stapled them to the cards.

 

Zay said he wanted to do Minecraft for the boys and Legos for the girls. So we just did half and half. I purchased the only clear bags target had. Next time I would try to get the smaller bags that Andrea used from Hobby Lobby.

 

I just love Zay's careful handwriting.

 

 

 

Noah's teacher had supplied a list of his classmates names so he took his time writing each student's name and stapling the Star Wars or Animal Cracker bags to the cards. I had to leave before Noah was done but he worked on his own and then finished the rest up after basketball practice.

 

Leslie *might* hate me for this picture. oops

You can see in the bottom of this picture that Noah did request to make one special valentine for one special "friend" in class. See the all pink starburst in the bottom of the picture?

 

Noah's handwriting was not as great. ;)

 

Noah  added this one to his *special* pink starburst bag

 

 

 

We put this one on a bag of Swedish fish for the boys to give their Mama on Valentine's Day. I didn't realize she was giving up candy for Lent. Ooops.

 

I loved this little "craft" with my two favorite big boys and really appreciate Andrea sharing her creative talents with us! :)