If you are hoping to join the homeschool valentine exchange again this year, please head over to my new blog, Hearth to Heart, for the 2011 Homeschool Valentine Exchange!
Since getting an email update about this blog will probably come as some surprise to you, you probably have figured out that the blog is deceased.
It is now speaking to you from BEYOND THE GRAVE! *scary music & lightning*
Although it is very bare at the moment, I have started a new blog Hearth to Heart. This blog, The HomeSchooled Year, was started to chronicle what was to be a 1 year “experiment.”
We had only planned on homeschooling our son for one year. Hence, The HomeSchooled YEAR. But here we are, 3 years later, still homeschooling & now homeschooling both children. And still, deeply loving it.
I’d love for you to join me over there at my new blog! Thank you for supporting me for the last 3 years! 
The 6th annual Smithsonian Museum day is Saturday, September 25th. Submit your information & you’ll be emailed a voucher that is good for free admission for two people to one of over a 1000 museums! It’s so easy!
Search for local museums that are participating in Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum day & pick where you want to go.
You can follow MuseumDay on Twitter, too.
If you go to Wal-Mart, you might notice that you can’t really buy JUST a box of valentines this year. They seem to all come with pencils, candy, stickers or tattoos. Which is great, but what if your kids make homemade valentines? What can they add, to give their friends a little extra?
Materials:
- Colored paper
- Crayons, markers, pens, ect.
- Glue, preferably hot glue, or double-sided glue dots
- Grow shapes, animals, dinosaurs, etc. They can be the ones in the pellets, like we used, or the ones shaped like creatures, like these bugs that grow in water.
- Some “good” puns!
We glued the grow pellet down onto the paper. We spent some time wondering how to best secure it, with the fact that the gel-capsule has to desolve in water, for the creature to grow. We used Elmer’s water-soluable glue.
I had Tommy write his name on them, and I wrote the message, because 40 valentines is a LOT.
Some other pun ideas? Some cheesier than others…
I hope we GROW closer.
I’ve really GROWN to know you!
Valentine puns are real GROWNers!
I hope we never GROW apart, Valentine!
We got sets of 10 pellets in the Target dollar section. They might make me nervous with super young kids, because I have an issue teaching wee little kids to play with things that look like pills…BUT K-1st grade and up should be fine!
What other growth related puns could we use?
Do your boys think valentines are too girly? Set them to work creating their own monster lab of Valentines.
Materials:
- Construction Paper
- Pen, markers, etc
- Heart stickers
- Googly eyes in assorted sizes
- double-sided glue dots
- Your best puns!
They’re so cute, because boys come up with the most awesome monsters! And they’re each different, and adorable….I mean FEROCIOUS. Totally valentines boys won’t be embarrassed to give to their friends.
