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?
February 9th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
I love this idea. I do worry about my son being around them and trying to eat one, so I’m mentally filing this idea away for next year.
We made our own for your exchange, but for my daughter’s class we used photocards with a photo from Disneyland of her and Goofy and said “I’d be Goofy not to wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day” and then she decorated it. I think come Monday I’ll be going through pun withdrawals.
April 29th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
This is a great idea! Hey, I have your card from Blog Her last year in Chicago. I changed blogs this month and am trying to ramp back up before NYC. Are you going?