- Don’t listen to what they say about Valentines, we know it’s ALL ABOUT THE CANDY anyway!
The Princess recently announced that we should hand make all twenty three of her Valentines this year. Aw, doesn’t that sound nice?
What do you mean “WE”, little girl?
Seriously, I was really on board. Making your own Valentines saves money, right? Therefore it’s totally worth it. Yes, we were going to totally rock the homemade Valentine world this year!
After perusing online for awhile and finding out that my child pretty much wants everything on the internet, she settled upon making 23 of the paper owls in the picture below for her classmates. Because they were “soooooo cuuuuuuuute”! (her words)
http://KidsActivitiesBlog has great step by step instructions on how to make these cute little owls. So simple and cute, right????
Before we proceed, keep in mind that this little girl always has her very own ideas of how she wants things…
After said conversation I visited the dollar spot at Target and purchased a $1 package of scrapbook paper and some glue sticks. Her plan also included not putting holes in the bottom for straws or suckers. We planned to make feet for our little owls. Because we can’t give candy, we must give FRUIT SNACKS! FRUIT SNACKS that are shaped like hearts!
(We totally CAN give candy, she just doesn’t want to).
The instructions said to make circles on the paper, and the blogger had simply used a cup to trace the circles. So I grabbed the first cup I saw, which was The Princess’s heart cup, and hurriedly made circles, and then cut them out. Doing this used up about half of the scrapbook paper.
This was when I realized that these were going to be teeny tiny little owls. Normal people would trace around an adult cup. ADD people trace around the first cup they find that isn’t dirty. The cup I grabbed happened to be her favorite. And small, very small.
She also set her heart on using google eyes instead of making the eyes out of paper. I guess maybe I should have bought some more eyes! It became apparently quite quickly that the eyes we had were either gigantic or teeny. Nothing in between that wasn’t completely goofy. The Princess was very disappointed in this. Instead I showed her how to make the eyes out of paper circles like in the picture. She was not very impressed.
And why write your own cute little sayings when you managed to pick up a bunch of conversation heart stickers last year in the Valentine Clearance? So now instead of an owl with a note that says “I think you’re a HOOT!” or -insert owl reference here-, we have an owl with a heart emblazoned with the word “Kisses” on its tummy, holding on to a bag of heart shaped fruit snacks for dear life.
So after an extended period of cutting and folding, and making eyes, the Princess decided she was done. Or rather, I was done. How many had we made? One. I had made just one little owl for her as an example. She snatched it and fled to her room to make it a place to sleep. She is going to keep it and name it “Kisses”.
Here is our poor “Kisses” the owl, rescued from the Princess’s bedroom while she slept. I’m not sure how Kisses got so darn dirty.
So, will the Princess actually start making her owls for her friends? Will we have future episodes where The Princess decides to keep going forward with Operation Valentine’s Owls? Or perhaps a post about me running frantically to the store to grab one of the two boxes of Valentines that are left on the 11th hour of Vday?
It would have been so much simpler if I had just showed her all of the character Valentines there were while we were at Target. But no, I had to encourage her creativity! What is WRONG with me?
The Professor, on the other hand, was perfectly happy with whatever. I brought him home a box of Skylanders Valentines and he was set.
So, several days after the fact, just how IS our little owl project going?
Guess what? She told me to go to Wal-Mart and pick her up a box of My Little Pony Equestria Girl Valentines… Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Some of our perusing for ideas resulted in seeing some ridiculously cute stuff. Just hook me up with this site, I’ll order all of my Valentines’ gifts and be on my merry little way…
http://www.personalcreations.com/
Aren’t these just the cutest things ever? And I’m the mean mom who gave my kids weird names. What’s wrong with that? You can’t just walk into a store and find personalized stuff for them. Damn me. http://www.personalcreations.com/valentines-gifts-kids-PVALKID
I thought it wise to mention that I did not receive any sort of compensation for plugging Personal Creations and Kids Activities Blog, other than a nice virtual high five. That and the reaffirmation that my daughter wants everything cute that was ever made.
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