Sunday, February 10, 2013

Making Valentines For Kids

 Where has the time gone!?! I can hardly believe it's almost the middle of February!

Over the weekend I helped Parker with the best homework assignment!
 The assignment was simply to address Valentine's Day cards for the other kids in his class. But why not make it a bit more fun! Instead of buying some cheap and girly looking cards we made fun robot cards for his friends and teacher.


I was pretty excited getting him to smile for a picture! I normally get a mean or crazy face. lol


Here's a close up of a boy and girl robot. Some of the boys looked like they had mustaches!

 I already had all the tools plus plenty of paper, tape, glue, and googlie eyes for us to make the cards. Poor little ol' me was out of envelopes. So what else was a girl to do. I just had to go to Hobby Lobby. They ended up being out of stock on the envelope size I needed. One option would have been 25 blank cards and envelopes for $6.99. But then I found a set of 20 fun retro circle invitations and matching envelopes at $4.99 (before the 40% off coupon). Next the only other thing I needed to buy was miniature Hershey candy bars. All together it was under $7 to make 20 Valentine's Day cards. Most importantly it was a fun project to create with Parker.


First Parker stamped Happy Valentine's Day in purple ink on all the envelopes. To make the robots I randomly cut strips of gray paper for the arms and legs. I held the crimper so Parker could load it full of the strips and turn the handle. Parker cut a bunch of squares for the robot heads. For the girl robots we used "girl googlie eyes" they are so fun because they have eyelashes. To make their lips we used a paper hole punch and I cut the dots in half. Parker decided the boys cards should only have one eye. lol  He drew the noses and mouths with a black sharpie marker. Next I had him go crazy punching red hearts. He loves making a mess punching paper. I cut strips of  green and blue paper at 1.5" x 3" to cover the Hershey's chocolate bars. Parker wanted the boy robots to be green and did not want them having hearts. He glued the hearts on the girl robots. After all the cards were assembled Parker glued the extra hearts on the envelopes for the girls in his class. Then most importantly as his homework required, he addressed the envelopes for all the kids in his class. I think his friends will love them just as much as we do!

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This was the inspiration for our cards. I saw this cute robot card and knew I'd just have to make them!

I'd like to share our Valentine's with CAS On Sunday, Crafting When We Can, Come And Get It Challenges, Challenges 4 Everybody, Addicted To CAS, Inspire Me Fridays, Cards For Men,
 and Tatertots and Jello.

17 comments:

  1. Very cute Jennifer, and its quality time with Parker! Plus it opens up his artistic side also!

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  2. Jennifer and Parker, these are fabulous and I helped make these same cards last year with my grand children. We had a lot of fun together and all the kids loved getting cards that were hand made. Thanks for playing this week at Come and Get It.
    Karal GDT

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  3. Those are just too cute! I am jealous of them! I wish I thought ahead long enough to make some for my kids' classes. lol I wait to the last minute! Oops! I'm glad that your son was able to have some fun with you while creating! Thanks for playing at ATCAS this week! :)

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  4. What a great mother/son craft time you had. Your cards are adorable, Parker! I love that you have made the robot's body out of a chocolate bar! Great work! Thanks so much for playing along at ATCAS! xx

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  5. AWW!! Now who wouldn't want to receive a special Valentine like this from a handsome young man!!!??? Such a clever idea and I agree...so much better than those "girly" store bought ones!! :) Thanks for playing along with us at CAS on Sunday! Hope you will join us again next time and good luck! Smiles and Hugs - *Vicki* ~ DT member

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  6. So funny, Jennifer! Those are the same little Valentines my kiddos have been working on! LOVE 'em to bits!

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  7. Well done Parker they are lovely you make a great team with your mum. Thank you for joining us at Challenges 4 Everybody.

    Joan x

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  8. Wow, I love these Valentine cards! You did a great job, Parker.
    Thank you for joining us at CAS on Sunday. Luv, Wilma

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  9. Fantastic idea and fab cards, just love those robots. Thanks for joining us at Come & Get It.
    Natx GDT

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  10. What a totally awesome robot - such a clever tummy idea for Valentine's Day. I can see you both had lots of fun creating together. I'm sure Parker's class mates are going to love love love these. Thanks so much for sharing with us all at ATCAS.

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  11. Hi Parker and Jennifer - those are the best Valentines I have ever seen! You guys did a fabulous job here!

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  12. Well done Parker what great team work with your mom, I love these cards so bright and pretty and a real bargain too. Parker I hope you will keep crafting and that you will share more of your gorgeous creations with us atAddicted to CAS,

    Marie

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  13. Well done Mom and Parker. I love it when crafting is shared among the young people to take it forward. Great valentine's day cards. Thanks for sharing with us at Come and Get It.

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  14. These are absolutely ADORABLE! Great job Mom and Parker! ( I agree Mom, a great pic of Parker's sweet smile!) It is so neat when our children like to follow in mom's footsteps...or at least walk along side of us~
    Thanks for joining us at Come and Get It this week with your fabulous duel creation!

    Julie

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  15. These are marvellous. Great job Parker. I am sure your class mates really liked your cards

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  16. Great work Parker, nice to see you enjoying crafting. Thanks for shraing with us at ATCAS. Caz

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  17. Cool idea for Valentine cards Jennifer. Love the idea of edible cards and I bet everyone else in the class did too.

    Thank you for sharing your wonderful work with us at Crafting When We Can Challenges. :-) xx

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