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TradCathMom
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Posted: Jan 24 2007 at 6:35pm \| IP Logged

I hope I have this in the correct place. The older children need to make some Valentine's for a project, they have to be small (no glitter or too thick and not heavy). Anyone have any simple ideas that look nice? I think I lost some creative juices recently!

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Posted: Jan 26 2007 at 9:05pm \| IP Logged

Let's see - I love anything with rubber stamps. You can do some incredible things very simply with rubber stamps.

I have always thought these doily ones from Martha Stewart were lovely and pretty simple.

Family Fun has a large selection of valentine ideas. I liked the stained-glass valentine.

I also think paper woven hearts make lovely valentines though they aren't really a card. You can modify the size to make them larger or smaller. You could tuck a small picture of St. Valentine inside. This site has some amazing variations in their patterns section.

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Posted: Jan 27 2007 at 1:16am \| IP Logged

The doily ones are so pretty!

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Posted: Feb 01 2007 at 12:05pm \| IP Logged

Thank you so much for the ideas! It's just what we needed! I think we'll do the woven this time. We need to have 30+ done by Saturday.. Yikes!

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Posted: Feb 01 2007 at 1:12pm \| IP Logged

One I've done with my small children:

Kids rip colored paper (red, pinks, white) into strips and pieces. Put into bowl.

Give each child a large piece of colored paper and some glue. Glue pieces randomly all over the paper.

When glue has dried, cut paper into hearts (when I did this with 2 and 3 year olds I did the heart cutting, now my 7, 8, and 9 year olds could do this part).

All done! We wrote on the backs of them, but you would'nt have to. These turn out SOOO pretty.

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