In February we had the first Craft Class of the year! Some great friends came and we had crafts and snacks, fun and loot bags too :)
The ice in the "punch drunk love" punch is red & pink hearts. The love potion #9 is pink cream soda and it's written on the back of the plastic label. There are chocolate and marble cupcakes, and the marble ones are chocolate cake and white cake that has been made pink!
First we all got some loving face paint on! ribbons and hearts and sparkles! While that was going on the kids did some colouring of the valentine themes printouts I made up! I thought that would be fun, but I had no idea it would keep them so occupied! Maybe there should be a colouring party! : )
Then on with the crafts!
Also prepared ahead of time were some salt dough shapes. This is a fun craft for the kids to make the dough and use the cookie cutters, but it takes 2 hours to bake, so having them ready to paint was so much easier! Once again, this was a big hit! Some kids painter 3 or 4 shapes to give to their family and friends! we used lots of colours, glued some together, and even attached broach backs or ribbon to them! We could have done this for hours too!
Next we got some foam hearts and cut an opening to make them into picture frames. We attached a rectangle of foam to the back to hold the picture in and then decorated the heart with other foam mini hearts, shapes, paint, and conversation-sweethearts. We added pretty ribbons to most of these as well, to be hung on walls.
The next craft involved some steps. First we had purple and white plasticine which we kneaded and then pressed into small plastic cups. Into that we stuck a green pipecleaner. On the pipecleaner were 2 green hearts, impaled through the point to look like leaves. At the top of the "stem" was glued a fuzzy heart with a pink tiny clothes pin on the back to turn the whole thing into a photo holder! (I used mine to hold my business card)
One last craft for those who stayed extra late... Similar to the heart leaves, 4 red hearts made of construction paper. A lolli-pop is stuck through a small hole in the point of each heart and they are fanned out to form a yummy flower.
At the end, everyone got a loot bag full of treats, a valentine pencil and big heart eraser and then everyone picked out a pin broach that I had made.
