Homemade Valentine's 2015

February 10, 2015

Girls wanted to make homemade valentines this year so we came up with two great ones - Felt Fortune Cookies for Zoe's friends and Clothespin Love Bugs for Lila.

Felt Fortune Cookies

Materials needed

Felt sheets
Hot glue gun
Paper for fortune

Find something circular about 4 to 4 1/2 inches in diameter
Trace your circle onto some felt (we used felt sheets)
Cut the circles out
Add in your fortune - have the fortune longer so it sticks out on the sides
Using a hot glue gun, glue center of the tops together. Leave about an inch of each edge open
Then bend it in half - the two edges touching and voila, felt fortune cookie

Once all the fortune cookies were made, we put the felt cookie and some chocolate kisses into mini take out boxes.

Caterpillar Love Bug

Materials needed

pom poms
googly eyes
pipe cleaners
wooden clothes pin
hot glue

Glue a strip of glue on the back of clothes pin, leaving about 1/2 inch free on the end
Place 4 pom poms onto the strip of glue
Place some glue on the back of the googly eyes and stick them onto the first pom pom
Cut 1/2 strips of pipe cleaner, bend in half and glue them on top of the first pom pom
Write your valentines note onto a notecard
Clip the caterpillar onto the card and you're done