Valentine's Party!

Today was our Valentine's Day Party in pre-k!

The craft I love the most of any we do is hand prints.

Can you imagine having a bunch of these and making a t-shirt quilt for your kiddo with his hand prints all over it??

To make these shirts, we fold each shirt with a piece of paper in between the front and back of the shirt so that the paint doesn't leak through to the backside of the shirt.  That also gives us a place to write the kiddos names.  Place a small heart on the shirt, where the middle of the palm is going to sit, and paint their cute, chubby little hand red.  (We use acrylic paint so that it will be permanent.)

Center their hand over the heart and push...make sure that you press hard enough to get complete coverage.

Lift the hand directly up...and VOILA!  Cute hand print!

Leave the heart on the shirt until the paint is dry so it doesn't leak under the edges.

And when you remove the heart...you have this!  Precious!

We printed off the "Blowing you Kisses" topper HERE...

And we bought the little bottles of bubble at the dollar store in packs of 6 (they were the wedding bubbles.)

We made good use of our construction paper and cut out a bunch of red and pink hearts...

...and the kids glued them onto white lunch sacks to make a simple Valentine's Box.

At the end of the day...parents came and we played a game of Valentine Bingo.  We got the free download from Jamie over at 

The Crafting Chicks.

Finally (whew!) each kiddo decorated their own heart shaped cookie (from Costco) with pink frosting (spread with craft sticks) and topped with conversation hearts.

Now I'm ready to go fall into a sugar coma!  

Happy Valentine's Day, y'all!

XOXOX, Andrea

P is for PIG

Love the visual cuteness of this P is for PIG craft!

Grab your stack of pink paper (HA!!  Pink Paper starts with P, also!!)

  Fold them in half, draw a large P on the paper.

Staple around the edges of the P, so the paper doesn't shift while you cut...

Be sure and staple in the middle of the P...use a knife or the edge of the scissors to poke a whole in the center, then cut the center out.

Do the same thing with the pink paper in a modified triangle, for the outer ear and in circles for the snout.  Cut some small white triangles for the center of the ear.

Other supplies you'll need are googly eyes (medium large ones), and some yarn or pink pipe cleaners for the tail.

We like to have them glue them on a worksheet, but you can do it on a plain piece of paper.  Use a black marker to color the nostrils on the snout... 

...and curl the tail.  Cutest little piggy I've seen in a while!!