Works For Me Wednesday

Yesterday we made very simple, Valentine holders. With February right around the corner I thought this would be a good time to post this. We start celebrating Valentine's, the 1st of February. Each day up until the 14th we write what we love about someone in the family and then place it in their holder. Then on Valentines Day we all read them aloud after dinner.

So here's what you need:
Colored plates ( I chose red and pink and they were only a $1.00 at Wal-Mart)
Yarn
Hole puncher
Foam stickers: Letters and Shapes (and glue sticks if the sticky has come off your foamy things)

The first thing you're going to do is cut a few paper plates in half. Take that half and turn it upside down and line it up with the bottom of your whole plate of choice. We did pink for the girls and red for the boys. Now here is were my muscle man came in. He did the hole punching as it was kind of hard to go through both plates at the same time.Next you're going to thread your yarn (enough to be able to tie in the back) through the holes. Tie in the back so as to have something to hang it with. Now get your foam stickers and go to it. I chose just to use foam stickers as it was easier for the littler ones but you can add lace or ribbon or whatever you want. But this is a nice, simple, easy craft for the kids. Have everyone make their own. My 3 year old just needed a little supervision with the glue stick. But if you had foam stickers that actually stuck then you wouldn't have that problem. Did I mention these foam stickers are like over a 1000 years old? I think maybe they came over on the ark, hence why the stickiness is gone.
Aaaanyways, here is the whole gang working hard on their holders.

Here is the finished project. I'm going to use those little plastic holders that you can remove easily, to hang these up. Just simply slip your valentine into the holder and read on Valentine's Day. Cute huh?
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Have a great day!
HUGS!