Happy (?) Valentines Day Crafting

Our school has a ban on store-bought Valentines. The idea is to get the kids to make hand-made gifts that are “from the heart” (Kyle’s quote… seriously). I love this idea, in concept, but man-oh-man am I ever put to the test at V-Day each year. They have a Valentine’s Day “Secret Pal” tradition at the school, where each kid brings hand-made gifts to their secret pal for the 3 days leading up to V-Day. Then, on V-Day they gift them with a “big special gift” (Owen’s quote) which is — according to K & O — preferably, homemade sweet treats of some kind. Meera’s pre-school class is still too young to be included in the Secret Pal routine… so she wanted to make valentines for all of her classmates. Good thing I like crafting.

It has been a long week (we started in on our crafting in earnest this past weekend, and wrapped up tonight with our grand finale: homemade [cheater] cake pops***). I almost lost my mind once or twice. But we survived and came out on the other end with some “awesome!!!” (K & O & M’s quote) hand-made V-Day gifts.

All I can say is: THANK GOD FOR PINTEREST!!!

And: If we can do this, you can too (nobody hates crafting more than K & O). Not that you’d probably choose to… I’m just saying, if you have to — or dare to — you can do it for sure if we can.

Happy Valentines Day Y’All!

***FYI: the cheater cake pops were super easy to do. Buy lollipop sticks, some good store-bought doughnut holes, some microwavable chocolate/vanilla coating (the stuff you’d use for chocolate-dipped-strawberries, etc.), and some sprinkles… and you’re good to go! The boys are sooooo excited to give these to their secret pals!