Saturday, March 7, 2009

Valentine's Fun

What is Valentine's Day without making Valentine's boxes? Grandma found some fun decorations for the girls to add to their boxes. They had a lot of fun being creative and making a huge mess in the process. It seems to me that chaos and creativity go hand in hand. But out of the chaos, something beautiful always emerges. As you can see, Emelia's pretty excited about her masterpiece (and the thought of the fun Valentine's and candies that will be dropped into it!). Can you see who is hiding inside of Hannah's box? Yep, it's Bear!

Mommy found a fun Valentine project for Emelia to make for her classmates. An MP3 player, or it it an ipod? I am not up on these technological things. All I know is that she has been begging for one of these for months. We keep saying, no, not until you are much older! She was thrilled to be able to make a candy version, using a box of candy hearts and peanut butter cups covered in tin foil.
I found the project idea in a Family Fun magazine. You can check out their website for the directions.

2 comments:

Cristina said...

Looks like lots of fun! I love the ipod valentine! I'm excited for Clara to get big enough to do projects with me. :)

Brenda and Dan said...

Leave it to Emelia to have "crafty" valentines.

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The West Ranch currently consists of Ted, head Rancher, Angela, Ted's right hand woman, and two busy little wranglers, Emelia and Hannah.