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Robot Valentine

Another Valentine idea!

Braeden loved making these.  He even came up with the words...  Happy Valentine's Day  
 

Valentine Fun

Quinn’s valentines were fun to make… I saw them somewhere and remembered I had to do them when he was big enough.  We took a book of Mad libz and cut out each page rolled them up and tied them off with a note that reads, “You have mad skilz!  Happy Valentines Day Quinn"

 

How fun these would be with coloring pages or word searches too?

 

Handmade Valentines

 

 

This year I am making the valentines with the kids…  I can’t say it is cuter then any store bought ones but it was fun to make together and it is homemade.   

 

 

I had each kiddo write on a blank sheet of paper “Happy Valentines Day From --------” or what ever they wanted to add.  Ella added the word “friends” on hers (so cute) and the boys drew a heart.  After they each wrote their own valentines on their own sheets of paper I scanned the image and saved it as a jpeg.  I opened elements 5 and started…  Open a blank file to be the size of my colored sheets of paper (mine were 8.5 x 11).  Opened the jpeg of their original written words.  Simply dragging and resizing the words to fit on the page as I wanted,  (over and over and over and over) I had a finished image.  Flattened the jpeg and renamed it. 

 

 

 

From here I printed this new image onto colored paper.  Used a play doe cutter to trace onto the backsides of the colored paper and cut!    Using a small hole punch cut 2 holes for the sucker to weave through….  I put the finished valentines on glass bowls around the house for Valentine decorations. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day

I saw this Valentine somewhere last year and had to try it!  Quinn is saying “I”, Ella is saying, “Love” and Braeden is saying “You”.  I guess next year I will have to make one with 4 words… Maybe I Love You More!  Happy Valentines Day

Love The Duffner Family!