Last year ER and I made
Mommy and Me Valentines, at that time she wanted to paint every day all day and I wanted a project that would incorporate some of her art. She painted the paper we used and I backstiched the sentiment on the front of the cards.
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This year ER is into gluing and as always I have a big selection of paper scraps leftover from scrapbooking. She enjoyed making the
heart for Great Grandma, that I decided to make a variation of that project for our cards.
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Ours are "Cinderella" blue, because that's what ER is all about right now, and are cute little mini sized cards. To make them, cut a 12X12 piece of cardstock into three 4X12 pieces and then score every 4 inches. ER glued paper scraps to the bottom portion.
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After it dried I trimmed the edges, traced a heart in the middle portion of the paper strip, and cut it out with a craft knife. Attach adhesive around the opening and then fold the bottom portion up and press to seal and to make the "window".
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Add a message to your Valentine and sign. These are on the smaller size because I didn't want ER to get tired of making them before we had enough for her entire preschool class. I am going to have her trace her name on it and put it into a little treat bag with some candy for each classmate.
A little tip: All the glue caused the paper to warp a bit, and I had to put it under some heavy books to flatten it out a bit. Plan for this to be a two day project if your child is heavy handed with the glue bottle like mine is.
3 Friends Said:
or glue sticks, that could work too I bet.
This would be super popular here. I need to get us started on Valentine's Day stuff, how does it creep up so fast?
Beautiful =)
cute-my 4 yr old would love this
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