Ever since Brett's 1st year of preschool, I have made our own Valentines to pass out. Bummer ... I can't seem to find a photo or the image I used for those, but I had used his own drawing [at 3 years old] of a bumble bee & tied it in with the message: "Thanks for BEE-ing my friend". I think Valentine's Day for kids is kind of silly anyway when there's really no crush involved [at 5 & 8?], yet most of the messages are professing that ... so I always try to celebrate the "friendship" aspect of it. :)
Brett had just done the drawing of the C-130 & the little guy with the red flags. He's obsessed with drawing C-130's, but this was the first time I'd seen the guy with the flags. I told Davis to draw something - anything - & I'd turn it into a Valentine for him. I gave him some blank paper & he traced his hand. Then wrote "I LOVE CATS". Umm... that's the most random thing he's ever done. So I told him to draw something else. He said "what?" I said "anything." He said "I did draw anything" [referring to the hand tracing & "I LOVE CATS"]. So I just dropped it & we picked up the project again the next day. Royals baseball. Perfect. Took a photo, uploaded, tweaked, added text, printed, cut, punched, Davis added the reinforcement stickers, cut the ribbon, Davis threaded the ribbon ... and I tied them around the mini M&Ms.
I thought they turned out really cute ... and I know for a FACT we couldn't have found a C-130 or a Kansas City Royals Baseball Valentine anywhere. These are as custom as they come. That definitely lessens the worry that someone else is passing out the same Valentines. :) ha ha
The ones the boys made last year can be found here. :)
2 comments:
what a great idea rachel! i love that it's personalized by each of the boys!! so cute!
I LOVE them---they are MUCH better than Grandma's Valentines. Hopefully the $$$ will help ease the pain of Grandma's "art".
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