Pink & Red

Those are the Valentine colors right?

Well we've been having fun with them around here. I thought I would post things we've been doing to get ready for the big day!

Yesterday Cyrena made her Valentine cards. She stamped some hearts and put some stickers on them. These are going on top of bags of treats for all her friends! We'll be having a preschool party on Thursday.

She wrote each person's name on the cards and was so proud of herself when she was done!

See that little blonde head just itching to help her sister? She's trouble

Then we made a Valentine Suncatcher. We made these for preschool today. Sometimes I like to have Cyrena try out the crafts the day before just to make sure they'll go smoothly.

This was fun. Here's what you do:

*Cut out a heart outline
--I taught Cyrena how to cut hearts out of paper and she thought it was fun!

*Lay the heart outline on one large square of contact paper.

*Fill in the outline with anything that is semi-transparent. Just stick everything on there! We did tissue paper, small sequins and glitter of course!

*Lay another square of contact paper on top of the outline

*Trim into the heart shape and hang in the sunshine!

And don't forget to try to catch all the dust particles you'll see coming in through the window!

For Family Home Evening we had a lesson about love and talked about how important each member of our family is. We looked at a family photo and I covered up one of us and we talked about what it would be like if that person wasn't in our family. It really made Cyrena think and she said some interesting things.

We brought it into V-Day by saying that we want everyone in our family to know how much they are loved. So we made V-Day mailboxes for everyone in the family. We decorated them with our names, stickers and drew some pictures. Natalie just wanted to put stickers on her shirt. Fun stuff.


Our finished work. Natalie has a sparkly red heart sticker on her neck and Cyrena's holding a twix bar, her FHE treat. Ahh, I'm going to love looking at these in a few years. :)

I have pre-printed notes that I am keeping by the mailboxes so we can write notes anytime we want, or even put a treat in the mailboxes (cyrena was all over that and started getting things out of the cupboard right away).

Here she is copying the big smile she made on her mailbox.

So there's just a little glance at our Valentine fun! There's so much more I want to do but I'm not feeling too motivated at the moment. :)

p.s. Last night I wrote a note for Cyrena and she opened it this morning. I wrote: U R A Q T. Oh my goodness she made me laugh trying to read it. We've been working so much on letter sounds and beginning reading that she was trying to sound out what it said. It was hilarious. "uuhh, rrr, aaaa, qwa" I finally told her to just say the letter names and when she did she thought it was SOOOO silly!!