What Do You Get With Glitter, Glue, Stamps and a Good Cuppa Coffee...?

    Well the kids woke up insanely early this morning. Bleary eyed, with coffee in hand (me of course) we had quite a morning. We pulled out some of our crafting stash --glue, ink, stamps and glitter. We covered our kitchen table with our art table cloth. We have had it 5 years…it is covered in glue, paste, glitter and paint and it is still going strong(best 5 bucks I ever spent)! Then, I got out all of the stuff I had purchased for the kids to make valentines for their classmates and …away they stamped; while we drank our much needed coffee.

    The kids used this cool heart stamp that has four different heart shapes on it and they let loose on blank sheets of heavy paper. It was great because Annie (my 2 year old) had plenty of surface to get messy and creative with her stamping---some ink on the stamp…lots on her. Then the kids used glitter glue with hearts in it to paint over their pretty stamps. In the end, when they dry they can cut them out and tie them with ribbon to their friends little valentine presents.

    We also got our Valentine decorations out and the kids put them up all around the house. Die cut cupids and hearts are taped to the windows. A shimmery, red foil wreath is hung on our gate and heart shaped cookie plates are all strewn around the house. Needless to say, we are getting ready for valentines day around here….at 7am on Saturday morning….in the middle of January….