valentine rice krispie heart pops

So I have seen the Rice Krispie Heart Pops done before but I've always seen people prepare the Rice Krispies in a pan and then use a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out their hearts.  For some reason that seemed difficult to me and kind of a waste of the rice krispies between the hearts.  I decided to try making the hearts in a heart shaped silicone ice cube tray.  It worked out pretty well!

I'm going to keep my instruction short and sweet.  I first started by taking a pastry brush and lightly brushed margarine in my silicone heart ice cube tray.  I prepared a half batch of Rice Krispie treats according to the box directions.  While still warm I pushed the Rice Krispie treat mixture into the ice cube tray. Being as small as they are they really take no time at all to set up. I was able to fill 3 heart shaped ice cube trays making 42 hearts.  By the time I was done filling the trays I was able to go back to the first heart I filled and started pushing in the sticks.  Next I prepared my white chocolate for dipping according to the box directions.  I dipped each heart in white chocolate and sprinkled with festive sprinkles while still wet.  Pretty cute huh?

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valentine bowling game

This is a super duper easy game that you can whip up in no time.  Room mothers I know are always searching for simple classroom games and this one certainly fits the bill.  This bowling game is made up of empty toilet paper rolls.  Simply print out the sheets, cut out, and tape on.  I whipped this up today and it kept all of my little ones entertained.  I had read a suggestion online somewhere that you can stuff socks into the toilet paper rolls to make them a bit sturdier and harder to knock down.  Easy Peasy!

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cherry playdough valentine plus free printable

My preschooler and I had talked about what to make for the preschool Valentine's day party for her friends.  I gave her several choices and she really wanted to make her classmates homemade playdough. I found these perfectly sized containers at our local dollar store.  We decided to make the kids red playdough for Valentine's day.  I figured why not make it more fun and make cherry playdough?

The playdough turned out awesome and smelled sooo good!  In fact it smelled too good...my little one told me she was having a hard time not eating it and told me next time to just make plain playdough :).

We used the following recipe (adadpted from How Does She):

1 cup flour

1 cup water

1/4 cup salt

2 tsp. cream of tartar

1 Tbls. vegetable oil

1 package cherry kool-aid

Mix dry ingredients in pot first and stir well.  Add wet ingredients and stir.  Cook over medium heat stirring continuously until it forms a large ball.  Remove from heat and dump out onto wax paper on your counter.  When cool knead the playdough until nice and smooth and soft.

I wanted to come up with some cute little tag to put on the little container.  Unbelievable to me that the container was the PERFECT size to fit the scalloped punch that we had at home. I went to work in Photoshop and made up a sweet little cherry printable.

All wrapped up and ready to go...pretty cute huh?

Someone's pretty excited to hand them out to friends.

 

And here's my gift to you.  Please enjoy these Valentine printables. 

You're sweet Tags

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You're a sweet friend tags

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If you choose to download them I'd love it if you'd leave me a comment!  Also if you use them I'd love to see a picture...leave me a link in the comments! :)  Enjoy!

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simple book heart valentine garland

I love surprising my chickadees.  Today they are going to be surprised with this book heart garland I whipped up while they were at school.

This is a super simple craft! I don't have a lot of time to craft so what I do has to be simple and fast.  I basically freehand drew some hearts and traced them onto old book pages.  Old baby name books are great for this type of project!

I cut them out and taped them to bakers twine.  Added some buttons with hot glue and we're done!  A little time crafting and it will mean a lot to my little ones!

 

How do you like to surprise your little ones?

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free valentine's day lunch box jokes

I love surprising my kids with lunch box notes and jokes.  Admittedly I don't always have time to do that though or I just plain forget.  I love little printable things that I can print and cut out and keep a stash by the lunch packing area so I can just grab one and throw it in.  I thought you all might enjoy something super easy to do the same. Here's some Valentine's Day lunch box jokes for your little ones to enjoy! Download HERE.

*inspired by printable lunch box jokes found on Kristin Duke Photograhy's website here...visit for more fun lunch printables!

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