I credit my years as a first grade teacher for my love of holidays. Every holiday is thoroughly celebrated in the younger elementary years. We spent weeks putting together themed crafts, sing-alongs and writing projects. I've carried on my love of celebrating holidays as a mom. When the kids were younger, I helped them make personalized valentines and now I make a special trip to the bakery for my teenagers that aren't handing out valentines anymore. It's those special touches that make … [Read more...]
Tutorial: Shaving Cream Valentine
It's almost February and that's got me thinking about, what else, Valentine's Day. I love that C is finally old enough to get into holidays so I wanted to make something special for him to give to his pals. Since chocolate candy isn't really appropriate for a bunch of 2 year olds (at least not in my world), I came up with this instead. Process based art and play has been big around our house lately (as evidenced by Monday's post) so these shaving cream Valentines were kind of a … [Read more...]