Valentine's Day Craft for Toddlers

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so I thought I'd try a little art project to help Ari get into the holiday spirit. I've done a snowflake version of this craft with my students and it turned out beautiful.  Here I simplified the process slightly to make it easy enough for toddlers to do, with a little help.  We hung our hearts up in the living room window and they are beautiful!

Coffee Filter Hearts

Materials needed:

Coffee filters cut into heart shapes

Markers

Water

Paint brushes

First, colour the hearts with markers.  There are no rules on how to do this...have fun.  Ari's scribbles looked really pretty after the next step.....

Next, "paint" the hearts with water.  Get the whole thing wet.  The marker will bleed and create a watercolour effect.

Lay the hearts out to dry.  A drying rack or paper towel will do.

Hang them up to display!  We used a bit of pink washi tape to stick them on our front window.

A cute, simple craft for your toddler.  Happy Valentine's Day! 

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's weekend!

I just wanted to share this recipe for Valentine's Day Strawberries and Cream Puppy Chow from the blog Live, Love and Sugar.  I made it this week with my students for our Valentine's party, and it turned out great!  The kids really loved chowing down on their own 'baking', and it was a perfect way to practice some teamwork and recipe reading skills!

We are planning on spending our love day as a family in Winnipeg tomorrow with some dinner and checking out the ice castles at The Forks.  Take care, and enjoy your long weekend! ♡

Happy Halloween!

 

It's that day of the year again!

The trick or treaters are slowly trickling by my house and I already have an aching stomach from over indulging in my candy bowl.  I thought I'd share a picture of our pumpkins this year.  I did the owl and my hubby cut out Frankenstein.  They look pretty good all lit up!

Practically perfect in every way.

The final bucket list activity for fall - wear a costume!

I went to our halloween event as Mary Poppins - which was actually quite easy to put together and super comfortable all evening!

hat, blouse, skirt - Forever 21

flowers, red belt (a Christmas ribbon), carpet bag - thrifted

umbrella, shoes - my own

Halloween.

Halloween has come and gone once again.  It always feels like it sneaks up on us!

We managed to squeeze some pumpkin carving in on Tuesday evening.  I think they turned out pretty well - my husband's pumpkin is quite the mountain biking masterpiece!

And Kingston donned his favourite tie for the occasion while I handed out candy to trick or treaters...

I have been looking back at my fall bucket list now that it is November...

the only things I have left to do are to picnic on a sunny day - I think that one will have to wait for the summer - and to wear a costume....which will happen this weekend at a Halloween party!

Now it's time to start thinking about my winter/holiday bucket list!