Welcome to day 12 of Toys In The Dryer 14 Days of Valentines! From February 1-14 we'll be doing non-stop Valentines posts to celebrate this lovely holiday! Some of you may remember our previous post on making your own crayons. Well now we'll take it a step further. Valentines gifts! It's a really easy project and your kids will be a hit this Valentines Day with these special Valentines. Here is what you will need: Crayons (oodles and oodles) heart shaped mold oven Valentine's cardstock plastic bags Step 1: gather up all the crayons you want to use and peel (the not so fun part) Step 2: chop with a chef knife (or break with your hands) each crayon into 4-5 pieces Step 3: pre-heat your oven to 350degrees F and fill each heart shaped mold half way with the crayons Step 4: bake crayons for 10 minutes and CAREFULLY remove them after the 10 minutes (if you set them aside and do not disturb them until they are hardened the colors will not mix together and make one solid … [Read more...]
14 days of Valentine’s Fun Stuff Fridays (#10)
Remember when Linkys were all the rage in blogging? They were a great way to find and get to know other bloggers before social media and Pinterest became mainstream. It didn't hurt that they brought a ton of traffic to your site too. Lindsi and I started our Fun Stuff Fridays linky back in 2011. We kept it going for 20 weeks before it fizzled out (or we got sick of doing it, I'm not sure which happened). It is now soon to be 2017 and at lot of the links in those linkies no longer exist. Plus, I've let my link up subscription lapse so you can't get to them anyway. Instead of deleting the Fun Stuff Fridays posts, however, I have decided to clean them up and make sure our featured links are still valid. After all, on a rare occasion I get traffic from one of these old posts. The linky may be gone but the featured posts are still valid as of December 2016... Welcome to day10 of Toys In The Dryer 14 Days of Valentines! Welcome to Fun Stuff Fridays, Valentine's edition. Holy … [Read more...]
Valentine’s Lunch Themes
Welcome to day 9 of Toys In The Dryer 14 Days of Valentines! From February 1-14 we'll be doing non-stop Valentines posts to celebrate this lovely holiday! Some of you may remember our previous post about Creative Lunchbox Ideas. Well we took things a little bit further and hoped to inspire you to create a fun Valentine's Day lunch for the sweetie in your life. Heart of the matter Heart shaped sandwiches are easy to create with a pair of scissors and a few seconds of your time. Cheese with a X and O in it will send your sweetie to school with hugs and kisses too! Pack some pink yogurt and strawberries for color. Homemade lunchable A few crackers, a circle cookie cutter and a few minutes of your time and you can make a great "lunchable" style meal for your cutie! I added some toothpicks with Valentine's stickers on them for a little flare. I love you Send them off to school with hugs and kisses and an I love you! X and O shaped sandwiches, I love you in fruit leather … [Read more...]
Cupid’s Treasure Hunt
Welcome to day 8 of Toys In The Dryer 14 Days Of Valentines! From February 1-14 we'll be doing non-stop Valentines posts to celebrate this lovely holiday! Earlier this fall I did a post about making your own treasure hunt. For Valentine's I'm taking it one step further with Cupid's Treasure Hunt! Please note that the beginning of this project requires time when your kids are not around so you can surprise them. 1) You'll need to start by printing off a Valentine's coloring sheet. I found the cute one above at Mom'sWhoThink. 2) Color the sheet and then cut it into puzzle pieces. 3) Next make a map of your house. You can get as detailed or as not detailed as you want. I made mine heart-shaped on pink paper for Valentines. I also crumpled it, burned the edges, and made some holes just to make it look a little older and like a real treasure map. 4) Put Xs on the map where your children will find puzzle pieces. Make sure you have as many Xs as you have puzzle … [Read more...]
Valentine’s Boxes
Welcome to day 7 of Toys In The Dryer's 14 days of Valentines From Feb 1-14 we're doing non-stop Valentine's posts to celebrate this lovely holiday! One thing that I remember from my childhood that was special was the Valentine's boxes my mom would make for me. At our school we always had a contest to see who could be the most creative and crafty in making their "mailboxes" for Valentines.....and I will admit, I always won! (Thanks mom!) A lot of schools are sending home the request to make Valentine's boxes (because of budget cuts they no longer are making them in schools) so I thought it would be fun to share some inspiration with you! (I only wish I had photos of the amazing boxes my mom made for me.) First thing you will want to do is get creative in your structure! You could use a basket and weave ribbons, you could make a box out of an old shoe box, use an actual mail box, or you can even use paper plates. I hope some of these photos will inspire you to get … [Read more...]
Tutorial for making "50 reasons we love you" deck of cards
Welcome to day 6 of Toys In The Dryer 14 Days of Valentines! From February 1-14 we'll be doing non-stop Valentines posts to celebrate this lovely holiday! I had seen a version of "50 reasons we love you" floating around the internet and I thought it would be SUCH an amazing gift to give....of course with my own special tweaks to it. I really hope you like this project and will give it a try too. What you need: a deck of cards paper hole punch paper (either sticker paper or regular and mod podge) zip ties Step 1: gather your cards and use a paper clip to hold them all aligned, punch two holes into each card Step 2: loop a zip tie through all of the cards and secure Step 3: (this part takes the longest) keeping in mind that the average deck of cards measures 2 1/2" X 4 1/2" create 50 reasons you love the person you are giving it to, leaving the first card for the title "50 reasons I love you" and the second card to say "by (insert name) and a date. I used a … [Read more...]
