Bee-themed Teacher Valentine’s Gift

February 14, 2013 By
Teacher Valentine's Gift

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Big Brother’s Kinder­garten class is “the bees”. So, we’ve gone with total bee-themed Valentine’s this year. First, we made bee valen­tines. Then, we made a bee Valentine’s mail­box. So, we decided his teacher def­i­nitely needed a bee-themed gift too! Teacher Valentine's GiftHow more per­fect could a bot­tle of honey be for a bee-themed Valentine’s gift?! The inspi­ra­tion came from this “bee mine” valen­tine on Make It Do. I loved the honey idea, but wanted a dif­fer­ent word­ing for the card. And, I wanted the card to match with his bee class valen­tines. Honey bee valentine

The gift is SO easy to put together. Just a bot­tle of honey (I went with a bear just for the sake of cute­ness), the print­able teacher Valentine’s card, and some rib­bon! Once I printed out the card, Big Brother wrote his mes­sage on the bag. Then, I punched a hole in the card and tied it around the honey. Super easy, but super cute! Now, here’s hop­ing that “Mrs. B” (yes, that is what the kids call her) likes honey! ;) Big Brother was so excited to bring it to her. I can’t wait for him to get home from school today to hear all about his Valentine’s Day festivities!

If you’d like to use these card, just down­load the file from the link below. For best results, print on card stock or matte photo paper with your printer set to high­est quality.

Click to down­load the print­able—-> Bee Teacher Gift Printable

Honey Bee Valentine's Gift

Do you give teach­ers any­thing for Valentine’s Day?

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Super Easy Sparkly Pink Heart Rice Krispies Treats!

February 13, 2013 By

Look­ing for a super quick & easy Valentine’s treat? Mak­ing some sparkly pink heart rice krispie treats!

The boys usu­ally enjoy mak­ing fes­tive good­ies. And, one day Big Brother said, “let’s make hearts Mom”. He meant heart treats and I couldn’t decide what to do. I didn’t feel like cookie bak­ing. And, then I remem­bered we had a big box of Rice Krispies. So we made heart-shaped rice krispies treats. Super easy! We just fol­lowed the direc­tions for mak­ing clas­sic Rice Krispies treats. As we were stir­ring in the cereal to the melted marsh­mal­low, we sim­ple added pink dec­o­ra­tor sugar crys­tals to make them pink! Some dis­solved, cast­ing a slight pink hue! Then, sprin­kle a few crys­tals over the top and cut out with a cookie cut­ter. Super easy!
So, if you still need a fun treat for Valentine’s Day tomor­row, this are sure to be a hit! :)
Have you made any Valentine’s sweet treats?
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Hershey’s Kisses Sweetest Memory — Giveaway! #HersheysKisses

February 12, 2013 By
Hershey's Kisses History

‘Tis the sea­son for all things love, flow­ers, and choco­late! I bet many of you will be giv­ing or receiv­ing some (and prob­a­bly eat­ing some too ;) ) in the next few days! And, one par­tic­u­lar lit­tle choco­late always seems per­fect this time year… Hershey’s KISSES!  In fact, this Valentine’s Day, Hershey’s wants to know what your sweet­est Hershey’s KISSES mem­ory is!

One mem­ory came to mind imme­di­ately, but it’s not “my” own. One of my friends in high school was asked to prom with a bucket of Hershey’s Kisses. One of the white “KISSES” tags was replaced with a “Will you go to prom with me?” tag instead! Super cute! But, my own sweet­est Kisses mem­ory is of my grand­par­ents house. This past week­end, I spent time with my par­ents, uncle, and cousin, going through my Grand­mas things as we pre­pared to move her into a mem­ory care unit due to her Alzheimer’s. While the sit­u­a­tion is so sad, it was really spe­cial going through her things and rem­i­nisc­ing about her & my grandpa (he died just before my high school grad­u­a­tion). When I was a kid, we spent a lot of time at their house, espe­cially around the hol­i­days. I remem­ber there almost always being Hershey’s KISSES in spe­cial lit­tle glass dishes and candy jars. Spe­cial lit­tle treats at Grandma and Grandpa’s house. My favorites were once the almond ones came out! Mmmm!

Here’s a lit­tle his­tory of those cute lit­tle KISSES: Hershey's Kisses History

What is YOUR sweet­est Hershey’s KISSES mem­ory? (share with us & you could win some Kisses)! :)

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Bee Valentine’s Mailbox

February 11, 2013 By
Bee Valentine's Mailbox

In keep­ing with the bee class valen­tines theme, Big Brother and I made a bee mail­box for his class valen­tines. I remem­ber mak­ing my valen­tines mail­boxes when I was young! Those cre­ative projects were my favorite things (is it any sur­prise that I like blog­ging now?!)! So, I think I might have been more excited than he was to make one. But, once we decided on bees and I sug­gested mak­ing a bee mail­box, he was SO excited! Bee Valentine's MailboxI think it turned out great! Big Brother was quite pleased with it! He was so eager to take it to school this morn­ing and car­ried it in so care­fully. Super cute! :)

Cre­at­ing the bee mail­box was really easy. We started with a square box (a bit larger than a stan­dard square tis­sue box). But, you could use what­ever size box you have around. Creating a Bee Valentine BoxI cov­ered the box with yel­low con­struc­tion paper and then cut out black strips. Big Brother then glued on the black strips. While he did that, I cut a lit­tle half cir­cle sort of shape for a head and we glued that on to the front. Big Brother then stuck on the goo­gly eyes and used a “do-a-dot” marker for the “cheeks”. Using an X-Acto knife, I cut small slits just above the eyes & Big Brother slid in the “anten­nae”. For the wings, I drew a heart pat­tern for him to cut out. Then, we glued on the wings! Big Brother then decided his bee needed a stinger (of course!), so we cut that out of black and added a heart. Then, the anten­nae needed some hearts too! Since the box didn’t have a lid to open, I just cut a flap for the kids to drop things inside & for Big Brother to be able to access the con­tents! Creative Valentines MailboxThis mama of all boys is cher­ish­ing still being able to do a lit­tle more “cutesy” look­ing stuff before it’s all Star Wars, super­heroes, and video games! ;) I think it turned out so cute and I’m glad he was so excited to show it off. class valentines mailbox

If you’d like the bee Valentine’s Day cards that are shown in the pic­tures, just click on the fol­low­ing link to be taken to that post! :) …

 

Free print­able bee-themed valentines

Linked to: *I Can Teach My Child

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Bee Valentines {Free Printable}

February 10, 2013 By
Bee class Valentine's Cards

I’m so excited to share our bee valen­tines with you (along with the free down­load­able print­able) today! We spent some time this week­end work­ing on Big Brother’s Valentine’s cards & Valentine’s mail­box for school this week! At his school, the Kinder­garten classes each have a dif­fer­ent ani­mal theme and he just hap­pens to be in the bee class! So, since he’s young and still into a bit more “cutesy” things, I thought it would be per­fect to do a bee theme for his Valentine’s this year. But, just about every­thing I could find was some­thing about “bee mine”. I per­son­ally don’t really like that phrase (even as an adult, let alone lit­tle kids), so I decided to just make our own! The inspi­ra­tion came from the cute bee teacher gift we made for his first day of school.

Instead of “bee mine” or any­thing sim­i­lar, we decided on a nice, but sim­ple “It’s great to be your friend”. Bee Valentine_wmBig Brother loves them! He is SO excited about the bee theme and for that, I’m so excited! We (Mr. Mom Endeav­ors & I) decided to not add on any candy or any­thing. Just the sim­ple friendly mes­sage! So, I’m hop­ing he’s not the only one and he doesn’t feel left out/no one makes fun of him. Fin­gers crossed! But, for now he’s excited and he did great address­ing them to all of his friends! His hand­writ­ing has been improv­ing so much! Bee class Valentine's CardsAfter I cre­ated the cards (bee cli­part found here), I just printed them on some white card­stock and cut them out with a paper cut­ter! Super easy! I was able to get 4 cards on each paper, so for a typ­i­cal ele­men­tary class size, most peo­ple will only need to print 6 or 7 sheets! Not too bad! If you’d like to use these cards, just down­load the file from the link below. For best results, print on card stock or matte photo paper with your printer set to high­est quality.

Click to down­load the print­able—-> Bee Valen­tines

Thanks for “bee­ing” a reader of Mom Endeav­ors! Enjoy!

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Children’s Books to say “I love you!”

February 8, 2013 By
10 Children's Books to say I Love You

Do you do any gifts for your kids (or grand­kids) for Valentine’s Day? We usu­ally get the boys a lit­tle some­thing, includ­ing a sweet book! For both Big Brother’s and Lit­tle Brother’s first Valentine’s Day, we bought them copies (that we wrote in) of “I Love You Through and Through”. I absolutely adore this book and I think Baby Brother needs his own copy this year! It’s such a sweet book! Other years they’ve got­ten “Guess How Much I Love You” and “Kiss Kiss”.  And I think this year “How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?” will be the Valentine’s book of choice! So, whether for a lit­tle Valentine’s gift or just some sweet books to add to your lit­tle ones’ book library, here are 10 great children’s books to say “I Love You” with! :)

10 Children's Books to say I Love You

Such sweet books, all with dif­fer­ent ways to say “I love you” or to show the spe­cial rela­tion­ship between par­ent & child! I love read­ing books like these to our boys! Read­ing “I love you through and through” or “Guess how much I love you” to them doesn’t get old. I know it won’t be too much longer until they won’t want to snug­gle up and have us read those cute & mean­ing­ful lit­tle books to them (*sniff, sniff), so we’re trea­sur­ing that now!

What’s YOUR favorite “I Love You” children’s book?

 

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