20 Things - Valentine's Goodies For The Whole Family

It's that time of year again.  That time when parents are asked to send items for Valentine's Day Party's and/or your child needs 25 Valentine's Cards for classmates, you need a cute snack and you want to surprise your SO with a little something.  Here are 20 fun and easy ideas.

My son's teacher asked all the parents to send a bag of candy, novelties or individually-wrapped food items for their party.  These look like fun items to send.

1.  Applesauce cups:  Over on Craftaholics Anonymous, Linda shares these adorable labels to add to applesauce cups.  Cute AND healthy.

Image belongs to Craftaholics Anonymous

2.  Matchbox cars:  Hello, Wonderful designed these cute car valentines with a free printable.

Image belongs to Hello, Wonderful

3.  Pencils:  Over on The Homes I Have Made you will find everything you need to make our own.

Image belongs to THIHM

4.  Animals:  home is what you make it has such a cute idea to attach toy animals to business cards.

Image belongs to home is what you make it.

5.  Crazy straws:  Who doesn't love crazy straws?  Ginger Snap Crafts has the cute printable.

Image belongs to Ginger Snap Crafts

Do you want to make fun, festive and tasty treats for Valentine's Day?  Try out these.

6.  Valentine's S'mores Snack Mix:  Kimberly at A Night Owl always delivers on awesome ideas.

Image belongs to A Night Owl.

7.  Mini Heart Pizzas:  Alli at Cupcake Diaries has the most wonderful recipes.  These mini pizzas are perfect for Valentine's night.

Image belongs to Cupcake Diaries

8.  Heart quesadillas:  These are super cute and full of cheesy goodness. Smart School House is behind this goodness.

Image belongs to Smart School House

9.  French toast churro bites:  Sign me up!  Oh My Goodness Chocolate Desserts has a winner here.

Image belongs to OMG Chocolate Desserts

10.  Cupid floats:  Moms Need to Know came up with a simple, but scrumptious strawberry float.

Image belongs to Moms Need to Know

Perhaps you are looking for crafts for the kiddos.  These look like fun.

11.  Washi tape heart suncatcher:  This craft from Kids Craft Room is quick, easy and pretty.

Image belongs to Kids Craft Room

12.  Love catchers:  These are so original and a fun spin on dream catchers. Meri Cherry is on to something.

Image belongs to Meri Cherry

13.  Heart rocks:  No Time For Flash Cards made these cute painted rocks.  You could leave them around your neighborhood.

Image belongs to No Time For Flash Cards

14.  Love paintings:  Simple and eye-catching way to have your kids create art.  Brought to you by Inner Child Fun.

Image belongs to Inner Child Fun

15.  Stamping hearts:    Happy Hooligans used toilet paper rolls to make this cute stamping art.

Image belongs to Happy Hooligans

Now some Valentine's fun for the adults.

16.  Strawberry mimosas:  Baking Beauty invented this lovely concoction.

Image belongs to Baking Beauty

17.  Movie night!  Such an awesome set up created by A Joyfully Mad Kitchen.

Image belongs to A Joyfully Mad Kithen

18.  Treat box:  by Unknown.  If you know who created this, please let me know.

Unkown

19.  Heart-shaped bacon:  Oh my goodness, just give me a pile of these and I'll be good.  The DIY Lighthouse will show you how.

This image belongs to The DIY Lighthouse

20.  Etsy gifts under $30:  This list has tons of lovely items for anyone on your Valentine list.  (Sorry about the bad pic.)

I hope you find the perfect Valentine for your sweetheart and kiddo!  Happy Valentine's Day!💗

Thanks for stopping by!

Natosha

16 Last-Minute Easter Crafts for Toddlers - A Roundup

Easter is upon us and I haven't even done any crafts with Jaxon.  Here are a few I found that look fairly quick and easy, and are done with items you probably already have at home.

Pinkie For Pink

Baby Savers

kids' craft ideas

Crafty Toddler Projects

No Time For Flashcards

Simple.Home.Blessing

Osito

Simple As That

Mum of One

Activity Village

Activity Village

The Active Toddler

What are your favorite art, crafts or activities to do with your child at Easter?  Besides egg-hunting, that is!

Thanks for stopping by,
Natosha

{Masking Tape Canvas Art} Try-It Tuesday

My son and I sat down the other night and tried out a craft/art project I found via Pinterest.  I was inspired by this:

Crafting Play

All you need are:

Canvas
Finger Paints
Masking Tape

Instructions
Use the tape to create a pattern on the canvas, or let your child make a pattern with pieces of tape.

Let your child paint the canvas.

Let canvas dry.

Take off tape and admire your child's masterpiece.

We did Jaxon's nickname:

And a randon set of lines (which my son calls railroad tracks):

This craft/art project was both fun and easy.

Thanks for stopping by,
Natosha

P.S.
Thank you to all my new followers!  Soon after I reach 100 followers via Google Friend Connect, I will have a giveaway as a thank you!  I'm thinking probably an Amazon gift card. 

{Valentines for Children} A Round-Up

There are only two weeks left before Valentine's Day.  Here is a round-up valentines ideas for your little one.

Crayon Hearts made from broken crayons via Inner Child Fun.



Friendship Bracelets with a personalized card via Dandee:





Magnifying Glass via Dandee




"I Dig You" Shovels via Fry Family:




Butterfly Valentine via Skip to my Lou:




3-D Photo Valentine via The Frugal Girls:




Blow Me A Kiss via Plum Adorable:




Fan {Tache} Tic Cards via Plum Adorable:





You Blow Me Away via Bloom:





U Rock via Onesie Twosie:




Fish Bowl via Faboolous:




Fish Bowl via Inspire. Create. Repeat.:





Kiss via I Am Momma Hear Me Roar:





Glowsticks via Bloom:




Gluestick via Craftiness Is Not Optional:

If you don't have the time or inclination to put together the above valentines, here's a list of printable valentines.

via Fresh Picked Whimsy

via pumpkins & posies

Dr. Who via Frantically Simple

Mustache via the mombot

via Secret Agent Josephine

via Chocolate on my Cranium

  

via kate.net

Hope you find something you like!  I still haven't decided what to do for Jaxon.  If you know of some other cute valentines, leave me a comment with the info.

Thanks for stopping by,

Natosha