I've been on a candy-free kick, mostly because I hate it when my kid gets too loaded up on sugar and I don't want to pass that on to anyone else. My anti-goodie bag approach went over well at N's birthday party, so I'm doing something similar for Valentine's Day -- for the kids, that is. The teachers deserve all the chocolate they can get!
Candy-Free Valentine's Day For Kids:
I want to give credit where credit is due: I came across this adorable idea for Valentine's 'cards' with crayons instead of candy. Albeit simpler and probably not as cute, I made these for N's class. I might have spent a bit more than I would have on out of the pack Valentine's, but I'm okay with that (I made up for it with the teacher gifts!).
What You'll Need:
- Crayons - the idea that I came across used loose crayons, but I opted for 8-pack boxes with classic colors (approximately $1 a box)
- Red card stock paper
- Double sided tape
- Heart stickers
- Edging stickers
What You'll Do:
- Figure out what message you want on the Valentine's (I went with "Color Your Heart Out!"), type and format so that you can print it out
- Cut out the "card" for each box of crayons with edging stickers
- Put the card onto the crayon box with the double-sided tape
- Finish by adding in a heart sticker
Voila! So easy!
SUPER Inexpensive Valentine's for Teachers
Again, giving credit where it's due, I found this adorable idea here. I'm all for a good pun and being thrifty -- and this is both! I was able to make these for about $2.70 per teacher, which is awesome!
What You'll Need:
- 1 box of Betty Crocker brownie mix, per teacher (found on sale at Wal-Mart for $1 each)
- 1 Betty Crocker spatula, per teacher ($1; available at Dollar Tree)
- Valentine gift bags (found these for 2 for $1 at Dollar Tree)
- 1 package of Valentine's tissue paper ($1 at Dollar Tree)
- Red card stock
- Plain white printer paper
- Twine
- Regular tape
- Double-sided tape
- Glue gun
- Scissors
- Edging Scissors
- Paper guillotine
- Hole punch
What You'll Do:
- Use a few dots from the glue gun to attach the spatula to the brownie mix -- this gift capitalizes on the red on the product/packaging and the brownie pun, so I wanted to make sure to highlight this
- Type up a quick message to your teacher - I went with "I'm aiming for brownie points!" before jumping into saying Happy V-Day. I also found a cute graphic online to use to tie into the message. Print these out on normal printer paper
- Use your paper guillotine (or scissors if you can cut a straight line, unlike me) to trim down your messages to a standard size
- Cut down the red card stock to frame out your message on the white computer paper
- Attach the message on the white computer paper to the red card stock by using double-sided tape
- Punch a hole into the top center of each card
- Use the twine to tie the card to the gift bag and use regular tape to secure the ends of the twine to the bag
- Put some decorative tissue paper in to make everything even cuter
Ta-da! You have a really cute teacher gift that won't break the bank!
Happy Valentine's Day!
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