Treasure the Moments

A friend posted this on Pinterest tonight from http://www.bellebebes.co.uk/2013/01/this-small/. I felt compelled to share it. This explains why I do what I do every day. Our kids grow up so quickly. Even though I feel stressed out almost every day, I wouldn't trade these moments for anything. Treasure these moments while you can.

 

 

 

Snow Day Fun

Every once in a while, we are blessed with a snow day. Today happened to be one of those days.

We got out our crafting supplies and went to work, creating a marshmallow snowman. The boys drew circle bodies and pasted marshmallows around the circles. We then glued puffy balls on for buttons, mini chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth, and half of a piece of candy corn for the nose. The boys then painted snowflakes around the snowman with their fingers and painted on a hat.

Valentine's Day Photo Shoot

Today the kids and I decided to have a photo shoot in our living room. We turned the couch around, covered it with a blanket, made some heart glasses out of pipe cleaners, and the boys posed with their best funny faces. We also found some mustache and lip sucker stick covers to add to the fun. (I found these at Hobby Lobby) You could make your own out of construction paper too.

Valentine's Day Snowman Fridge

After finding the Christmas snowman fridge on Pinterest, we decided to keep our snowman up for a few more seasons. We changed his scarf color, added some heart stickers, made heart buttons, and decorated his hat. (Helps to keep unnecessary clutter off of the refrigerator!)

This was made from construction paper, minus the stickers.

Valentine's Day "Chocolate" Activity Box

My kids love doing crafts and special activities at night after school and daycare. We have just started doing activity countdowns to different holidays, thanks to my love for Pinterest!! For our Valentine's Day countdown, we created a special "chocolate box".

Step 1: Get an empty candy box. Cover the box with scrapbook paper. I found "Love" paper at Hobby Lobby. I put it on the candy box with Modge Podge.

Step 2: I found clear mosaic circles to be used for the "chocolates" at Hobby Lobby. I placed a Valentine sticker on each of the "chocolates".

Step 3: Find Valentine activities you would like to do with your kids. Print off the activites and tape them to the bottom of the "chocolates".

Step 4: Give your box a title. We are calling ours Happy ValenTIMES Day! I created nutritional facts to be placed on the back.

Watch a Valentine Movie and drink Cupid Floats

 Make Heart-Shape Pizza for Dinner

 Do a Valentine’s Day Photo Shoot-Use Mustache pops and Pipe Cleaner Glasses

 Make heart monsters

 Make Valentine flowerpots for Grandmas

 Make I love you to pieces frames

 Make tissue paper hearts

 Make monster valentine boxes

 Make secret message Valentine Hearts

 David-Do Valentine Activity Sheets, Matt write a Valentine Poem

 Color Valentine Pictures

 Make Valentine treats for your neighbors

 Write Bible Verses on hearts and mail them

 Make yarn heart cards

 Make heart sun catchers

 Go to the library and get a Valentine Book-Take the librarian a special treat.

Nutritional Facts

Serving Size                               1 Chocolate

Serving Per Container        16

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Amount Per Serving: One “chocolate” per day

Calories: 1 ---Hour of Endless Fun

Total Fat:—10 – Guaranteed Belly Laughs

Sodium: 1 –Day of build-up until the activity

Total Carbohydrate: 500mg of Energy for an Activity of Love

Dietary Fiber: 5—guaranteed hugs per day to keep you full of love

Sugars: As many as you can grab without mom knowing J

Protein: Countless memories to fill you up

Valentine's Day Heart Tree

One of the best ways I have found to teach my kids to appreciate the things and people they have is to tie it into a holiday countdown. Our latest creation is a "Love Tree". I simply took a piece of Valentine scrapbook paper and cut it into strips. From the strips, I created a tree trunk and branches. (I used masking tape to place it on the wall.)

Together, the kids and I cut out little hearts from construction paper. We each picked a color. We cut out 14 hearts in each color. (One color for every family member--including the parents!)

The kids taped the hearts to the wall around the branches.

Everyday, from February 1st until the 14th, we will write the name of someone we love on one of our colored hearts.