my 3 year old daughter, luciana, came home from pre-school yesterday
with a note from her teacher letting us know all the names of her classmates in
case we wanted to do valentine’s day cards. yes, it was a little last minute
but lucy had been home from school all week while our city was digging out from
the 2+ feet of snow we got over the weekend. earlier today i had been out
running errands and had a fleeting thought of, i wonder if i’m supposed to do
cards or if they’re going to make them during school…? i don’t even know how
many kids are in her class. i didn’t buy anything. lucky for me, i have a ton
of card-making supplies on hand (it is my business, after all) and i love the
personal touch of something homemade. plus, my mom had just sent us a package
of valentine’s chocolates and fun accessories and stickers (phew). lucy
looooooves stickers. of course, they don’t last very long before being stuck to
everything in sight (though i try to enforce the rule of “stickers on paper or
people only” so we’re not scraping them off of walls or furniture).
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| decorated by lucy |
i found some blank cards (hot pink on one side, white on the
other) and put lucy to work. i set up an assembly line and told her to add
stickers to each one (we counted together to make sure each card had the same
number of stickers). then i gave her pink and red markers and had her color
whatever she wanted on each one. i just added the date, “happy valentine’s day”
and “from lucy” (I also added classmates names after i took the photos). here’s
what we ended up with:
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| front |
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| front detail |
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| back |
she only had to make 6 but i still wanted to keep it simple
so she didn’t lose interest before making them all (sorry half completed christmas ornaments at the bottom of my closet, the painting and the glitter and the glue was just too much! maybe next year). i love the fact that
they’re all different. it was a fun afternoon activity to do together and she was so proud that she made them herself! i sent her on the bus with them in her backpack so i hope they make it to school without all the stickers peeled off and stuck to her shoes...
