Love the book

These are a cute way to spruce up the book you are reading.  We are doing the book one thousand gifts for small group and I am so in love with it.   These would also make great valentines for teachers!

I am enjoying the snow day today curled up in my new cozy corner soaking in this book.  If you want to check out her blog (which is also awesome) you can head here.  Hope you are enjoying your snow day. 

Kiss me

 

This was just a fun thing I wanted to try after seeing this on pinterest. I didn't even use paint...its sharpie marker!!!  I colored me in my hot hubby.  I put a magnet on the back so it can go onto the fridge.  I told Lady J they were kissing so she likes to take it off the fridge and open and close them while making kissing sounds!  You could also just keep this on a desk and fill it with LOVE notes! 

Salt dough decorations

 

 These salt dough decorations where very easy to make.  I followed this recipe.  The kids loved helping.  

Once the decorations where all on a tray I poked a hole through the top of the hearts so we could hang them up once they were finished drying. 

We made them on a Friday so I let them sit out all weekend as well.  During this past week while Eben and I were doing school Jaelyn was painting all the hearts we had made. 

I am so impressed with her craftiness for being 2 I think she did a great job of painting all these hearts.  And she didn't even try to eat any of the paint which was GREAT! 

When she was finished painting we let them dry and then the next day she did all the backs for the hearts.  Once they were all dried we put jute through the holes and hung them outside in a tree. 

The pop of color looked beautiful out there for the hole day they survived.  I should have checked the weather and didn't realize we were getting high winds of up to 100 km/hour.  Good thing I only put a few out there and we have lots more to hang up tomorrow. 

They are staying on the tree really well.  I love looking out the window and seeing a little pop of color against the snowy ground.

Pom pom fun

 

These pom pom decorations are new this year and I love them!!!  They are easy for the kids to do as well; just make sure they are careful with the needle. 

I used a very long piece of white thread and 2 bags of mini pom poms from the dollar store.  I didn't follow any pattern.  I clustered groups together, left some string showing...I just did whatever I wanted to! hehe.  Well the kids actually did.  Then we hung them up over the windows. 

Love more LOVE month decoration ideas check out my pinterest

Valentine decoration

Here is a new decoration this year.  I saw the idea on pinterest of course and loved it so much I thought I would do one just like it but instead of letting it lean again a wall (not a great idea here with 3 kids) I would hang it on the wall. 

I love this frame and use it for lots of different projects like the Christmas count down and we even used it for family pictures one year. 

For the hearts I cut them out using my Cricut.  I laid the frame up side down attached white string and glued 2 hearts together on the string.  Then I put a piece of white tissue paper with sparkles behind it and hung it up on the wall.  I wanted to use this as count down to Valentines day but I decided to do the book instead. 

For more LOVE month ideas check out my pinterest board. 

Valentine Scrabble

I love decorating with pictures and scrabble letters for LOVE day.  

The great thing about scrabble letters is you can choose whatever words you want. " I am my LOVERS and He is Mine" 

This family picture in the back ground was taken last Valentines when we did our special Sonic Resturant. 

Valentines Advent Book

As many of you readers know I LOVE LOVE and look forward to February all year long.  I love being able to learn about what LOVE is and I really enjoying being able to teach my children what it means to really love...the way that Jesus calles us to love people.  This year I wanted to do a Valentines day count down but  was searching for a way I would count down the 14 days.  I knew that I wanted to use scripture verses for every day just like we do for the Christmas season.   And one day as I was browsing pinterest I saw exactly what I was looking for.  It was a paper bag album.  I went through my craft stash and found some small candy paper bags and went to work. 

 

 To start I took 4 paper paper bags and layered them.  The first one was closed side on the left open on the right, the next was open on the left closed on the right...and so forth.  When all 4 were there I folded it in half and used embroidery floss to sew up the middle steam. 

Then I started with the verses about LOVE that I wanted to study together as a family.   The first one I wanted to start with was John 3:16 which states how much God really loves us. 

 Also I love how the word Valentine fits into it. 

I continued through the book writing out different scripture about love.   

I jazzed up the pages by using heart stamps I have. 

One thing I really love about making paper bag albums is the open end of the bag becomes an extra spot to put things into.  So in our book we have practical ways (mini activities) written in there so we can show our love to our friends, family, neighbors and strangers.  No use just learning God's word without being able to put it to practice. 

For the front and back of the book I used 2 different LOVE stamps and few little embellishments for the final touch. 

Here is a list of the 14 verses we are using this year. 

John 3:16

Mark 12:30-31

Matthew 5:46

Luke 6:35

Proverbs 17:9

Psalm 145:8

1 Corinthians 13:1

1 Corinthians 13:2

1 Corinthians 13:4

1 Corinthians 13:13

Deuteronomy 5:10

Romans 8:35

Romans 12:10

2 Corinthians 6:6

For lots more love day crafts head on over to i heart nap time for some inspiration!