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Aunt Annie's Crafts/Valentines to make

Craft Idea's

Valentine Bunny

1. Baby Food Jars
2. Cotton Balls
3. Construction Paper
4. Glue
5. Scissors
6. Picture of Child (optional)

Valentines Boxes

Shakers

1. Take out a cardboard bathroom tissue tube, or cut a paper towel tube in half.
2. Help your child staple one end of the tube closed.
3. Pour in some dried beans, lentils, popcorn, macaroni, or rice, until the tube is one/third to one/half full. (Reminder: These can be choking hazards for children under three. Use caution!)
4. Help your child staple the other end shut. Seal both ends with tape.
5. Let her decorate the stapled tube any way she likes.
6. You can make several tubes and fill each with a different material. When they're all done, have your child shake them each in turn. How do they sound different?
7. Put on some music and shake, shake, shake!

Valentine's Tic Tac Toe

Valentine Tic Tac Toe

Cupid Arrows

• Cupid arrows
• 1 kabob skewer or 1 chop stick per child
• one roll of lifesavers
• one heart shaped bead
• two paper hearts.

Valentine Heart Pillow

1. premade square pillow, small (red, white or pink would be best)
2. 2 felt squares , one red , one white
3. scissors
4. fabric glue

Valentine Heart Pillow 1 premade square pillow, small (red, white or pink would be best) 2 felt squares , one red , one white scissors fabric glue
1. Cut two hearts from felt...one large , one approximately 1 to 2 inches smaller than the first.
2. Glue large heart in center of pillow......allow to dry.
3. Glue second heart on top of larger heart making sure to center this as well. Allow to dry.
4. For more glitz, glue smaller hearts around the bigger heart if you wish.....there you have it!

Valentine Gift Idea's

• Give your loved one a gift you've made yourself, incorporating souvenirs from a special occasion the two of you have shared. For instance, laminate a keepsake box with snapshots taken during your courtship. Or frame a special drawing or painting you created while on a particularly romantic trip.
• Give your mate a ring or watch engraved on the inside with your own and your love's initials, or a romantic phrase.
• Buy your love a sexy, sensual piece of clothing. Make sure it's something that feels really good to wear, such as a silk shirt, a floaty sarong, or ultra-soft socks.
• Start a scrapbook chronicling your coupledom. Devote certain pages to your home, to holiday trips, to important moments in your lives together.
• Make collages with snapshots, ticket stubs, cut-outs from maps or brochures, pressed flowers, match book covers, etc. give it as a gift on your anniversary.
• Commission two personalized champagne flutes to use on special occasions or for everyday. Consider having crystal, silver, or pewter flutes engraved with your entwined initials or your wedding date. Alternatively, have a local artist or craftsperson create one-of-a-kind ceramic chalices or hand-blown glass goblets.
• Buy gifts ahead-of time, and warehouse them in a "Gift Closet."
• Buy her a locket and put your pictures in it
• Tiffany roses, they are a little more expensive, but are exquisite, with a fragrance like no other. The perfect think to bring home after a long day. (thanks to Ira)
• Invest in cards! Have cards around for every occasion. You never know when the mood will strike. Don’t let it go unfulfilled because you don’t have the supplies. I love notes. Post-its are a romantics best friend. Put an ILOVEYOU on the bathroom mirror, a heart on the meatloaf in the frig... all over. Put a special request in the panty drawer(thanks to Ira)
• Another way to use notes is the treasure hunt. Leave a trail of notes... guide him or her from the kitchen to bed room to closet all over, leave candy kisses or other love-charms along the way. Let the last clue lead to the shower, or a special place to cuddle... (thanks to Ira)
• What I'm planning to do for my girl this Christmas is write her a song and sing it.. Anyway I was gonna get video taped images of me and her and make a music video by dubbing in the sound with the images. She can watch it and listen to me sing her a love song at the same time. The best part of it is she can either show it off to all her friends or just keep it for her own use..(thanks to romen)
• Get one of those greeting cards or picture frames with a recordable chip in it. That way you can leave a personalized message.
• Create a Time Capsule- Put wonderful things that remind you of your love for each other in it. On your next anniversary, dig it up and look at it.
• Do YOU have a favorite photo of her, the two of you, or her and your children? The most beautiful of picture frames can be purchased at all cost levels and of all different materials. Put in your favorite photo for her nightstand or desk. It will touch her to know it's your favorite!
• Start a charm bracelet for her.! Get one for her for a special occasion and continue to add a charm for other special occasions.
• Have a provocative photograph taken. Find a REPUTABLE photographer in town to do it. You don’t want those negatives ending up where they shouldn’t. Frame one and give it to him for the office if you dare. If not, have wallet sized pictures made.
• Have a special photograph blown-up to poster size. Most copy shops do this. Hang it in the bedroom or family room.
• Buy a set of satin sheets and put them on the bed without saying a word. What a soft surprise.
• Make a care package with love notes, cookies, phone cards(for long distance relationships), musical tapes, a new movie, or other little gifts. Pack it and put it in the mail. Don’t forget a new picture of yourself.
• Send a lipstick imprint of your lips, laminated, that they could keep with them.
• Arrange with an airline steward or stewardess to have a gift or flower delivered to her after the flight is airborne.
• Does your honey drink a lot of coffee? Buy a kit to design your own coffee mug. Most of them come with a mug and crayons. You create your own design and microwave the cup to make it permanent. Give her an extra lift in the morning.
• You can get colored Elmer’s glue at the store. Draw a picture on a window or mirror with the glue and it will dry colored. When you want to remove the design it peels right off of glass.. Give him a field of flowers in the middle of winter.
• Make a permanent bouquet out of colored construction paper. Put it in a basket or a flower box or a vase. Never needs watering.
• Got lots of time? Cut dozens of paper hearts of different colors., attach string and hang them from the ceiling with tape or a stapler.
• Get a bunch of WILD flowers and deliver them. It's a lot different than just ROSES!
• Stop by the flower shop now-and-then and get a single flower.
• Make something childish using Elmer's glue and construction paper. Wrap it up and give it as a gift.
• Send him flowers at work.
• Fill up the car with balloons or flowers.
• Hide a great gift inside something else. This happened to me once. For Valentine's day, I got a box of chocolate covered cherries with a gold necklace hidden where the second layer of candy should have been .

Hey Good Lookin! What You got Cookin!

Cake in a Mug

1. 1 Boxed cake mix any flavor
2. 1 ( 4 serving size) instant pudding mix ( not sugar free), any flavor

Flavor Ideas:

1. Lemon cake mix- lemon pudding
2. Yellow cake mix - pistachio pudding
3. White cake mix - white chocolate pudding
4. Yellow cake mix- chocolate pudding
5. Devils food cake mix- chocolate pudding
6. Pineapple cake mix- coconut pudding
7. Butterscotch cake mix- butterscotch pudding

Glaze mix

1. 1/3 cup powdered sugar
2. 1 ½ tsp dry flavoring ( such as powdered lemonade mix, powdered orange breakfast drink mix, cocoa powder)
3. Vanilla powder sold by coffee flavorings

These cookies can be "altered" by choosing only particular colors of M&M's when making them for holidays.... Use pastel for easter Red & Green for Christmas Red for Valentines Day Green for St. Patty's

QUICKIE COOKIES

1. 1 pkg yellow cake mix
2. 2/3 cup quick-cooking oats
3. 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
4. 1 egg
5. 1/2 cup M & M's

Squeezable Candy

1. 2 Tbsp. Soft Butter or Margarine
2. 1/2 cup light Karo syrup
3. 2 sq. unsweetened chocolate, melted
4. 1 tsp. vanilla
5. 3 cups powdered sugar
6. 3/4 powdered milk

Poochie's Valentine

Dog Biscuits

1. 2 1/2 Cups whole wheat flour
2. 1/2 Cup Powdered dry milk
3. 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
4. 1/2 Teaspoon Garlic powder
5. 1 Teaspoon Brown sugar
6. 6 Tablespoons Meat drippings
7. 1 Each Beaten egg
8. 1/2 Cup Ice water

1. Preheat oven to 350. Lightly oil a cookie sheet. Combine flour, dry milk, salt, garlic powder and sugar. Cut in meat drippings until mixture resembles corn meal. Mix in egg. Add enough water so that mixture forms a ball. Using your fingers, pat out dough onto cookie sheet to half inch thick. Cut with cookie cutter or knife and remove scraps. Scraps can be formed again and baked.
2. Bake 25-30 minutes.
3. Remove from tray and cool on rack.