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Heart Shaped Dog Valentine Craft

Supplies Needed:

• 2 white pom poms (I used sparkly kind)
• 1 black pom pom
• Pink and white card stock paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Googly eyes

Cut out a white heart for the dog’s face and two pink hearts for the ears. Glue them on as well as the pom-poms and a pink paper tongue! Add the googly eyes and he’s ready to go!

CRAFT STICK RAINBOW CRAFT

Are you looking for a fun craft? Check this out!

Rainbow craft sticks makes this a mess free and super easy craft for kids to create.

1. Cut out two cloud shapes the same size from a white foam sheet. Use tacky glue to glue a red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple craft stick in a line at the bottom of one of your cloud shapes.
2. Add tacky glue all over the cloud and craft sticks.
3. Then line up and glue the second cloud on top of the other.
4. Add some personality to the rainbow craft by adding self-adhesive googly eyes in the middle of the cloud and then give your cloud a cute smile with a black marker.

Let dry and enjoy!

• Special thanks to Fun365 for this amazing craft idea.

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Toilet Roll Love Bugs for Valentine’s Day

Easy Love Bug Crafts for Preschoolers

The best Love bug craft for kids! I’m Kate and I blog over at The Craft Train, where we share crafty ideas for kids and parents. We are thrilled to be taking part in Red Ted Art’s ‘31 Days of Love‘ series once again. 

LOTS of ideas to inspire you.. and now to these adorable Toilet Paper Roll Love bugs! Too cute!

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Kids love hearts, glitter, flowers and being creative so it is understandable that they are attracted to making Valentines Day crafts. They don’t really get the concept of ‘true love’ at this age, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t join in the fun and make some cool stuff. These Love Bugs are very simple to put together and the sky is the limit to how they can be designed and decorated. My five and six year old girls had a blast making these.

You will need a few basic supplies to form the base of these bugs, but when you get to the decorating part you can use whatever you fancy (or whatever you happen to have in the cupboard).

For your TP Roll Love Bugs, you will need:

You basically need toilet paper rolls and ANYTHING ELSE you can find in your craft statsh.. but we used:

– Toilet rolls or paper towel rolls cut to size.
– Paint
– Googly eyes
– Pipe cleaners
– Beads
– Construction paper
– Tacky craft glue
– Marker pens
– Scissors
– Skewer

How to make TP Roll Love Bugs for Valentine’s Day:

Paint some toilet rolls and allow them to dry. You can cut them down to a shorter length to get some smaller bugs if you like. We happened to have some ready-painted rolls stashed away in the craft box so we could get straight to the decorating.

First, an adult needs to poke six holes with a kitchen skewer for the pipe cleaner legs to go through – that’s three down each side. Simply poke the skewer in one side and out the other three times.

Cut two pipe cleaners in half to get four pieces. Use three of the pieces to thread through the holes to make six legs, then attach a small bead to each end of the pipe cleaners to create hands and feet. You are now ready to add the details. You can also add some washi-tape stripes or decorate the body with stickers, markers, glitter glue etc.

To create the wings and antennae fold your piece of construction paper in half and draw a medium-sized heart for the wing shape and a small heart with a stem coming from the bottom for the antennae. Cut these out while the paper is folded in half so that you get two of each shape. Use tacky craft glue to attach the googly eyes and heart shapes last of all and leave to dry.

Aren’t these little love bugs cute? Such a fun little TP Roll craft for Valentine’s Day!

Pray for joy and peace.

No amount of money or success will ever bring your child happiness unless they learn to be content in a variety of circumstances. Real joy is found in our perspective, rather than our situations.

(Philippians 4:11 “I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.” 1 Timothy 6:6 “But godliness with contentment is great gain.”)

LOL

Science teacher: When is the boiling point reached?

Student: When my mother sees my report card!

Pray for your little geniuses safety

I believe that prayer has the ability to comfort and protect. Say these prayers over your children and have comfort in the fact that Gods love is the greatest.

Even as they suffer playground bullies and struggle to ride a two-wheeler, asking for God’s hand of protection—physical, emotional and spiritual—over your child is always a good idea.

(Psalm 4:8 “I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.”  Proverbs 18:10 “The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.”)

LOL

Mom, what’s it like to have the greatest daughter in the world?

I don’t know dear, ask your grandmother.

A little laughter goes a long way

What did mommy spider say to baby spider?

You spend too much time on the web.

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hahahahahaha- Have a great day!

A Prayer for your little geniuses character.

I believe that prayer has the ability to comfort and protect. Say these prayers over your children and have comfort in the fact that Gods love is the greatest.

A child with a strong sense of right and wrong will make better choices and be spared many of the potential sorrows of poorer ones.

Pray that they will embrace a life of integrity and goodness, even in childhood.

(1 Corinthians 15:58 “Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.”)