there has been a valentine buzz here in the last few weeks. we started gearing up for the big day with making valentine cards for bee's classmates. she had big, big plans. bee envisioned making her cards with a picture of each child on their card. she started off by taking her camera to school and rounding up each teacher and kid for a picture.
at home i printed all of the (mostly blurry) pictures out to about wallet size. then bee cut each picture out, around the persons body as close as she could get.
i found some cheap heart doily things and bee glued each one on a folded piece of paper.
next bee glued the faces on, along with a printed message on the inside. she wrote, "dear valentine, i hope you have a wonderful valentine's day. i hope you get a lot of valentine treats. i hope you like valentine that i made you and i love you."
the final step was to glitter, stamp and sign each card. i can't stress how amazing it was to watch and help guide this process. and although i certainly helped with the printing, suggesting and materials, i really did none of the hard work. bee did all of the gluing, the cutting, the glittering and the writing. all of it.
on the morning of valentine's day D and i set up a beautiful breakfast, while henny and bee watched the charlie brown special that i downloaded from amazon (i had never done this before, and i have to say, it's pretty awesome!). for breakfast we had heart-shaped pancakes (with tiny heart sprinkles for the kids!) and a few summer peaches that i am now rationing out only on special occasions.
the table was full of cards for each person, a special box of chocolates and a felt cookie for each kid.
the table was full of cards for each person, a special box of chocolates and a felt cookie for each kid. the cards were so sweet and special. everyone worked on them amid whispers in the days leading up. bee tried out melting crayon shreds in wax paper for a card for D, D got out the glitter for bee's card (of course!) but my card from bee took the cake. inside she wrote, "happy valentine's day. you are the best mom in the world. i love you mom. i hope you like this valentine's day." beautiful!
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I think the love of undertaking this type of project must run in our blood. Helena made 31 cards for her classmates and a few special teachers. She used potatoes carved into different shaped hearts dipped into some tag sale fabric paint to stamp a different design for each person. Then she wrote a very heartfelt sentence on each one "Rosalina is an honest friend", "Devon C. is trustworthy" and my very favorite "Publio is well behaved" - when I asked her about this one she replied that "Publio sometimes has a hard time being good, but he tries really hard to be good so I thought if I wrote this on his card that it would make him feel good about himself." I totally melted.
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