Friday, February 8, 2013

Class valentines - Unity FWF

Hi everyone! It has been way too long again. I last posted when the Costa Rican Exchange was in full swing and because of that and many other family and school activities, I haven't had a lot of time to craft. Valentine's Day is coming up and this year I wanted to do something cooler than store bought cartoon cards. I turned to Pinterest and saw so.....many.....COOL......ideas. We decided on some airplane cards (which I have yet to make) and these hearts made out of old broken crayons.





Step 1: Buy or find a heart shaped muffin tin (mine was $3.50 for a silicone muffin pan with 6 hearts)
Step 2: Remove paper from crayons (soak them in warm water or remove with a knife/screwdriver)
Step 3: Fill heart cups with crayons
Step 4: Cook at 275 degrees for 25 minutes
Step 5: Cool and remove to see what you have (I cooled mine outside for 10 minutes in the cold Wisconsin air)




I had my 2 year old daughter use watercolor paint on some small white "popcorn" bags and I stamped the crayons and sentiment on top of her painted designs. Inside the bag is a heart crayon and I closed the bag with a strip of washi.








These were a lot of fun for us to make together. Check out Friends with Flair at the Unity blog. Have a great weekend!

19 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing this idea.Great project.

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  2. Beautiful projects you all made!!!
    xox

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  3. Cool project! Love that you got your daughter to paint the bags :)

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  4. What a fabulous idea, and perfect for that stamp!

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  5. Oh, that's wonderful! Great stamp to use...but I mostly love how you involved your daughter!

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  6. Great way to give the little one the crafty bug. Super project!

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  7. What a great project. And I loved your daughters work!

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  8. I love how you got your daugher involved, graet project

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  9. These are so cute! great mother/daughter project :)

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  10. How cool to get your daughter involved in your project and such colourful results too! Thank you for visiting my blaog and leaving a lovely comment.

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  11. This is so incredibly awesome!!! I love that you had your daughter decorate the bags before you added the stamp. They look amazing :)

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  12. What a clever idea! I was looking at those silicone tins the other day wondering if they would work with the melting pot but the crayons are even better!

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  13. What a fantastic idea! I love this!

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  14. This is soooooo cool! Your daughter did a great job, the bags.

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