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Last year,. both my daughter's need a valentine card for each kid in their classroom to swap during their Valentine's Day parties. Short on money and big on green I finally did with them what I had promised for a while, made new paper out of old paper. Lucky for us we had a paper making kit and one of the paper making molds was a heart. Imagine a light bulb over my head. Making Valentine cards out of these heart molds was, if I recall correctly, a two day process. 1 day to make and dry and the next day to decorate. My kids L O V E D! this project and they were so proud of their artistic work. I actually hated to let them give them away. I wanted to frame them.

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This year I plan to save some time and help my girls cut and paste some valentine cards. I will use gift boxes from the holidays and/or cereal boxes for card stock. I will let them use the crafty scissors with the bump edges to give the heart borders and fancy edge. I will make sure I have some eco-friendly glue, some gently used red wrapping paper, some buttons, ribbon and so on. We can't forget the crayons and markers of course of course. Oh! What about the stickers! The great thing about making our own cards is that we can make them out of almost anything.

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A good way to spend family time with your children and encourage them to be creative and eco-friendly is to make Valentine Cards. So grab some recycled paper, scrap ribbon, buttons, glue and other nifty items and get to it!

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