I think I will either go with # 4 or #5 because:
1. Wild about you card: while I LOVE the idea of no candy and these are just so adorable, the instructions are a little long and detailed for me so it makes me a little intimidated? And it looks like it’ll take a long time to poke two holes and actually tie each animal onto the card. I need to make like 60 of them, I ain’t got time for that! NEXT.
2. Edible Scrabble Valentine: I think these would be any teacher’s favorite Valentines card if they had to choose one, it encourages kids to read and spell! But I’ve never seen those cheese-its with letters on them, have you? Like last year when I printed out cute Valentine cards I found online and went to a store to look for the pink heart marshmallows it said to buy, I went to 3 stores and none of them had them. So I don’t want to chance printing these out and then not being able to find these alphabet cheese-its anywhere. And trust me, I’ve bought and eaten LOTS of cheese-its in my lifetime and I’ve never seen these.
3. S’mores Mason Jar Valentines: these are so pretty! But it looks a little too much for me, it’s overwhelming that I have to print out the card and the circle lid, buy strings, doily papers, the wooden clips & the mason jars. I like simple. My mind is too cluttered already.
#4 and #5 look very simple and easy to do, so I will do these and then make the chocolate covered strawberries for the teachers like last year. They sound all fancy and time-consuming but chocolate covered strawberries are so easy to make! And who doesn’t love them? It may just become our family tradition to make them for teachers every year.
*UPDATE: just looked online to buy Tic Tacs and the cheapest I’ve found is $15 for a 12 pack? What the what? I am not going to pay over a dollar for each kid, that’ll be over $60 and that’s just ridiculous. So I think I’ll do #1 now, #5 is cute but maybe boring? Kids want treats or toys! So I’ll poke and tie each dang card for my kids. The things us parents do for our kids.
Have you found any cute printables for Valentines? Please do share! Or will you go the traditional route of buying the valentine cards at the grocery store? Because there is nothing wrong with that, we’ve done that a few times in our family!
Sandy a la Mode says
oh my gosh! thanks for the reminder! i need to get valentines for austins class ahh!!
xo,
Sandy
Sandy a la Mode
Tamara says
Great post! I love #4, but as I was reading it thought "wow does she know how much Tic Tac's cost?" Then I saw your update! This is why I love your blog. You are so honest!!! I love that you keep your budget in mind. It makes me feel better about thinking about it too. Even so, I'm going to make those tic tac toe cards and use a pack of sixlets from the Target dollar section.