A Mommys Adventures does a really fun weekly blog carnival on Thursday’s. It’s called stART
You read your child a book and then accompany it by art!
This book was really cute, the little girl in the book keeps the hearts that rain down, she mails them to her friends.
Our homeschool group is having our Valentine’s Day party tomorrow so I picked up at Target in the $1.00 section the little metal Valentine’s Day boxes. At the party the other kids can put my children’s Valentine’s in my kids mailboxes.
I painted all 3 of my children’s hands & then pressed their handprints on the mailboxes. This didn’t turn out as pretty as I hoped because it’s on a slippery surface + the shape of the boxes. (It was interested doing the baby’s hands because I have never done this with her before) Then I gave the boys different foam stickers (animals, hearts, etc.) to decorate their boxes. My oldest spelled his name on the side of the box by himself & did a very nice job! I helped my toddler with his name, he did the rest. For the baby my oldest decorated her’s! We had fun doing this & can’t wait to use them tomorrow at our party!
handprints (red are the boys), (pink my baby girls)
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its really very nice and beautiful thanks for sharing this with us…
Very cute! I think they look great!
Great idea to decorate the mailboxes. We also have this book and enjoy it!
What cute ideas!
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cute our target has those too 🙂 i love the dollar spot!
Okay, you and I are definitely on the same page! I read this exact story to my kids yesterday and we did it for our stART project, only we made heart trees. And last year I bought those same mailboxes from Target and the kids decorated with stickers. Great minds think alike, I guess? 🙂
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That’s funny! 🙂 I will check your stART out on your blog! 🙂
I believe Target is out of stock of those mailboxes- we did a mail decor activity this week too!
(The addition of the kiddos hand prints really makes these special!)
These came out great!!!
We have the same mailbox, and I am going to pull it out next week in prep for Valentine’s Day. Those decorated mailboxes look very pretty – I hope that Valentines will fit inside 🙂
This is awesome! I love this idea. Cute book too. Thanks for sharing this, hope we have the time to do this too.
We did this book for our stART this week too!
Will be posting tomorrow about it and our Valentine’s day party 🙂
~Sela
I always loved making Valentine mailboxes when I was little. My daughter made one in her 4K class and is excited to receive some valentines.
Cute! I’m sorry the handprints didn’t turn out the way you wanted them, but I’m sure the kids had fun with the foam stickers!
Very cute, I think Emily would love this book and your mailboxes came out so cute!
Thanks for linking up :0)