Valentine Mailbox : Giraffe

Create a neat Giraffe to hold all of your Valentines.

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need a paper lunch bag, red and yellow paper, scissors, tape or glue, and markers or crayons.

To begin take paper bag and cut the top half off- making your bag about half the height it was originally.

This is your mailbox. Next cut out a red heart for the front of the box and Giraffe features and arms.

Assemble the pieces using the picture as a guide and you will have a cute Giraffe mailbox.

Enjoy Crafting! 

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Valentine Mailbox : Panda Bear

Collect your Valentines in a cute Panda Bear Mailbox.

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need a paper lunch bag, black, red, and white paper, scissors, tape or glue, and markers or crayons.

 To begin take paper bag and cut the top half off- making your bag about half the height it was originally. This is your mailbox.

Next cut out a red heart for the front of the box and white and black panda features and arms.

Assemble the pieces using the picture as a guide and you will have a cute panda bear mailbox.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Easy Paper Lanterns

Today's Craft Project:

Easy Paper Lanterns

Create some simple paper lanterns from colorful construction paper.

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need colorful construction paper, scissors, a stapler, and markers.

 To begin take a piece of paper and fold it in half.

Now hold the paper so the fold is facing you. Next take your scissors and make vertical cuts all along the fold leaving an inch at either end and about 1/2 inch between cuts.

 Next unfold the paper and bend into a roll lengthwise and staple the top edge together and the bottom edge together to create your paper lantern.

Next take another piece of construction and cut a paper strip to staple to the top of your lantern as a holder. Decorate more with markers if you wish.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Valentine Butterfly

Create a Valentine Butterfly which will make your Valentine's heart flutter!

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need red, pink, and white paper, scissors, glue and markers or crayons.

To begin cut out paper hearts of varying sizes.

Using the picture as a guide assemble the hearts on a background piece of paper, gluing each in special, to create a very special Valentine Butterfly.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Valentine Flower

Create a special heart flower Valentine.

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need red paper, scissors, glue and markers or crayons.

To begin cut out a large red heart.

Using the picture as a guide assemble the heart on a background piece of paper and draw around it flower petals and a flower stem and leaves to create a very special Valentine Flower.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Valentine Fish

Today's Craft:

Valentine Fish

Create a super special Valentine Fish for your Valentine!

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need red, pink, and white paper, scissors, glue and markers or crayons.

To begin cut out paper hearts of varying sizes.

Using the picture as a guide assemble the hearts on a background piece of paper, gluing each in special, to create a very special Valentine Fish.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Fire Breathing Dragons

Today's Craft:

Fire Breathing Dragons

Friendly fire breathing dragons that will take your breath away.

Craft Project Directions:
Cut out a dragon and a breath full of fire from a heavier weight paper using the templates provided below.

Attach the fire to a small craft stick at the end to create a tab that you can pull in and out.

Next cut a slit in your dragon's mouth that you can slip the fiery breath through and slide it back and forth.

 Now decorate your dragon with tissue paper scales, cotton ball or paper eyes, color him with crayon, and add other materials.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Heart Mouse

Create a simple mouse using a heart and some yarn.

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need some black and red construction paper, scissors, glue, a black marker, and some yarn.

To begin cut out a red heart and some small black circles from your construction paper.

Glue the black circles onto your red heart to create your mouse - the black circles are the ears - use the picture as a guide. Next take your black marker an draw in eyes and a nose.

Now attach a piece of yarn to the underside of the mouse to add a tail.

 Enjoy Crafting!

Chocolate Kiss Flowers

Chocolate and a flower - what could be better?

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need hershey kisses, wodden skewers, green pipecleaners, red cellophane, scissors, and tape.

To begin cut a large square from the red cellophane using your scissors.

Next take two chocolate kisses and hold them so the botttom are together - this is your basic flower shape. Next wrap and gather the red cellophane around the two chocolate kisses.

Place the top of the wooden skewer so it meets the end of the bottom chocolate kiss and is covered by the gathered cellophane. Tape all of this together so it holds and then cover the tape and the wooden skewers by wrapping green pipecleaners around them. Add pipecleaner leaves to the stem if you wish.

Enjoy Crafting!

Little Snow People

Today's Craft:

Little Snow People 

Grab some white clay and make some cool snow people.

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need some white clay and some little materials with which to decorate your little snow people.

Try some tiny twigs, pieces of pipecleaners, little stones, and more- just add them to your clay snow figure.

Enjoy Crafting!