The Brown Eyes Have It: Valentine Craft with the kids

Welcome "Show Me Some Love" blog hoppers. Glad you came to visit. Hope you stay a while and take a look around.

Love is in the air . . . more Valentine's crafts today, this time from Leslie. Not only does she throw an awesome birthday party, but Leslie always has great craft ideas she does with her boys. Here's Leslie:

I saw this idea from Martha Stewart's website and have had it sitting in my Pinterest file until we tested it out Sunday night. (Now that we have early church this year, we've been able to try out new craft or art projects Sunday evenings). It was even fun for my boys, and the results are really pretty.

First, we sharpened crayons in a pencil sharpener and put all the shavings here on a piece of wax paper. After we filled most of the bottom side of the paper full, we folded the top half over the bottom half.

Top half is folded over bottom half here. (wax paper, crayon shavings, wax paper)

Then, put newspaper under the wax paper and on top of it. Next, iron on top of the newspaper to melt the wax.

Sorry, Coach Rose. As if you hadn't already had a rough night.

It comes out looking something like this.

Then we took cookie cutters and traced heart shapes on the paper. I cut the shapes out, hole punched the top, and tied red yarn though it.

Now we have them hanging in a few places in the house where the sunlight will shine through them.

My five-year-old thought they were so cool, he insisted that I make one into a necklace for his kindergarten teacher... and he gave it to her today! Nothing like an early valentine. They would also look neat glued to the front of a valentine cards!

Thank you to Kristen at One Tough Mother for putting together this awesome blog hop. Now go visit all the rest of the participants and show them some love!