Valentine Heart Bag
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This week's Craft of the Week features a Valentine's Day activity. This Heart Bag can deliver Valentines and then be used to receive Valentine Day cards while in school or in the neighborhood.

The best part about this craft is that children can be as creative and add as many personalized touches as they want.

What they Need:

• Drawing paper
• Pencils
• Scissors
• Hole punch
• Glue stick or white craft glue
• Bag with a handle
  (can be bought in local craft store)
• choose color or white Acrylic paints
• Ribbon- any color
• Glitter Doilies- red, white, pink
• Magic markers
• Magazine cut outs

What you do:

1. Take the drawing paper and fold in half. Draw a half of a heart and cut out along the drawn lines. Open up the heart and now you have a full heart. If you have a large enough doily you can do this step with the doily.
2. Decorate the heart with magic markers, glitter, paints or/or stickers.
3. Attach the heart to the front of your Heart Bag using either the glue stick or white craft glue. You can make 2 hearts one for the front of the bag and one for the back of the bag.
4. Using a hole punch, make 2 holes in your bag under the handle. Take your ribbon and run it through the holes and tie a pretty bow. Magazine cut outs can make a fun collage look to the heart bag. Have the children cut out pictures of what love means to them and attach to the bag with either the glue stick or white craft glue.

Valentine's Card
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Heart Pinwheels
This week's Craft of the Week is brought to you by Willie Ripple the author of Valentine Parties, What Do I Do? Willie's book is chock full of ideas for Valentine's Day- all kinds of goody ideas like cupcakes and sugar cookies - craft and game ideas like valentine's Tic-Tac-Toe and Valentine Boxes. Her Heart Pinwheels are perfect for the younger set and can be done at home, during a party, in school, or in any other group setting.

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