Valentines/boxes

My two girls had to make Valentine boxes for school this year. My son's class was making them in class so he didn't need to make one.

B found her idea and made hers all on her own.

She made a locker. She started with a pop tart box and covered it with paper and duct tape. then she made a lock out of fun foam and paper and decorated it with their school mascot.

Then she decorated the inside with stickers and different things.

I love that when she gets an idea in her head she figures out a way to execute it and is so creative. I am not sure where she gets her drawing ability though because I can't even draw stick figures.

B volunteers in the library at her school during both of her recess times and wanted to give something to both the librarians

I remembered that I had bought these cute tins last year after Valentines day to use so I pulled two of them out and we filled it with some m&m's and some heart earrings that I embroidered. She then made a cute holder for the earrings and tied some curling ribbon on to the handle. And we had two cute gifts for her to give to the librarians.

I showed my other daughter a few ideas for her box and she picked this one(which is not a box at all)

But a backpack. She was so happy when she saw it all done. I think it turned out so cute. I wanted to do it on pink felt, but I didn't have any and the store I went to didn't either. Also I probably should have used white buttons, but didn't think about that until I was already home working on it. I also embroidered her name on the flap where it is white.

I saw this idea last year all over the internet,but the tutorial I used for this one I found here Chair backpack.I did not follow it exactly, but I used it as a base. I did not line mine because I was running out of time. 

Here is a side view

And the back view. I put a piece of Velcro on the top of one of  the straps so she could adjust it to fit on her chair.

Not only did we work on Valentine boxes tonight, we still had to do valentines. I have been trying to get the kids to decide what they wanted to do since the 1st of February. After all the cute/fun ideas I showed them 

K deciced that she just wanted to do fun dips. I know boring huh?

B  picked fruit roll ups, but didn't want to put a cute saying let alone her name on them she said she would just put them in each box. 

my son had mentioned that he wanted to to do these super hero suckers that are all over pinterest

but it seemed that everyone was doing them so we decided to use the fruit by the foot that we already had here and this is what we came up with.

As for the teachers I made cute candy dishes and filled them with m&m's that I found on Eighteen 25's  blog. Of course I forgot to take pictures. Here is what theirs looks like

Mine were similar, but I found different bowls. I also made them for the ladies I visit teach and my visiting teaching partner. 

It is a good thing that Hubby was home and willing to help or I would have been up all night.