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|  Subject: Valentine Ideas  Mon 23 Oct 2006, 10:06 pm | |
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Cut a heart about 5 inches tall out of white poster board. Use a hole punch to punch holes around the edge. Cut a 30-inch length of ribbon. Pull the ribbon through the top center hole, leaving a 5 inch tail in front. Weave the rest of the ribbon all the way around the heart. Come up through the top center hole from behind. Tie the ends in the a bow. Write the party info in the middle of the heart.
Squishy All Over
Cut a heart shape out of a clean kitchen sponge and use it to stamp colorful hearts on all your party decorations. Brighten up streamers, paper napkins, goody bags and even a paper tablecloth with these pretty prints.
Eat Your Words
Fill a bowl with candy hearts. Have 1 person draw a heart from the bowl and act out the message. The first person to guess gets to go next.
Candy Cones
Spread frosting around the tops of each cone, then decorate with candy hearts and other tasty trim. Fill with treats and set at each place.
Valentine Candy Count
Fill jar with different colored candy hearts. Have your guests guess how many hearts of each color are in the jar. For each color, the girl whose guess comes closest wins the candies.
Heart Hunt
Hide candy hearts around the room and challenge guests to find as many as they can. Give a prize to the one who finds the most.
Hearts and Crafts
For each person you need a clear plastic frame, a supply of candy hearts, and glue. Girls can decorate their own valentine frames and take them home in heart shaped goody bags.
Heart Pops
A Valentine on a stick!
Sugar Cookie Dough
Wax paper and flour
rolling pin
heart cookie cutter
popsicle sticks
baking sheet
spatula
cooling rack
Frosting, sprinkles, cand candy for decorating
Marker and ribbon
Sprinkle flour on a sheet of waxed paper. Roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thick. Cut one for each person
Lay sticks on baking sheet. Put a smallpiece of dough under the top of each stick. Place a heart for each guest. Lay sticks on baking sheet. Put small piece of dough under the top of each stick. Place heart over each stick Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes. Take out and lett cool on rack. When cooled frost and decoate
Write names on the sticks
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gayla50
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| | Subject: Re: Valentine Ideas Mon 23 Oct 2006, 11:11 pm | |
| thanks these are so cute
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cheapy
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| | Subject: Re: Valentine Ideas Tue 24 Oct 2006, 5:07 am | |
| Oh, WOW! My favorite holiday is Valentine's Day!! Ok, ONE of my favorites!!   
Thanks, Vicki!! If you find any MORE valentine related articles/crafts/recipes...please be sure to post them for me,ok??
I especially love the cookie pop idea!!!  |
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Vicki
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| | Subject: Re: Valentine Ideas Tue 24 Oct 2006, 6:05 am | |
| No problem cheapy. I am trying to find all new ideas for things that we haven't shared yet. So hopefully I will come across some more.
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