Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts

Reinventing the Valentine's Box: 5 Fresh Ideas Your Kid Will Love

Valentine's Day is a fun holiday for children, and it is a great way to show your little ones how loved they really area. One of the great traditions during Valentine's Day is the Valentine's box, which is where your child will collect their Valentine's Day cards and treats. It is easy to buy a box, but doing so won't let you be creative or surprise your child. For a fresh take on the traditional box, here are five fun and unique ways to collect Valentine's Day cards this year.


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Free Valentine’s Day Storytime at Barnes & Noble on February 9th

Stop by your local Barnes & Nobles stores on Saturday, February 9th, from 9AM - 11AM for the free Valentine’s Day Storytime Event.

Free Valentine’s Day Storytime at Barnes & Noble on February 9th

The Free Valentine’s Day Storytime Event will include a reading of Joanna Walsh’s ‘The Perfect Hug’, fun activities and treats!


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Wheel of Love Build and Grow Clinic For Kids at Lowes on February 9 {Free}

Be sure to register your children for this weekends Build & Grow Clinic at your local Lowe’s Home Improvement store location. This weeks project is a Mystery Kit.

Wheel of Love Build and Grow Clinic For Kids at Lowes on February 9 {Free}

Valentine's Day is right around the corner! Bring your child to Lowe's and they can build this Wheel of Love!

Valentine's Day Activity Pack Printables featuring Geoffrey Giraffe

Toys-R-Us has a free Valentine's Day printable activity pack featuring Geoffrey Giraffe.

The Valentine's Day Activity Pack includes a heart maze, word search and three different pictures of Geoffrey giraffe for your children to color. This Valentine's Day Activity Pack is in PDF format so you can print as many sets as you'd like!

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Free Printable Kids Valentine Cards

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, time for your kids to hand out their Valentine's Day cards to classmates, friends and loved ones.


There are many sites to visit for free printable Valentine's Day cards that your kids will approve of. We have scoured the web and below you will find a list of websites that offer a wide selection of free, printable Valentine Cards that your children can share.

Lollipop Love Bouquet

Valentine's Day is right around the corner so why not have the kids put together a fun Lollipop Love Bouquet? This simple project is fun to do and makes a great gift for a teacher, grandparent or a special friend.

What You Need:

Lollipop Love Bouquet

Free Valentines Day Cards from Chuck E Cheese (Printables)

Chuck E. Cheese is offering some fun activities for the kids and family to download, print and share.

Chuck E Cheese Valentines Day Cards

Your choices include:

Chuck E. Matching Game

Babysitter Checklist

Free Valentines Day Cards - there are eight different Valentine's day cards for you to print and each card can be redeemed for ten Free Chuck E Cheese tokens.



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Valentines Day Crafts Ideas For Kids

A small gift, a favor, an out-of-your-way effort-there are many ways to express your heart on Valentine day. Hand-made crafts are an instant hit when it comes to gifts-they not only are beautiful but also appreciated more because of the effort put into creating them.

Introduce Valentine's Day craft ideas in your family and convert your home into an activity center--the kids will love making these interesting crafts and giving them to people who mean a lot to them. Here are some Valentine's Day craft ideas listed below:

Valentine’s Day Crafts For Kids - Italian Style

Saint Valentine was born in Rome, so it’s only fitting that Italians have their own special way of celebrating Valentine’s Day, and their most popular sweet gift is perfect to make with the kids. Italians are fond of giving “Baci Perugina”, a brand of chocolate-covered hazelnuts, accompanied by a quote from a poem written in four different languages. You can make your own simplified version of this tempting confection at home.

Valentine's Day Arts And Crafts Projects

Valentine's Day Arts And Crafts Projects is a guest post by By Darren W Chow.

Valentine's day is just round the corner, and it's time for young children to engage in some fun arts and crafts projects. Here are some ideas that you may find useful.

Free ZhuZhu Pets and DaGeDar Printable Valentine's Day Cards

Zhu Zhu Pets and DaGeDar are both offering Free printable Valentine's Day Cards for your children. Each page has six different Valentine's Day cards for your children to share with family and friends.

The DaGeDar Printable Valentine's Day cards have graphics of some of Dimension 33′s hottest racers. (Direct PDF Download Page)

DaGeDar

Valentine’s Day Ideas - Free Finding Cupid eBook

Looking for some ideas for Valentines Day? The Finding Cupid ebook for Valentine’s Day might just be of help.

Valentine’s Day Ideas - Free Finding Cupid eBook

Free Game of Bowling at Brunswick Bowling Centers

This Valentine's Day, give these FREE Sweet Treats from Brunswick.

Brunswick Bowling is offering special Happy Valentine's Day, 1 Free Game of Bowling coupons.

Print out your 1 Free Game of Bowling from your local Brunswick Bowling Center coupons, cut them out and give them to all your Valentines.

Great for the kids to give out to their classmates!



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Free Disney Movie Rewards Valentines

The Disney Movie Rewards website is offering Free Disney Printable Valentines and Free Beverly Hills Chihuahua Valentines for members.

Disney Printable Valentines - Like, love, or simply adore...these printable cards are fun for all the Valentines in your life.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua Valentines - Your Valentine will love these doggone cute cards featuring Chloe, Papi and oh, those pups.

For those of you that would like to request their Free Disney Movie Rewards Valentines and are already members of Disney Movie Rewards, just sign into your account and click on the "Rewards" tab. For those of you that aren't members, registration is Free and available to the USA and Canada (not available in Quebec).

As of this post, Disney Movie Rewards is also offering "Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue" Mini Storybook, Meet Paige O'Hara, The Voice of Belle and Mickey & Friends Crafts and Recipes for Free!



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Free Toys R Us Valentine's Day Activity Pack

Toys R Us is offering a Free Geoffrey's Valentine's Day Activity Pack to download.

The Valentine's Day activity pack is a five page printout and includes word search, maze and coloring pages.

Here's a direct link to the Valentine's Day Activity Pack PDF should they remove the offer from the Toys R Us homepage.

Printing Tip: To save time and money on ink: When you choose Print, you may have noticed a button that says "Properties." Click "Properties" and then "Print Quality." Select either "Draft Print" or "Fast Draft" (options are different on some printers) to print a fast copy that saves ink!

Free Printable Kids Valentine’s Day Cards

Children love to give and receive Valentine cards. Make the Valentine's Day holiday even more special by helping your children create their own cards and decorate them.

Print the cards on 8-1/2" x 11" heavy paper or card stock. You can use regular paper but that will make flimsier cards. Some of the cards will need to be cut with scissors or a paper cutter.

Get out the crayons, markers, paint, glitter glue, rhinestones or anything else that will help design your special Valentine's Day cards.

Here's a fun list of websites that offer a wide selection of free, printable cards for your children to decorate and share with family and friends.

Free Printable Chuck E Cheese Valentine’s Day Cards

Print out the following free Chuck E Cheese Valentine’s Day Cards and let your children share them with their classmates.

Each Chuck E Cheese Valentine’s Day Card is worth five free tokens at Chuck E Cheese.

The cards expire on 3/2/11 and a food purchase is required to redeem for tokens.


21 Valentine Craft Ideas for Kids

Valentine's Day is a perfect time to sit down with your children and share your love of creativity through different Valentine's Day crafts projects. These Valentine's Day crafts can be yours to save as a keepsake or can be offered as gifts to other siblings, grandparents, friends or teachers. Most people consider the personalized Valentine crafts as the best gift one can receive.

Inside the 21 Valentine Craft Ideas for Kids eBook (which you can download for free) from the editors of FaveCrafts.com, you'll find some wonderful, fun crafts to help spread the love this Valentine's Day by spending quality time crafting together.

You'll find twenty one different crafts in the following categories: Homemade Valentines, Valentine’s Day Decorations, Gifts for Kids to Make and School Party Crafts.

Cupid's Handmade Crafts eBook

The wonderful people over at FaveCrafts.com are offering a Free download of their Cupid's Handmade Crafts eBook.

Inside the Cupid's Handmade Crafts eBook you will find over 30 cute Valentine's Day ideas for accessories, home decor, gifts and cards.

There is also a Kid's Crafts section where you will find:

Easy Valentine Photo Pins
Hugs and Kisses Tic Tac Toe
Chocolate Kiss Mouse Valentine
Felt Conversation Heart Pins

Making a Valentine's Day Woven Tote Bag for Kids

In this video clip you will learn how to create a woven basket to hold all the Valentines you get on Valentine's Day. This one requires a little more work than the basic paper tote than the paper tote from the How to Make a Valentine's Day Tote Bag for Kids craft.

This is the fifteenth and final video of the Valentine's Day Crafts with Kids
series.

Materials needed to Valentine's Day Woven Tote Bag for Kids:

Construction paper (different colors)
Scissors (safety scissors for younger children)
Pencil
Elmer's Glue
Stapler



Hope you enjoy the Valentine's Day Crafts with Kids video series as much as we do and a big thank you to Courtney Hester on behalf of Expert Village.

Please feel free to share and photos or ideas of Valentine's Day crafts with us. Just send us an e-mail and we will love posting them to the Fun 4 The Children blog!

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #1 - How to Make a Valentine's Day Card for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #2 - Making Valentine's Day Heart Animals for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #3 - How to Make a Homemade Valentine for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #4 - How to Make a Heart Suncatcher Valentine for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #5 - How to Make a Valentine's Day Butterfly for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #6 - How to Make a Heart Necklace Valentine for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #7 - Making a Kids Valentine's Day Feet Card

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #8 - How to Make a Valentine's Day Bookmark for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #9 - How to Make a Valentine's Day Heart Person for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #10 - How to Make a Valentine's Day Key Chain for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #11 - How to Paint a Valentine's Day Card for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #12 - Making a Valentine's Day Heart Wreath for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #13 - How to Make a Valentine's Day Mobile for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #14 - How to Make a Valentine's Day Tote Bag for Kids

Kid's Valentine's Crafts Video #15 - Making a Valentine's Day Woven Tote Bag for Kids

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