Pencil Valentines with [Cutie Cupid Tag] Free Printable

Creating just the "right" class valentine is hard work especially with a 6 year old little boy who has his own opinions of what he wants his valentines to look like.  I jokingly told him (but I was somewhat serious) that "your older brother never did this to me, he always liked my valentine ideas." -- ha!  He's a chip off of the old block and loves to throw out crafting ideas.  Remember his Football Heart Valentines from last year and the Dinosaur Valentines from 2011?  This year was no different.  
This year….he was insistent to give a pencil to each of his friends.  We played around with different ideas of how to create our valentines that we could incorporate a pencil and finally settled on the one I'll show you in this post.   For the base of the treat holder I'm using the Trifold Card Die from My Creative Time.  The adorable little cupid guy is from My Cute Graphics.  

Download this cutie cupid tag here.  <---

Tri-fold Card Die by My Creative Time

======================
--> BLAST FROM THE PAST <--
If you're looking for another idea with this sentiment here is one Spencer and I created several years ago and we also have a video tutorial to go along with it.  :)

Just Write for Me Valentine

You Rock Valentine

Valentine Tractor School Box

Tractor Goodie Bags

Sharing with some of these linking parties this week! The Gunny Sack ~ Strut Your Stuff ~ Craft-O-Maniac ~  ~ That's What Che Said ~ Keeping It Simple ~ Young & Crafty ~  ~ Somewhat Simple ~ Tater Tots & Jello ~ Home Stories AtoZ ~  ~ A Diamond in the Stuff ~ Lil' Luna ~ Create & Inspire ~ Purple Pumpkin Blog Pin It

Christian Valentines with Free Printables

I {love} Valentine's Day crafts -- I think it's one of my favorites to plan for.  For my Sunday School kids I found these fun Valentines for their treat bags….and thought I'd share them with you too.  

Valentine Cards

Valentine Memory Cards

Remember these fun paper catchers.  You fold the paper and ask the person a number, you count that number of times with the folded paper, then read them the special message.  

Valentine Catchers

Free Printable Valentines with Bible Verses

Pin It

Gratitude Turkey

This craft was inspired by Little Family Fun As I promised in the Burlap Foam Board post yesterday -- here is our craft we created to put on this fun board.  ::Gratitude Turkey:: What a great way to get the kids involved in crafting as well as being reminded of how thankful we should be for all of our things!  It's also a great tradition to start for all families during this season.   

Spencer and I worked on this project together…he gave me his "opinions" of what he wanted his turkey to look like and insisted that I cut it out on my cricut.  You could also draw it free hand or find a template online.  I used card stock for our turkey but brown construction paper would work too.  Supplies I used to create our turkey:

• brown card stock for turkey body
• turkey pattern (I used the "black-out" feature on Animal Kingdom by Cricut cutting out turkey body, beak and red thing-ee under turkey's beak) 
• red, blue, orange, green, purple card stock for feathers
• feather pattern -- I just drew free hand.
• I hand cut two feet out of card stock
• face for turkey - Peachy Keen Stamps
• Sixxix Originals Die - Frame
• various markers for doodling

I laminated the turkey for extra durability and so our family can use it for years to come.  =)

To attach our turkey and "thankful" feathers to the burlap board we used thumb tacks.  We tried glue dots and poster puddy but those didn't stick to the burlap.

If you like my Burlap Foam Board -- click here to see the tutorial.

Sharing with these linking parties this week! Pin It

{Shining Jack-o-Lantern) ~ Paper Plate Craft for Sunday School

Happy Sunday!

With this being the Sunday before Halloween we created these paper plate Shining Jack-o-Lanterns to remind us that God shines His light through us.  It was a perfect opportunity to explain to the kids that Halloween is about fun times and use it as a teaching moment.  

To give the jack-o-lantern the 3D effect glue or staple each plate backwards (to give sort of a bubble or open area between the plates).  

Every year my students love making these Shining Jack-o-lanters. So Fun!

Pin It

A Treat for the Birds ~ Creation Story {God Gives Us Animals}

Happy Sunday CJToo Friends!  
If you missed last Sunday's post about sharing some of the simple craft ideas I do with my Kindergarten Sunday School Class you can read about that here.  
Today I'm sharing a fun craft you can do with your kids or grandkids that the birds will simply enjoy!  
As we continue our lessons on the Story of Creation this week we learn that God Gives Us the Animals to fill the beautiful earth.  At the beginning of Creation we already learned that God created The World, The Sun, Moon & Stars and also divided the world into Land & Sea.  This week we learn that God gave us Animals.  Animals can be soft, furry, tall, short, fat or skinny.  Some animals are our pets at home or we go to visit them at the zoo, beach, farm or other fun places.  Pin It

Fun Foam Plant Pokes ~ Creation Story {God Gives Us Land}

Happy Sunday everyone!  Today is family day in the Wellmann home and what I love most about Sundays is being able to attend Mass with my family and then teach a Sunday School/CCE (Catholic Continuing Education) class of 10 kindergarteners about God's love.  I've decided to share this with you on Sunday's here at Craft Junkie Too as inspiration to create or share with your children or grandchildren.  Since I teach 5 year olds I look for simple crafts.   I hope you find these simple ideas uplifting.  
------------------- I ♥ being a Kindergarten Sunday School teacher because I really enjoy the lessons that I get to do with the children.  The first six weeks of our kindergarten curriculum consists of the Story of Creation,  each week our lesson includes one of the 6 days it takes for God to create the world. This week we are on Day 4 which is when God Gives Us Land.   I have the children for 1 hour and within that hour we have prayer, lesson, snack and craft.  It takes some planning but I usually feel really good about how we spent our time.   To go along with today's lesson ~ "God Gives Us Land" we created these adorable Plant Pokes to take home.  

Pin It

8" Personalized Letters using Cricut's Chip Decor

When I found out that my good friend was looking to decorate her sweet little boy's nursery with stand alone letters I knew I wanted to do this for her.  She wanted a simple "block" font and Hobby Lobby has the perfect chip decor letters to spell out his adorable name. She wanted a Nautical theme design so I looked for inspiration on Etsy and by surfing the web.  

For the embellishments I found these little painted cut-outs at Hobby Lobby ready to go for my project.  

The color pattern is pulled out of his bedding and other room decor.  So…when planning for a job like this…take all of those designs into consideration to create the perfect project!  To assist me in designing these letters I pulled out my Chip Decor Cricut cartridge and cut my paper at 8". 

 Easy Peasy….

I painted the sides and backs of each letter in coordinating paper color and once dry I used Mod Podge to adhere the letters in place.  

For the C I used one sheet of golden yellow stitching lines with navy sharpie marker.

For the A I cut a navy blue and blue striped pattern paper - cut both in half and mod podged each side down. I used my navy blue sharpie and white Galaxy marker for stitch lines.

For the R I cut one in golden yellow and another in the damask pattern paper.
I hand cut/trimmed  the R about 1/4 inch smaller so the yellow would show around edges.

For the T -- I cut out of white and used my navy blue sharpie for stitch lines. 

For the E -- I cut blue striped paper and golden yellow -- just trimming to adhere the parts I wanted.
Navy blue sharpie for stitch lines.

For the R -- I cut navy blue -- stitching with white Galaxy marker.  

 The Chip Decor cartridge is sold exclusively at Hobby Lobby along with the chip board letters in a variety of sizes.  Also, you can find phrases and a few designs on this cartridge. 

Sold Exclusively at Hobby Lobby

To hang these letters on the wall I'm going to recommend the Command Strips.  They are fantastic for these types of jobs and no holes in the wall.  YAY!  

Thanks for stopping by today!  

♥Tracy

Looking for more….

Facebook | Pinterest | YouTube | Projects

Linking up with:

The Gunny Sack
I Heart Nap Time
Craft-o-Manic
A Diamond in The Stuff

Pin It