The Best Intentions

I'm not sure why sometimes I feel like I'm a crafty person. Maybe it's because I read all these other blogs of mothers that do crafts with their kids and they have so much fun and make such cute things . . .

So, I had this idea that since this is Kadin's first year giving out Valentine's for school . . . how cool would it be if we made them?!?

I have a book full of fun crafty projects for kids of all ages - a book that I have NEVER made a single thing out of. So I dusted the cobwebs off the book and flipped to the Valentine section and found an easy card that I thought Kadin and I could work on together. It was different sized hearts glued together to look like a bunny . . . easy . . .

So one night I stayed up and traced all the hearts out of red construction paper so Kadin could cut them out. The next day while I was making dinner I had him cut the hearts . . . he did a great job! So all the hearts were cut . . . the next day it was time to glue and put them together.





I guess I didn't take into consideration the attention span of a five-year old. Did I actually think he would sit at the table with me long enough to make 16 cards!! Well the resounding answer to that question is no . . . he made one . . . and I proceeded to make 5 of them . . . and then I gave up.


That is the one card Kadin made by himself. I think it's cute, but we only made 6 of them . . . not nearly enough for his class.

His Valentine party is tomorrow . . . and he won't be handing out our homemade Valentine's . . . instead he will be giving the kids Spiderman cards from Walmart . . .

At least I tried!