Homemade Valentine's Robots

For Family Home Evening tonight we had a little chat about how Jesus wants us to love everyone. We then made valentine's so we can show some people that we love them.

I found the cute robot valentine idea in Family Fun Magazine, it is the only magazine (besides the church ones) that I've ever subscribed to and I love them. So many cutesy ideas and only $5 for a year.

You just get some construction paper and fold it into a 3-D triangle. Cut a little hole at the bottom so he has legs. We used heart shaped candies for feet but you could use any fun size candy. They would be even cuter if you use a round candy for the eyes, rolos or life savers, we didn't have any so we just colored the eyes. You can use bar codes for noses or mouths. The arms are just pieces of tinfoil we cut out and taped on.

My five year old little boy just loved helping me make these for his friends!

All of our supplies.

Box Stilts

Here's a fun little craft the kids can help make and even play with outside too.

All the supplies needed: 2 Juice cartons, string, a pen or pencil, newspaper, scissors, and tape.

Start by punching a hole on the side near the top with your pen or pencil. Make another hole on the other side. Then string a string through the holes and tie (should be about child's waist height).

Stuff the box full of newspaper. The more you put in the better. After it was finished we had to reopen one box to put more newspaper in.

Tape the ends closed and ta da he is now four inches taller.

Box Car Racer

I know, a box car isn't a new or overly novel idea but sometimes we need to be reminded of the classics.  My four year old and I were trying to think of something fun to do together while the younger one was sleeping.  This is what we came up with.  I think pretty much anything having to do with cars is a winner with little boys.

We started out by spray painting our box.  You don't have to paint it; we just had the paint on hand and thought it would be fun.  You should really let the paint dry over night or it will rub off on everything it touches.

Next we needed to make our steering wheel, headlights, tailights, and wheels.  For the steering wheel we used a paper plate.  My boy had fun decorating everything by coloring them.  For the wheels we cut out the middles of the paper plates so they would be roughly porportionate to the box.  The headlights were orange construction paper circles and the tail lights were red construction paper circles.

To attach the steering wheel you poke a small hole through the plate and box.  Then attach the plate with a brad.  I let the boy glue on the wheels and lights.

Here he is taking the car for a spin.  This was a fun craft for us to do together; not too time consuming and we used only things that were already on hand around the house.