macaroni valentines

It's Valentine time again. Even though M has yet to start school, we still make Valentines to give to our family. Last year we did a handprint heart. This year we decided to do some macaroni art. 

Before M got involved I painted some macaroni white, pink, and red. I did this by putting them in a Ziplock bag with the paint and shaking them around. Much quicker than painting each one. I let them dry on wax paper. 

I cut hearts out of card stock then cut holes in half of them to serve as picture frames. The ones without holes became the backs. 

We colored with red and pink crayons then added the macaroni with glue (M's current favorite art activity is gluing). They came out cute and we were able to write on the back sides. 

Valentines

M doesn't go to daycare so we didn't have any little friends to make Valentines for this year.  Instead, we made some for a few of our relatives.  These were fairly easy to do and M had a pretty good role in helping to make them, which is always my goal.

We started by gathering a bunch of our pink and red construction paper sheets and painting them.

Next I traced M's hands on cardboard and cut out several of each hand from the paintings he made:

 Last, I cut out some hearts and glued a left and right hand onto the heart.  We had extra hearts so I made a decoration for the door to our basement as well.  We tend to hang a lot of M's art there:

On the back of each I wrote them out and then M "signed" them with crayon.  There's always something I don't get a picture of!