Homemade Valentines Cards

Felt is still the big hit in the house, so we came up with an easy idea to use it for making a few valentine cards.

We took some cardstock cut it in half and folded it to cards.

Traced hearts onto felt and cut them out.

Used a few tiny drops of glue to stick them on the card just so they don't slide of right away.

As last step we used the sewing machine to attach the hearts to the card with a straight or zig zag stitch, once or twice ot three times. It doesn't need to be perfectly straight.

After showing the girls the idea Bella can make them all by themselves and Chiara just needs a little help with the sewing machine.



Preview of our next project in progress:

Hearts full of Love

Both of my girls were busy sewing hearts last weekend especially Isabell. Look at big pile she made with Oma's help. But she sewed all the bows on by herself and each has a different pearl or bead. She was working really hard all afternoon.

Here is Chiara' heart. Isn't it cute?

What shall we call it?

Finally, the day before Thanksgiving we get to do our first and only Thanksgiving craft. My girls love being crafty, I love them loving being crafty, but sometimes I am struggling to give them my okay to do because I usually need to do the clean up and this house is already struggling in getting picked up everywhere, but who does not know it tht as soon as you done at one end you can start at the other end, neverending, so addind a toddler and paint didn't sound so appealing to me because that meant bathtime right afterwards, too, to keep the paints of the floor, the walls and especially the doors and cats and toys. BUT we did it. And Soren had a blast painting his hands. He had so much fun that all the kids were paintingtwo days later again, but we figured he needs his own watercolor set (he got my old one), because he is obsessed with closing and opening the lid to it.