February 13, 2013

I Mustache You A Question

How much fun is it to make your own Valentine's Day cards?  The kids really got into Valentine's Day this year, they were super excited to make their Valentine's for their friends.  That was until it came time to actually make them.  We had a lot of fun coming up with ideas, planning out what we were going to do, cutting them out on the Cricut and that was the end of the fun. The kids picked out mustaches attached to suckers so it would look like you had a mustache when eating your sucker.  Very cute and fun up until it came to writing names on the cards.  Ben of course got off easy since his class asked that no names go on the cards to make passing out easier but McKenzie had to slave away on hers for what seemed like forever.  Next year I'm going to break it up over a week or so and try to cut down on the pain.

Here's our prototype when we were planning.  The kids really liked them at both classes.




Mid process trying to explain over and over the correct way to write them out... To XXX and then Love McKenzie.  Most of them ended up Love XXX to McKenzie.  The good news is everyone in her class is at the same age so they won't notice.



We almost ran out of hearts we had so many restarts.  That was one time I was glad I hadn't just picked up a box of cards at the store - we would have run out for sure.




During our planning phase - testing out different mustache options.  In then end a mustache is a mustache - all were worth a good laugh.


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