Valentines!

We had to make some Valentines, and quick. We were already a day late. I had wanted to paint some wet on wet  red abstract beauty onto think watercolor paper.  But that takes a long time to dry and since I never got around to it. I pulled out the paper and used our beeswax block crayons instead. We swirled and mixed and colored red and purple and orange. Then I traced out some heart shapes and started cutting.  I was a good start. Digging around I found some water color crayon and after dipping them in water I made some nice deep, saturated red hearts in the center of our paper hearts. But, we still needed more. OUt came the hole punchers and reminiscent of doilies we started punching little borders on our hearts. My five year old was writing her friends names and punching patterns. My two year old wanted in on the action. I got out some yearn and put a bit of masking tape in the end and each valentine became a little sewing card for him to decorate with red yarn. Of, he sewed and sewed. One after another, he loved it. Wow, I was surprised.

Now, my five year old decided hers needed more color. So more hearts and more color. Another surprise came when she decided to add a black smudge to each valentine. "Its just a little squiggly smudgy thing. Every one has one. See, I added it to them all."