Valentine Box Ideas For Your Childs School Party
Every child wants to have the best valentines box for the class party at school. So whats a craft-impaired parent to do? Dont worry, try to emphasize having fun instead of perfection and read on for a few ideas for Valentines boxes for your child.
Go Simple
You can tape up an old heart shaped box of chocolates, after eating the chocolates of course, cut a slot for the Valentines to enter and let your child decorate the outside by gluing on those little message hearts, glitter or hearts cut out of construction paper.
Go Natural.
Ideas for Valentines boxes can come from things around you. This time of year, its common to long for spring. Use the opportunity to make your own pot of geraniums or other favorite flower.
You can make the flowers from tissue paper or buy silk. Use pipe cleaners for stems and glue on a few fake leaves. Cover the top of the flower pot with a sturdy, painted cardboard with a slot for the cards, and poke your stems through, secure with a knot or strong tape and youre all set!
You can even glue moss onto the cardboard cover to make it more realistic. For real oomph, use brightly colored tissue paper or make the flowers oversized.
Get It From The Horses Mouth.
Be sure to ask your child if they have any ideas for their Valentines box. Children are naturally creative; they may come up with a real winner.
One idea for a simple Valentines box is the old stand by mailbox. By cutting up cardboard sections, securing from the inside with duct tape and leaving a slot in the front the Valentines, you can have a box in a jiffy.
Let your child paint it blue or their favorite color using acrylic of temper paints. Then let them go wild with the little decorations like candy hearts, streamers or tissue paper flowers on the outside. You can even get creative a rig up a cardboard flap in the front supported with a little string that allows the children to open the door to insert the cards.
Being un-crafty doesnt mean that you cant come up with simple, great ideas for your childs Valentines box. You can always steal an idea from a magazine or online. After all, theres nothing new under the sun. |
