Thursday, February 12, 2015

Kids Craft: Cheap & Easy Valentine's Day Care Packages

Hi! It's Jilly. I know Valentine's Day is this Saturday, but we made these cute and easy Valentine's Day care packages for the kids' cousins and I just had to share them with you!

Cheap & Easy Valentines Care Packages


Supplies:
Empty toilet paper tubes
Scrapbook paper
Glue
Small toys or candy
Clear packing tape

making an easy Valentines craft

Directions:
1. Cut hearts out of scrapbook paper and glue all over the outside of the toilet paper tubes.
making a Valentines craft
covering a toilet paper tube with paper hearts

2. Fill tubes with little goodies. We got little Valentine buttons, heart suckers, and Sixlets from the dollar store.
Valentine's Day goodies package

3. Write the lucky recipient's name and address on a solid colored piece of paper and tape to the tube. Cover the tube with packing tape so the packages will arrive intact.
valentines package

4. Take the tubes to the post office and mail to your distant loved ones. Ours only cost $2.32 to ship from New York to the West Coast and Hawaii. Not too shabby!

The kids had a lot of fun putting these together. Hopefully the cousins will like their little surprise!
making a valentines craft
making a valentines care package

Do you send Valentines to anyone who lives far away? What is your favorite Valentine's gift you've ever received? Let me know in the comments, or on Faceboook!

More Valentine's Day Goodies:

Printable Alien Valentines
FREE Printable Alien Valentines from Hi! It's Jilly. #valentines #printable #aliens #milkyway

Printable "Sucker" Valentines
"I'm a sucker for you" Valentine with Free Printable! #valentine #printable

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