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It would have been so easy to just go to Target and buy a box of Valentine’s and some candy for L’s school friends and call it a day, but no. I had to look at Pinterest for ideas and ended up not only making one “crafty” valentine, but two. I feel in love with the “You Make My Heart Glow” glow sticks idea and then decided I had to make heart shaped crayons too. Only because I wanted to use the cute little bags I had gotten at Joann Fabrics and because I found these cute labels to attach.  L was helping me make them and kept telling me which friend should get which crayon / glow stick.  Too cute!

And then I went into the hoard basement and found some Valentine’s Hot Wheels and Valentine’s pencils that I bought on clearance last year to round out the treat bags.  All in all, it was a very inexpensive project and I would guess each treat bag cost somewhere around $1 – $1.50 each?  Not too bad.

So what did you do for Valentine’s Day treats?  Did you take the easy smart way out?  Or did you get all Pinterest crazy like I did?

I got smart this time and avoided too many dark colors. And instead of breaking the crayons into pieces I cut them with scissors.
I used 4-packs of 24 crayons, which made 24 heart crayons. But I did throw out the browns, black and a few blue ones from each box.
I also wised up this time and put my mold on a cookie sheet. And then let it sit on the counter before I threw it into the freezer. No spills at all!
I baked them for 15 minutes at 235 degrees. I left them to cool on the counter for 5-10 minutes and I think they were in the freezer maybe 20-30 minutes?
It is certainly a pain to cut a bunch of hearts out of paper. Who would have thought?
All my crafty valentine's are done! I got the bags for the crayons from Joann Fabric and I printed the labels from some pin on Pinterest and then stapled them all together!
I also threw a Hot Wheels car (Valentine's edition of course) and a pencil in each bag.
All packaged and ready to go!

 

 

 

*I originally posted all about making crayons here, so I didn’t bother to repost all the steps. Although I did learn a few tricks from last time. The smaller the crayon pieces the quicker they melt. And don’t use too many dark colors.
**Oh, and be careful with the glow sticks.  I bought 3 packs of 10 from Target.  I  only needed about 25, but I am so glad I had extra.  I kind of forget how easy it is to crack those things!  Oops!

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