Wonka Valentines

Boy, oh boy have the valentines that kids share in class changed since back when I was a kid!

We're sitting here after school unpacking Dima's bag of "valentines" and it looks like trick or treat night !! Each of the things with the kids' names on them ( we used to do that part ) has a treat of some kind ( we never did that kind of stuff). Welcome to Valentine's Day sponsored by Hallmark, Wonka, Super Heroes, Dora and every other marketable figure out there. We've go temporary tattoos and m&ms and lollipops and home made cookies and pixie stix and a little paper football game and even one that a kid cut out herself.

All this after I decided to make Dima's outgoing valentines by having him sit down with scissors and construction paper and cut and glue hearts on little cards and then write each kid's message on his own. Surprise, surprise he actually had a great time doing it. I thought it might be a drag to make him do it but he was good at cutting out the hearts and asked to keep going!! He seemed proud of himself that he could do it. We spent two nights working on it and he really didn't complain until he had to write on the cards. I think it made him feel important too that it was something that he got to do and Josh didn't get involved in. Josh did sit down with the scissors for a while but he just demolished some sheets of construction paper and wanted to move on to other things.