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Candy Topiaries
Secret Valentine Charms
Bouquets of the Heart
Candy Topiaries
A great gift for any cupid.
1 to 2 hours
- Styrofoam circle (3-8 inch)
- Individually wrapped candies
- Glue
- Small stick, skewer or dowel
- Plant pot with sand
- Paint, stickers, or markers
- Decorate the pot with paints, markers
or stickers
- Fill the pot with sand (you can color
the sand with food coloring)
- Glue the candies all over the styrofoam
circle
- Push the stick into the styrofoam and
then stand it in the sand
- Give your candy topiary to someone
you love, or to someone who is missing their loved
one on Valentine's Day.
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Secret Valentine
Charms
Charm anyone with this sweet surprise.
1 to 2 hours
- Hershey's Kisses
- Plastic Wrap
- 35" strips of ribbon
- Notecard and crayons
- Place several chocolate kisses on plastic
wrap. Gather the edges of the plastic together and
tie with ribbon making a knot.
- Holding the ribbon together, measure
5 inches up from the first knot and make another knot.
Tie a big bow on top of the second knot and curl the
ends if you can.
- The opening left by the 5 inch gap,
should make a perfect hole to slide over doorknobs.You
can cut the notecard in the shape of a heart or lips
and write a caring message inside.
- You might even try a little poem, like:
- Chocolate is yummy
- Kisses are warm
- Hope you enjoy
- This Valentine's charm
- Okay. You can do better. After your
Valentine's charms are ready, secretly place
them on the doorknobs of your friends, or a lonely
neighbor. Then ring the doorbell and run!
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Bouquets of
the Heart
Beautiful, fresh flowers often don't
last. Share a bouquet that lasts all year round!
1 to 2 hours
- Construction paper
- Crayons
- Pipe cleaners
- Paint
- Sand
- Plastic plant pot
- Decorate the plastic plant pot with
bright colored paints. Use handprints, or make stencils
with sponges to create hearts, flowers, lips, and
other designs.
- Fill the pot with sand.
- Make flower shapes from different colors
of construction paper. Make two of each shape and
attach them at the bottom with a little glue or tape.
Look up flowers in a book to get ideas of different
types of flowers you can create, like roses, daisies,
tulips and daffodils.
- Use the pipe cleaners as stems.
- Inside each flower write a kind quote
from someone famous or from people in your family.
If you know the person receiving the bouquet, it is
nice to make each flower say something special about
them. The quote or kind words can be written on a
separate small piece of paper which when inserted
between the two flower shapes will become the bud.
- Arrange the flowers in the pot of sand
and deliver them to someone who is lonely, sick or
sad on Valentine's Day.
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