Valentine's Game - Heart Bingo

For any of you Mom's out there who are planning/helping with a Valentines party at your kid's school this is for you–Valentine Bingo Cards! I got this idea off of Kaboose.com. The only problem with their's was that they used numbers all the way to 70 and my son's Kindergarten class has only learned the numbers 1-30. This is a fun thing to do at home as a family using conversation hearts as markers! So, download the PDFs I made, print them on red card stock and have fun!

Happy Birthday Ethan!

Crafting-Hair Clips for the "Girl"

Okay, so I'm not much of a crafter--mainly because I have a hard time finishing projects. I tend to start something and get bored with it because it takes me to long to finish, and so I don't finish it. Anyhow, the other day I was at Michaels and they were having a 2 for 1 sale on ribbon. Since I already had the hair clips at home (which I bought at Sally Beauty Supply--btw, don't buy hair clips at a craft store--they're severely over priced. I think I got 100 for $6.00 at Sally's), and knew I had full confidence in myself to use a glue gun, I couldn't resist. I got the cutest ribbon and found some cute plastic embellishments to glue on top. I thought they turned pretty good. So hooray for me since I finished something! And, yes, I know there's glue sticking out all over. I should mention that the first day she wore the lady bug clips, she yanked the lady bug right off. So, I had to improvise. I used some adhesive velcro dots (the soft side only) and stuck that to the back of the plastic bug. Then, I glued the soft velcro side to the ribbon. I think the added texture helped give it added strength. Maybe someone out there knows a better way --maybe next time I'll use super glue. Anyhow, she hasn't pulled any bugs off yet. It seems to be working--and the cool thing is you can't tell there's velcro under there because I only used the soft side instead of the soft and rough together! The cost to make all three clips--$1.51 (the the 6 plastic bugs cost $1.00, the 6 clips were $0.36, and and the amount of ribbon I used was roughly $0.15. And yes, I have a ton of ribbon left (this will be fun to have for gifts and cards). I did make another clip with a cute bow on it as well. I'll have to post it later.