This one goes out to all the parents who are craftastically challenged. How to survive the creation of mass quantities of preschool Valentines.

Yeah, if you’re reading this now you’re cutting it a little close for Valentine’s Day 2007. And that means you’re my kind of person!

With 2 kids in preschool, and one in daycare (who must do EVERY-THING his big brothers do) we needed to make about 90 valentine’s cards this year. I’ve got nothing against the $1 packs of cards from Target, but I was too lazy to go get any.

So instead I set up Cupid’s Lil Sweatshop.

I found a stack of red construction paper and cut it into fourths. I used a Sharpie and in the corner wrote each kid’s name* inside a heart.

I handed Mike and Robbie a stack of fancy, new stickers and told them that they could use 2 per card. And I sat with Chip and handed him stickers to apply. When one card was done, it went into the pile.

So efficient. So full of love and the spirit of Valentine’s Day.

So done!

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(* Um, yeah, those are my kids’ real names, and that’s my handwriting… Right.)


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5 responses to “This one goes out to all the parents who are craftastically challenged. How to survive the creation of mass quantities of preschool Valentines.”

  1. MammaLoves Avatar

    Great classic TV reference though…

  2. Plain Jane Mom Avatar

    Hot damn, Mama, you ROCK!

    “We come from France!”

  3. Jennifer Avatar

    You should see the mountain of chocolate Rugrat got. I’m…er..she’s gonna have chocolate forever!

  4. Oh, The Joys Avatar

    You and I are cut from similar cloth. This is how we did it – add a “scribble with crayon on all these pieces of paper first” to the sweatshop line and also add that I am too cheap to buy anything.

  5. crunchy carpets Avatar

    That is better than I did. For 40 kids I bought index cards and bulk hershey kisses….

    I wrote To whoever on them and Adam glued the kisses to the cards.

    Done.

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