Juice Box Valentine's Day Robot

Happy Valentine's Day!

Okay not quite yet, but this is what Baby Fox is going to be giving all of his school friends. I wanted to give you plenty of time to gather the supplies so you can make the same things for your kids friends. I had been seeing all of the robot juice boxes around. You know the ones, with the juice box and then the apple sauce container upside down for the head and some sort of candy for the arms, and legs and sometimes some small raisin boxes. I decided to do a juice box robot as well, but with a small twist. So let's get started.

Materials Needed:

Any boxed juice will do, this is a pack of 8 from Walmart for $2.50

I found these small Rubik's cubes for $0.60 each at Party City, you'll need one for each juice box.

I found these slinkys for $0.40 each, also at Party City, you'll need two for each juice box.

Then the normal small size KitKats, $3.00 for a whole bag, so you get lots of left overs, win in my book.





Things not pictured: you'll need a glue gun.

Directions:

Step 1:

Put a small dab of glue, just under the tab where the box folds. You want a small dab so that the kids are able to get the slinkys off and play with them!

Obviously add one to the other side too.

Step 2:

Add another small dab of glue to the top of the box for the Rubik's Cube

Step 3:

Add the Kit Kats down for feet. I put two small dabs of glue on each Kit Kats.

We're in the home stretch!

Step 4:

I made this sign cutting out some hearts on my Cricut, but you can cut out any shape.

Glue the sign onto your Juice Box Robot. I decided to write: 

"I like you a "BOT" 

Happy Valentine's Day! 

Love, Baby Fox

Baby Fox has a relatively small class, but each one of these was about $2.00.

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Super Hero Valentine's Day Craft

Baby Fox being in preschool now has Valentine's that he has to prepare, so both Baby Fox and I hit up Pinterest and he picked out what he wanted to do. What do you think it had to do with? Of course super heroes! We used this tutorial. So here is our Super Hero Valentine.

The things you will need:

• Suckers (Found at CVS, only because we happen to be there, but you can find them anywhere)
• Stiff Felt (I got them at Michael's by the other soft felt, I sort of had to hunt around, but it really is in the same racks as the soft felt, just have to look and feel everything.)
• Print Outs, found here
• X-Large Circle Punch (At Michael's it was $16.99, but I used a 40% off coupon)
• Ribbon
• Hole Punch (not pictured)
• Glue Gun (not pictured)
• Blank piece of paper (to create a template, not pictured)
• Pencil

Step 1:

Put your sucker on your blank piece of paper, you're going to need to create a cape template

After I took the picture, I thought it would be easier to do it in the upper left corner.

Actually truth be told, after I took this picture and cut it out, it was the wrong size, so I had to do another one.

Step 2:

Cut out cape template

Note: The OCD in me really wanted to make it even, so after Baby Fox cut it out, I actually folded it in half and then trimmed the sides so that they were even.

Step 3:

Put cape template on stiff felt and cut out. I do not have a light colored fabric pencil (actually I do, but didn't want to use it and have those lines on the cape), so I just started cutting.

Step 4:

Use your hole punch to make a hole at the top of the cape

The kid loved using the whole punch.

Note: Apparently we don't own a regular hole punch, so my three ring one had to do, I would not suggest it, you can't see anything when using that thing!

Step 5: 

Get to use that circle punch I've always wanted to get, but never had a reason to get one until now. This part was Baby Fox's favorite, he kept saying "easy peasy"

Step 6:

Glue the logo onto the cape.

Step 7:

Attach the cape to the sucker and add a ribbon, so the cape doesn't fall off (wouldn't want that to happen, that would just be embarrassing)

Step 8:

Using that hole punch again, put two holes in the label

Step 9:

Add your name on the back, so people know who gave it to them and attach to the sucker

Step 10 (optional)

Add a dab of glue to attach the label. Some of our labels were twisting so I glued some of them down.

Final Step:

Repeat for the rest of the suckers

The printer I used was out of colors, so the green turned out blue and the red turned out pink. I figured a bunch of 3/4 year olds wouldn't really know the difference.

Baby Fox loved doing these and even though it took me a little longer to get them done, they were super easy! In all honesty you could have used the soft felt and no ribbon or the hard felt with ribbon, whatever your budget allows!

We also, and when I saw we, I really mean I was in charge of bringing some fruit for the kids. So I sent Mr. to the store to find a cute container and he delivered the cutest holder.

So cute right? It's a cupcake paper, although it's a little thicker than a normal wrapper, I wasn't sure if the paper would hold up against the fruit, so I cut out some wax paper to put in it.

Then I cut some strawberries in heart shapes...okay, fine I really just cut the stem off, but instead of cutting straight off I cut it off in a "V" shape. Added a few raspberries and I'm done. Super easy and cute healthy snack for the kids. Cause I figure I can balance the sugar from the suckers with just natural sugar in the fruit, haha.

Have you done any Valentine's this year? Link them below!

This is the first year I've made actual Valentine's something, previous years I've just done cards.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy day of love! I went to a MNO and am back and just wanting to wind down, so yes it's 12:30am and I'm still not in bed, should be, but I'm not. Oops, will regret it tomorrow. But I had to share the cute photos I took of the kids.

Back when I just had one kid and had ample amounts of time, I did photo shoots with Baby Fox for each holiday. This was his Valentine's day one, he was 1.5 months old.

Doing the same thing with two kids and a wiggle 5 month old? Not as easy as a 1.5 month old let me tell ya. But here they are...

And then Baby Fox was spent and didn't want anything more to do with pictures...even after several attempts at bribes.

Mr. surprised me with flowers and chocolate covered strawberries (that he dipped himself! Double broiler and all) today, cause he knew I was going to be home from work today and he couldn't surprise me.

See there are strawberries, I just at most of them before I realized I should probably take a picture.

We're getting wild tonight and ordering take out Thai food and hanging with the kids. Boring but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day Card

First, I'm so tired today, I stayed up watching the Olympics, anyone else watching them? 

As most of you already know I am a scrapbooker, yep, I'm nerdy like that. While I don't get to do it very often any more, but have the equivalent to a Micheal's in our guest room, I do enjoy any excuse to break out my stuff and create something.

I have a Cricut Expression. It looks like this:

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It's one of the most amazing machines ever invented, okay I might be exagerating, but it's a pretty cool machine. You can pretty much cut shape/lettering out and then use this:

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 If you don't know what this does, they make stickers. Yep that's right, you stick anything in there, and it puts a sticky backing on it, and viola you have a sticker.

I digress, with Valentine's THIS WEEK I thought that I would re-create some cards that I made a couple of years ago for some friends.

They looked like this:

This insides looked like this:

apparently I didn't know how to spell pretty when I made these, oops!

Everything was cut using the Cricut, how cool is that? So if you don't have one, go out and get one and start creating. I think this years card, will look really similar to those owl ones up there. Need to finish them by Wednesday so I can mail them out. Wish me luck.

Happy Monday!