Valentines day simple activity

Malo kasnim sa objavom ovog posta, ali nema veze.

duoBRO nije bio sa nama prošle sedmice (malo je skitao), pa smo iskoristili priliku da duoSIS proba nešto sama uraditi. 

A obzirom da je Valentinovo blizu, iskoristile smo srce kao motiv, ali za ovu aktivnost možete iskoristiti bilo koji oblik, ili možda najbolje slova, odnosno ime djeteta koje se igra.

Sve što je potrebno je malo deblji papir ili karton (mi smo koristile papir iz školskih blokova), zaštitna traka, tempere ili vodene bojice i kist.

Sa zaštitnom trakom napravite željeni oblik. Pustite dijete da crta, boji, šara po papiru kako god želi (zaštite sto ili drugu podlogu na kojoj se igrate). 

Nakon što se boje osuše, odlijepite traku i voila! imate poseban crtež.

Mi smo svoj iskoritili u kućnoj galeriji :)

Iako je Valnetinovo danas (zar je već pola februara iza nas?!?) dodatnu inspiraciju za neke simpatične srcolike aktivnosti možete pronaći ovdje, ovdje i ovdje :)

Challenge day

Did you do something nice for your neighbors? We did and I can't wait to tell you about it :)

We used Valentines day as an excuse to make some heart shaped cookies for our neighbors. We put them into small freezer bags, and add a tag which said "Have a Lovely day" and attached them to their doors late at night, so it would be like little surprise for them as soon as they go out. I felt really weird sneaking up everybody doors and putting these little bags on the handles, but after I finished it felt really good. I was smiling big time :-D Downside is that we didn't sign on those tags, so we are not sure that they know from whom did they get the cookies, but never mind, we had a fun making this little presents.

Here are few pics.

Here is next week challenge: Leave sticky notes with inspirational messages on them in random places, such as a grocery store shelf, the mirror in a public bathroom, or on a car's windshield. 

I think this is an easy challenge, but it can be fun. I know I would be happy to see some of this signs at some places you don't expect them to be :)

(source)

Please share your experience with the last challenge, if you have one.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Valentines Day

I can't believe I'm late to publish today's post, but yesterday was quite a busy day. I had a lot of things to do and to finish, I didn't have time to prepare the photos... 

Anyhow, Happy Valentines Day to you all, and I hope you will spend it with someone you really love and cherish.

I owe you a photo to show you our little hearts tree, so here it is:

The tree is painted on the wall. I just used that garland I showed you yesterday and made it look like it wrapped around the tree. 

For my hubby I made a cake in a shape of heart (ha ha, did you even doubt?) 
It is very goooood chocolate cake with raspberries on the top. 

I will share a recipe soon :)

Unfortunately I didn't have time to help mine little one to make a special gift for one little girl, but maybe it is better this way, cos he's to young. Next year we will make something, I promise.

However, we did make something together but, you will have to wait until next Wednesday to see what was it :) 

Have a lovely day and lovely weekend. 

I still like these hearts

I made these hearts for our Valentine's day decorations long time ago, but I still like them and I still use them.

I never thought, while I was making this, that I'm gonna share process how to make it so I don't have any step by step tutorial, but I'm lucky that my hubby likes to photograph almost everything we do, so here are some pictures.

This is really simple garland and I think there is no need for any explanations, just cut the hearts and sew them trough the middle, leaving some spaces with thread.

And here is our love tree. Isn't it pretty? :)

Tomorrow I will show you I used these hearts for this Valentines's day.

Thanks for stopping by.

Simple Valentine's decoration

I wanted to share something I made for little DuoSis, but since the Valentine’s Day is approaching, I figured out it would be better idea to post something with hearts :)

OK, here is our ‘decoration wall’ (it is our seasonal and holiday display :)) for this Valentine’s Day.

Actually I wanted to do something like this, but when I cut all the toilet paper rolls and saw how many hearts I would have to color, I gave up (if your kid likes to color or play with colors I think you can still do it. Mine is not so interested in coloring). 

Anyhow, I changed plan and used red paper and stapler to make hearts like this: 

(please ignore different light on the pictures - I couldn't finish this all at once, so that's the reason for different color :))

Cut the strips (approximately 2 cm x 20 cm but you can play with the size), fold paper strip in half, curve them little bit with fingers, and join two ends with stapler. 

And there you have it, cute little red hearts. Just put them on the wall using double sided tape, or blue tack...

Here is another idea, play stamping with your kid and make cute Valentine's postcards. 

Here is the source for the instructions if you need them.

Of course that we had to try even more shapes, so we got this:

Next Thursday I will show you something I made few years ago, but I like it so much that I'm still using it for the Valentine's decorations.

Thanks for reading.