We don’t do a big, flowery Valentine’s Day at our house. What we do is make some time to share how much we love each other. Something I have been doing for the past few years is this fun Valentine’s Day heart activity. I cut out hearts, write a reason I love my kids and/or husband on them and tape them to their bedroom door or bathroom mirror at night. I put a new one up each night of the week leading up to Valentine’s Day. When they wake up in the morning throughout the week they are so excited to see what the newest heart says.
My kids love it so much in fact that they keep the hearts up well past Valentine’s Day and even tape them on their bedroom walls. This year I might even make it interactive and hide them around the house for a Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt! To share the love with all of our readers, we put together a free printable with hearts you can use for the special people in your lives. Download it below and have a Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️
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Couples Valentine’s Day Subscription Boxes
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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! While we don’t celebrate with anything big and showy, I do try to do a little something fun. This year calls for Homemade Valentine’s Day Hot Cocoa Bombs! Easy to make and fun to decorate, hot cocoa bombs make great homemade gifts or a fun activity for kids and adults alike. A warm sip of delicious hot cocoa in a heart shaped mug is just the kind of Valentine’s Day I am hoping for.
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To make these hot cocoa bombs Valentine’s Day themed, I used white chocolate, red food coloring and heart sprinkles.
Melt the white chocolate (white chocolate chips, candy melts, etc.). Put in a microwave safe dish and heat for 30 seconds at a time stirring between each heating. Do not overheat!
Once melted, if you want to keep them white, spread the melted white chocolate up the sides of your mold.
If you want to make them marbled with red and pink like in the picture below, put some red food coloring into the melted white chocolate and stir just a little bit so you see both white and red streaks. Then spread the mixture up the sides of the mold. Try not to keep smoothing and spreading because the more you mess with it, the more it will mix into a plain pink and you will lose the marble effect.
Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until the white chocolate has hardened and gently pop them out of the mold.
Fill one half of your bomb with hot cocoa mix, sprinkles, mini marshmallows, mini chocolate chips and whatever you would like to include.
Once the bottom half is filled, melt the edges of the top half just enough so there is some softened chocolate and stick it onto the bottom closing the bomb. (To melt the edges, I microwaved a plate until warm and placed the top-half of my bomb on the plate, edge side down. The warmth from the plate was enough to slowly melt the edges of the half circle.) Smooth any melted chocolate around the seam to make a better seal.
Finally, it’s time to decorate! I used some of the melted chocolate to stick heart sprinkles to the outside of my hot cocoa bombs. You could also LIGHTLY drizzle melted chocolate over them or even stick a candy heart on the top. Refrigerate for a few minutes to harden the edges and decorations before using or gifting!
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Yoda One For Me Star Wars T-Shirt – For that Star Wars lover in your family! Of course, anyone who has seen The Mandalorian will ❤️this shirt.
Heart Shaped Mini Waffle Maker – We love this cute way to celebrate Valentine’s Day! Not a waffle lover? Make hash browns or pressed sandwiches instead!
Heart Shaped Post-It Notes – Cover your kids’ door in reasons you love them or the bathroom mirror before your loved one gets up in the morning for a heartfelt show of love.
Off the Shoulder Heart Top – Make it a comfy evening in this cute heart top. Reviews say to size up for the over-sized fit.
Even More Valentine’s Day Gifts
Maple Bacon Jerky – We LOVE candied bacon in our house and make it often. This seems like the perfect gift for the bacon lover in your house!
A Dainty Heart Necklace is perfect for Valentine’s Day! This one is a little more unique with a geometric origami look.
Pink Button-Down Top – Could be a cute gift option, could be something cute and festive to wear to dinner. Either way this top is cute!
Cotton Candy Gift Set – I love the idea of gifting unique cotton candy flavors! Especially – Mimosa, Cinnamon Bun, PB&J, Pancakes & Maple Syrups and BACON!!
Airtight Cold Brew Iced Coffee Maker – With 2k 5-star reviews, this sleek cold brew maker is the unique gift you need for your coffee lover. Also great for loose tea!
Project 7 Champagne Dreams Brut and Rose Gourmet Gummies – Fancy gummies that taste like champagne? Yes please! Even more, these gourmet gummies taste bubbly and sweet and would be a great alternative or addition to chocolates.
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! At our house, with my craft-loving kids we love making homemade classroom valentines to hand out! This year my 8-year-old decided she wanted to hand out Harry Potter Howler Valentines, but the only Harry Potter related valentines we could find in the stores had pencils. Which, if I’m being honest, are not the most exciting. I have so many pencils from every school function over the past few years that they just keep piling up. And I don’t know about you guys, but my kids aren’t allowed to bring anything edible so candy is a no-go.
For those reasons, we decided to make some Howler letters and include Harry Potter Stickers inside. See the stickers we used at our affiliate link here: https://amzn.to/38MYERa. My daughter loves them and helped throughout the entire process! A little paper folding and tape made her valentines come to life. Below I have pictures and instructions. Hopefully, they inspire you to make your own.
Fold two corners of the red piece of paper so they come to a point in the middle like the first picture above. Then, fold each long side in towards the middle. Fold the straight end in about an inch and a half and tape in place. This step is simply to make the paper a little shorter so it is totally optional.
Next, fold the whole paper in thirds. Print the valentine template and cut evenly into 3 pieces. On each piece, cut an inch of the white paper off the top and bottom. We will be using these cut pieces for the teeth. Cut slits along each inch wide piece making sure not to cut all the way through. Fold the teeth along the edge of your cuts like the picture above on the right.
Finally, assemble your valentines. I used tape because it is so much faster than waiting for glue to dry, but you could use that too. Tape the valentine template to the folded red paper, on the side with all the paper folds. After that, tape the teeth on the top and bottom and then use a pencil to curl the edges of the top corners of the valentine. Lastly, tape the Harry Potter stickers inside, have your child sign their name and voila you have your own Harry Potter Howler Valentines!
I used heart stickers to keep the valentines closed, but wouldn’t these faux wax seals be so cute! You could also add a little giveaway other than stickers, just get creative. I found some cute bracelets, broom pens, or temporary tattoos as options (affiliate links). Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
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