I made some salt dough (play dough) for my first grade class that I go into. I dyed it red and I rolled it out. Using a cookie cutter I cut it into heart shapes. I put one heart into a snack size baggie (there was room that I could have put two in each bag) and stapled a Valentine's Topper over the zipper of the bag:
My youngest gave out hugs and kisses:
If you have the mini zip top bags that you can find in the craft store you can use those. You can use those two ways: 1- fill with hugs and kisses OR 2- fill with kisses and attach to a hugs barrel drink (like above). These are cute, but I didn't have enough left for the whole class. I made these the same way as the dough.
Last year owls were all the range and I incorporated them into my son's Valentine's. His class didn't really do an exchange, but we made some anyway. I had come across a great deal on scented pencils (a bucket of them) over the summer and bought them. My kids loved them so I knew the 5th graders would too. I used my cricut to cut out owl shapes (you could use clip art). I had two ideas:
We ended up using the first one (click on the pictures to enlarge). I cut out the owls and then printed the saying on labels and stuck them on the back. We taped on the pencil towards the bottom - we wanted it to be like a branch. The second idea was shaped more like a traditional valentine with the saying at the top and a branch at the bottom. I cut slits into the paper to slide the pencil in on the branch. Here is a close up of the saying - he didn't want it lovey dovey, he is a 10 year old boy (you could use valentine instead of friend, but he chose friend):
If you still need ideas check out this post for fun saying/tags or the post from the year before here. You can view instructions/download tags for:
You could also use mini flashlights or glow sticks for this tag.
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