Valentine's Fun and Thrifting Thursdays

I know I do not have a theme to my posts, but I want to make Thrifting Thursdays a definite keeper. I LOVE thrifting, which I have mentioned before. I just went recently and actually didn't buy any clothes for myself-which is rare! My friend Annie and I are really close to getting our Etsy vintage shop in gear, so I didn't want to overload myself with new things to put on the website. But it will be up soon!

I snagged this lamp with a little help from my youngest, B.

It is quite large, but in such good shape! B totally saw it from a mile away and said we had to get this one. It was $4.50 at Salvation Army.

After putting all my Christmas stuff away, I realized that I really do not have any Valentine's Day decorations. So I thought it was high time to make some of our own! My friend Karen and her daughter came over to do some easy and fun crafts with my boys and I. Well, it ended up being that the moms were the ones chatting it up and doing crafts while the kids played. But it was well worth it, we had a lot of fun and got some cute stuff made.

We really only used construction paper, tape, glue stick, hot glue gun, string, pencils, markers, crayons, and popsicle sticks-things most of us have around our house. Here is how they turned out!

X's and O's on a string

I had the boys trace X and O cookie cutters and decorate them how they want. They decided to put funny faces on them. I then cut them out and taped them to a long string and hung them on the window.

 Heart Guys

These are Heart Guys (or so L and B call them)! I drew a heart on a piece of construction paper and had the boys draw faces on them. Then I cut them out and taped string to them for legs and arms and hung them from the window.

The ones below I added some bouncy arms and stringy legs.

Valentine's On A Stick

 These are the same as my Christmas post. This time we used Valentine's coloring pages from the library and added them to cardboard and card stock paper and hot glued them to the sticks.

Heart Hands

These turned out so cute! I saw them in a magazine from the library. You fold a piece of construction paper in half and put one of the child's hands so the thumb is on the fold. Then trace their hand and let them, or you, cut the hands out a decorate. Then cut a heart out and glue into the center.

I really was blank on ideas for Valentine's Day crafts until I went to the library. Most of the books they had on crafts for v-day were really old and geared more toward older kids. Around holidays or a time of year when I need some new recipe ideas, I like to go thru the past few years of periodicals and snag the month I am looking for. That is where I got most of these ideas. It is way better than buying a magazine and never using it again or having it sit around until next year.

Let me know if you guys make any of these crafts. And I love comments so leave me some, even if it is just a hello!