Lucy and I are so excited! We finally figured out how we wanted to use our glitter stamped hearts to make valentines for her class! 
We had been playing around with the hearts and some valentine pencils we had bought and finally decided on butterflies. I love how they turned out! Here’s how we made our butterflies~
Materials: heart shaped paper for wings, pencils, scissors, pipe cleaners
1. Make some glitter heart wings for your butterfly. (See our previous post for directions here.)
2. Choose the two hearts you want to use for your butterfly.
3. Overlap them by about 1 1/2 inches.
3. Holding the overlapping part together between your fingers, fold the hearts as if they were a greeting card, with glitter sides facing out. (In the photo below the glitter side of the pink heart is facing the table).
4. Cut two slits on the folded edge for the pencil.
5. Unfold the folded edge and slip the pencil through the first slit…..
6. …. and then through the second slit. The pencil is now holding your hearts together.
7. Use half of a pipe cleaner to add antennae, and you’re done!
Lucy needed quite a bit of help assembling the butterfly. We finally got a system going~ she’d hand me the two hearts and pencil for the butterfly, I’d do the cuts and insert the pencil, then she’d attach the antennae and shape them. It didn’t take too long at all!
Now we are trying to decide if we want to write our valentine messages to her friends on the back of the wings or attach some kind of little note. Hmm….. we still have a few weeks to figure it out!
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Chelsey~ Buggy and Buddy
Chelsey was previously an elementary teacher for 12 years and is now creating, playing, and learning at home with her two children. You can follow Buggy and Buddy on Twitter or Facebook by clicking on the icons below.
I love it! I recently saw another valentine idea that included a pencil, but I think this one is more creative.
This is so sweet. I am a bit envious of Lucy’s valentine-receivers!
So cute! Homemade valentines are so sweet!
I love it! Kids get so much candy, it’s great to give them something practical!
And… just gotta put this out there, your little princess is adorable! ;P
Thanks for linking up at F-it Fridays, I hope to see you back again next week!
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Thanks, Chrissy!
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I absolutely love your crafts. I will be making the butterfly pencil valentine with the little girl I babysit.
Oh, thank you so much, Priscilla! I hope you enjoy making the butterfly pencil valentine!
Those are great! And I love that they are a pencil instead of candy. Really cute! Thanks for sharing on We Made That!
What a great idea!! I love them! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
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What a cute idea. Shared on my FB page.
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I love these. They are so cute and a great Valentine’s gift that doesn’t have candy
Thanks for linking up to the Kid’s Co-op. I have featured your post this week and will be pinning it to the Co-op board on Pinterest.
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