January 16, 2011

::craft:: rainy day valentine fun

emma started by decorating the window with her valentine's day gel clings.
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while she did that, i got the stuff together to make these...valentine lollipop flowers for emma's preschool class.
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this is what you will need: a bag of tootsie roll pops, 5 cupcake liners per sucker, green pipe cleaners, wire, and green painting tape (i found it at home depot), and a card for each lollipop.
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to start, fold a cupcake liner in half and punch a hole in the center. you will need four of these per lollipop.
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next, fold a cupcake liner in half, but this time, punch the hole half way off of the paper.
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this way, when you open it, you have one single hole in the middle of the cupcake liner. you will need one of these per lollipop.
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this is what you should end up with...
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add the folded liners to the lollipop stick...
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overlapping one quarter as you add each one.
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keep going... once you have added all four of the folded cupcake liners, finish by adding the unfolded cupcake liner to the back.
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you could always enlist a sweet helper to help out...
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to make the leaves, sandwich a piece of wire in between two pieces of the green tape.
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next, cut out a leaf shape.
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after that, i added one pipe cleaner (that i had folded in half ) and one green leaf to each sucker. just twist to attach them both. the pipe cleaner served as our tag holder.
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that's it...you can't beat spring flowers on a cold and wet wintry day! If you want something a little less involved, you could try the butterfly lollipop valentine's that we made last year.
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Inspired by and adapted from: Skip to my Lou!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

super cute. I love them! i'm lucky if i can get my kids to bring a dollar store pencil for parties! ha!

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