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Monster Craft | Valentine Craft: Easy Love Monster Mini Valentine Greeting Card + Links To FREE Resources

Make your own easy, cute and special "love monster" greeting card with the kids. In this activity we will transform and customized some printable small "monster theme" valentine cards that is use to hand out small valentine treats to friends or classmates into a mini valentine greeting card with fun zig zag, wavy or scallop borders all around them.  I wanted to try a different way of creating greeting cards from the usual format that is normally done and thought we'd use these cards. Get creative by gluing or drawing additional hearts and details on the card or monsters. Store card in an envelope made using any plain valentine colored paper or valentine pattern paper. GET CREATIVE WITH A MINI VALENTINE GREETING CARD + LINKS TO FREE PRINTABLES! Lauren made some "mini valentine greeting card" as part of our "monster theme" valentine activity and she gave the cards to me and her grandparents on Valentine's day. Grandma and Grandpa were happy...

Chinese New Year DIY | Animal Mask Picture Props: Printable Dog Or Puppy Mask Review + Link To FREE Printable!

Chinese New Year is here. We don't usually pay attention to this event in the past year but this year I decided to do something for it. We are not Chinese but here in the Philippines the celebration is known and accepted by the Filipino public and celebrated by Filipino Chinese. On the day of this event, when you get to go out you are reminded of its celebration in the malls, the Chinese food that is being sold, bought and shared by people, etc. 

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2018 is the "year of the dog", I thought about doing some dog masks that me and Lauren can wear in honor of the day. I used a dog mask template, Click Here To Check Out FREE Printable Dog Or Puppy Mask Templates we used. There are 3 kinds of dog templates in blank and colored, I printed the blank ones and painted it with the colors red and golden yellow and added some details inspired by this Chinese event.


Create some for the kids or allow the kids to make one for themselves. Customized a blank mask and paint or color it your way, then add details by drawing or using sequins, stickers or punch various shapes using a hole or shape puncher to decorate your masks. These masks can be worn by both adults and kids, the half mask style fits well for adults like the one I'm wearing while the whole face mask is kinda small and short when worn by an adult, they are design to fit a kid's face. 



Get creative with your own animal face mask and celebrate "Chinese New Year" featuring the animal sign of the year, wear them as picture props for a fun "Chinese New Year" photo. Try the other available printable animal mask templates, Click Here To Check Out FREE Animal Mask Templates for creating some animal mask for Chinese New Year related to the animal sign of the year!


MATERIALS TO CREATE THIS DIY & CRAFT

Shop for materials used in this craft online @ shopee.ph by clicking on the materials highlighted in BOLD below.

printer * white heavy weight paper (specialty board, vellum board or any paper of similar texture) ; * scissors * pencil * black markerpaint (acrylic paintposter  paint or tempera paint) ; * paint brushwhite glue ; sequins or tiny gem stickers ; elastic thread

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Print FREE printables for home DIYs and more! I'm using "HP Ink Tank 115" single function inkjet printer in printing templates and printables, I bought it online at shopee.ph. It is a quality and low-cost printer for home printing that uses tank for the ink. 

It needs a total of 4 ink bottles (CMYK) to refill the tank, you can save even more by refilling with universal ink. Just make sure the ink is compatible with the printer model before deciding on a purchase.

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POST UPDATED: March 2024

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