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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...
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Paper Lollipop Candy

9-21-2016 --  In this post, I will be sharing a "lollipop candy" craft idea and how I did and taught it to my child. This was a  craft project that Lauren did in Brightly Beaming Resources' (Step 3: Sound of the Week) homeschool curriculum for the "y" sound as in "candy". This is the most fun part of the curriculum, making the art projects. In this step, I have come up with own ideas and structures for most of Lauren's art & craft projects or activities. Lauren is going to make a "candy" craft, I thought about doing lollipop candies and come up with this easy and fun lollipop candy craft made out of colorful construction papers, craft stick, or any other stick.


 This craft involves gluing & decorating. Every kid is different so when choosing to do or follow a craft, it is best to adapt the project to your kid's situation or abilities also making sure that it helps them learn and that the process is done best that benefits them.

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* construction papers 
* scotch tape
* scissors 
* plain or colored craft stick 
* disposable chopstick or barbecue stick 
* ruler
* glue 
* hole or shape puncher

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 First, prepare and get all the materials ready so everything is organized and ready to be used when it's time to do the whole craft or project. When preparing the materials, it is best to involve the kids, show them how the things are done if they cannot do it themselves. 

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READY FOR KID BEFORE STARTING ACTIVITY ALONG WITH OTHER MATERIALS: 
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 * cut candy patterns 

 * cut accessories patterns

 * hole punched papers (for lollipop sprinkles)

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DONE BY ADULT OR PARENT:
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* Lollipop Candies: Take different construction papers with colors chosen by child. Draw different shapes of lollipop candies on it. Let child cut patterns.

* Lollipop Accessories: Depending on what shape or kind of lollipop candy your child will make, take construction papers with colors chosen by child and draw accessories patterns (such as stars, swirls, etc.) on it. Let child cut patterns. 

* Lollipop Sticks: You can leave sticks plain or you may wrap whole plain stick with paper or accessorize it with strips of papers glued around it in a slant. Take construction papers with colors chosen by child, draw thin vertical lines on paper using ruler. Let child cut patterns. 

* Lollipop Sprinkles: Punched different colors of construction papers chosen by child using a hole or shape puncher, or you may cut tiny bits of papers as sprinkles for your lollipop.

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DONE BY CHILD:
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* cut lollipop patterns

* cut accessory patterns

* glue lollipop pieces together

* decorate lollipop

Once, all the materials are ready and prepared, it's now time to work on completing the  "paper lollipop candy" project.

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STEPS IN DOING THIS LOLLIPOP CANDY CRAFT:
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1. First, let child wrap strips of paper around craft sticks, if you have chosen to do this method. If not, proceed to the next step. 


2. Next, let child tape sticks to back of lollipop patterns.


3. Next, let child decorate lollipop candy using paper sprinkles or any accessory of choice.

3. And there you go, the "paper lollipop candies" are DONE. They came out nice and fun to look at. 


If you got any reactions and thoughts regarding this craft or topic, feel free to interact and write it down in the comment box below. I'd be happy to hear from you. Thank you so much for viewing and reading.

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