Is it too early for Valentine’s Day things yet? Now that Christmas is over I’ve moved on. I’m ready for another holiday and more crafting. I’m not much of a Valentine’s Day person. I mean, I love doing crafts and things for my kids. But all the lovey dovey stuff makes me kind of vomit. Sad, right? Perhaps because I don’t have a Valentine and haven’t in, I don’t even remember how long. So when I see everyone blissfully happy and buying flowers, blech. I’m not much of a flower person either. Heck, buy me 6 pounds of See’s chocolates and I’m in heaven. They cost the same amount of money, right? And aren’t chocolates much more exciting? And delicious?!
But I got off topic. Back to telling your Valentine (or kids) they rock. Aren’t these adorable? I can say that because I didn’t make this craft up. I just stole it. So it’s not like I’m bragging or anything. Where did I find it? Over on the Family Fun website. It’s the best website for kid’s crafts. I just love it. And when I saw these Valentine ipods I knew my kids would flip over them.
They are easy to make. Here are the ingredients you will need.
* You can use a box of the Valentine heart candy things. I think those are seriously gross so we used Junior Mints. (I also bought Nerds and those worked great too.)
* 2 miniature Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
* aluminum foil
* string (I used a thinker cord type string)
* colored card stock
– Cut 2 pieces of string around 14 inches long.
– Tape them onto the box of candy. I taped them to the back of the box on the first ipod but then taped them on the side of the others. It looked a little cooler on the side.
– Cover the box with colored card stock.
– Tape the other ends of the string to a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
– Cover each Reese’s in aluminum foil
– You can either print out your own “playlist” of songs and glue it to the front or you can download the one I used off of the Family Fun site.
How cool is that? And on the back I wrote “Because You Rock!” (Because I’m just clever like that.) =o)
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Super cool idea!
This is absolutely perfect for my preteen daughter! Thanks for sharing!
That is a cute idea. I bet my son would love to make that!
That’s the cutest valentine I’ve ever seen. I’m going to have to remember you. You’ve got good ideas:)
Miranda
http://www.justdrinkacoke.blogspot.com
cute idea thanks for sharing –
tina
craft-o-maniac #194
It’s ok that Valentine’s makes you vomit! Especially if you make such cute crafts!
LOVE the idea!!!
In Brazil Valentine’s Day is in June (June 12th)
but I’ll keep the idea!!! I love craft too!
Thank you for sharing! Your I-Pods are very cute!
I love this idea!
Such a great idea!!! I love it..
Lots of yummy love,
Alex aka Ma, What’s For Dinner
http://www.mawhats4dinner.com
What a cute little craft.
Thank for stopping by my blog and commenting on my Sponge Bob Cake. It was soooo fun to make
These are great! They came out so perfect looking. I love that you have already moved on to the next holiday..lol I would definitely take chocolate over flowers any day:)
Loved your comment on my blog. You are so funny. I hope your thinking of something with Nutella in it…sounds like a fun challenge, doesn’t it?..with prizes too:)
These are seriously super cute! I think I might have to start making these with my daughter to give out to her kindergarten class! 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
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What a great idea! I love FamilyFun too. Good job!! And I’m with you – give me treats any day over flowers.
That is so cute!
I featured this over at Today’s Top 20! I’d love if you stopped by!
Amanda
http://www.todaystoptwenty.blogspot.com
Wow! These turned out so well! Very fun idea.
These are adorable!!!!! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
GREAT idea!! I am not a very creative person on my own and just have to copy other people’s ideas! Love this one! Thanks for sharing!
This is really cute and a great idea! I love it!
Thanks for linking this up!
XOXO
Ok, these are absolutely too cute. Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Cute project. Glad you shared now so we have time to get the materials and make it in the next month. Family Fun has great ideas and you tweaked it and made it better. Thanks! Found you on ABC 123, Show & Tell.
Oh my gosh! What a cute idea! Your first photo is so good! I thought these were the real thing until I read your post. 🙂
Such a cute idea! I love it! I also like candy over flowers:)
Oh my gosh; LOVE IT!
Lo-ove this so much!
So creative. I love it!
Visiting from House of Hepworths.
Elizabeth, More Than A Mom
http://morethana-mom.blogspot.com
So creative and cute! Thanks for linking up, hope to see you next Monday :).
http://www.dontwasteyourhomemaking.com
These are great! I think I have decided to hand make our valentines this year.
I’d love for you to come link up at Fun For Kids Friday.
http://smilemonsters.blogspot.com/2011/01/fun-for-kids-friday.html
Jo @ SmileMonsters
That’s such a cute idea. Thanks for linking up with Fun for Kids Friday!
These are such a cute idea! Thanks for linking up to Your so Very Creative I featured you today go check it out! http://memakingdo.blogspot.com/2011/01/featuring-you-friday_14.html
Great, great idea!!! Thanks for sharing it!
I’m now your newest follower…so guess who rocks now? Yea, I ROCK! 🙂
Great idea! Thanks for joining Get your craft on Thursday at Life As Lori!
I’m having a Valentine Party that will be up up until 2-14-11. I would love for you to join me!
http://lifeaslori.blogspot.com/2011/01/valentine-party.html
Lori
So cute! Thanks for linking up to Mad Skills Monday!
This is sooo clever! I love it, I can’t wait to try this!
Amie @ http://www.kittycatsandairplanes.blogspot.com/
I made my own and they turned out so cute. I shared it in a post and linked to your post. I was inspired by yours and made a cell phone printable with the text that says “i just called 2 say i luv u”. See it here: http://www.obseussed.com/2011/01/musical-and-modern-valentine-crafts.html
So fun!! I want to do this for my boys, it’s not so girlie! 🙂 I’m featuring you tonight at Keeping it Simple!
Very cute! I with you on the sappy stuff! So, I do it for the little one…
Thanks for linking up to Making It With Allie! I can’t wait to see what you have for next week!
AllieMakes.Blogspot.com
My son and I made these for his class a few years ago. They were a HUGE hit! Thanks for linking up to Home and Family Friday.
Becca
Such a great idea! So cute. 🙂 Thanks so much for linking up to Tute {Yourself} Tuesday last week! I hope you’ll stop by again this week! 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing this at Paper Issues! We featured you today!!
http://paperissues.blogspot.com/2011/01/you-rock-valentine.html
I would love to feature this on my blog this Sunday.
I will just share a picture and then link your blog so people can go to your blog for the details.
My blog is http://cupofdelight.blogspot.com Feel free to grab a “Featured On” button and if you would rather me not share your picture, please let me know!
Thanks!!
April
Nuh, uh!?? These are SOOOO cute! 🙂 I would be in heaven if you linked up this fabulous idea with my Friday Craft Day featuring fun crafts to do with your kids. What a fabulous idea and blog…off to follow you ASAP!
http://rebeccacooper.blogspot.com/2011/02/friday-craft-day-valentine-playdough.html
I love this idea and would love for you to link it to my Virtual Valentine’s Day Party link tomorrow. One person who links up will win a $10 Visa Gift Card.
Thanks for this awesome idea!! I made some for my boys and they love it!
http://craftskeepmesane.blogspot.com/2011/02/whatever-wednesday-you-rock-valentine.html
My daughters would love these! Thanks!
These are brilliant! now bring on the chocolate 🙂
The rock, no pun intended 🙂
I remember when Design Mom did something similar – have ALWAYS thought they were cute!
Adorable! I wish you could see me smiling over your commentary! Hilarious! And I totally understand!
Adorable idea! thanks for linking at shine on fridays!
that is cool