Another St. Patrick's Day Gift for Classmates

Another great post to say that you have to get creative with post-holiday clearance because you can use it for upcoming holidays!

We put together my son's St. Patrick's Day "gift" for his classmates. After Valentines Day, I picked up bags of helicopters on clearance at Target.

For his classmates, I typed up this saying: "I am "lucky" to spin around third grade with you! Happy St. Patrick's Day! From: Landen"

We cut them out and stapled them onto green paper. Then we took the strips of paper and taped them onto the helicopters! So easy, very inexpensive and yet so cute!

St. Patty's Day Gift for Child's Classmates

My kids love handing out little "gifts" to their classmates when a holiday rolls around. We also like to treat the teachers too (you can check out this recent blog post for an idea for the teachers in your life). Anyway, after Valentine's Day, I was browsing all the stores for their clearance "valentine" stuff (as I have posted before here, you have to be creative and you can usually find really good deals on past "holiday" stuff and make it fit for a holiday coming up) and found lots of interesting things at Target. One of them was a bag of bouncy balls. This reminded me of something I received for Christmas. I got this "ball ornament" from my mother-in-law that came with this little saying:

A Friendship Ball

A ball is a circle,
no beginning, no end.
It keeps us together like our
circle of friends.
But the treasure inside
for you to see
is the treasure of friendship
you've granted to me.
Today I pass the friendship ball
to you.
Pass it on to someone else
who is a friend to you.

This is what my mother-in-law gave me at Christmas.

The valentine bouncy balls on clearance.

So, of course I bought bags of the bouncy balls at 50% off. I changed the little poem so it would be more fitting for St. Patty's Day. My St. Patty's Day poem is as follows:

A Lucky Friendship Ball:

A ball is a circle
no beginning, no end.
It keeps us together like our
circle of friends.
But the treasure inside
for you to see
is the treasure of friendship
you have granted to me.
I am lucky to pass the friendship
ball to you.
Pass it on to someone
who is a friend to you too!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!


I printed off these poems and cut around them with decorative scissors and then I glued them onto some green scrapbook paper. I hot glued the ball to the paper (they will easily come off ). I think I am going to take a green highlighter and go over the word "lucky" with it.

Valentines for Classmates

I thought this would make a cute and different Valentines card for my kid's to hand out to their classmates and the best part is that it didn't cost that much!!!

I think that owls are really cute and there is so much out there right now with the owl motif. When I saw these owl bookmark kits at Halloween time at Target, I thought they were the cutest things. I was not going to pay the $5.00 for them, but knew they would be the first thing I snatched up when all the Halloween merchandise went on clearance (if I was lucky enough to get some before they were gone). I was able to grab enough boxes at 90% off after Halloween for my kids to hand out to their classmates!!!!! I didn't know which holiday I would use them for, but in a previous post, you will see that I decided to do the box of crayons for Christmas. So, the bookmarks are perfect for Valentines Day. Previously, I had purchased "library cards" from one of my favorite crafty sites theplaidbarn.com. I thought these library cards would go perfect with the bookmarks!!!!! Brilliant! So, the kids and I sat down and we started putting the bookmarks together. I loved this because it was fun, family time spent together. After we got them done, we had to make them look more "Valentiney" so I cut out little hearts from red contact paper and we stuck them on the owls. Another thing we did was add little plastic flowers (that I also got on theplaidbarn.com) for the girls in each class. This made them look a little more "festive" for the Valentine holiday.
On the library cards, I wrote my child's name under the "author" part and then under "title", I wrote "Happy Valentines Day!" Then, under "date checked out", I wrote "2-14-13". On the main lines of the cards, I wrote this: "Hooty Hoot! You are so wise Valentine!"

We glued foam hearts onto the bottom of the card as well to make them that much more festive. My first grader was getting pretty tired, so I wrote most of hers out, but my third grade son should be able to write all of his (we can spread them out over time so he can do a few each night).

I love homemade gifts so much more then store bought and this little project is something the kids can use and it is not candy! ;0)

These are the kits from Target (Halloween)

These are the finished Valentines. We will put the bookmark on the card. You can't really see it, but one has the pink flower on the head and they both have a red heart by their left wing. I think they turned out cute!!!




Happy Valentine's Crafting!!!!
 

Easy St. Patrick's Day Gifts for Classmates

I came up with a fun, easy and inexpensive little treat for my daughter and son to hand out to their classmates at school for St. Patrick's Day. I bought 2 big boxes of Fruit Roll Ups (Fruit by the Foot). Their package was green so it was perfect! I typed up a message (in green ink) that read: "I am LUCKY to roll with you!" "Happy St. Patrick's Day!"

I cut out the messages, rolled them around the Fruit Roll Ups and secured with tape!