This year, I saw the cutest idea for a valentine in a parenting magazine (I can't recall which one). I of course headed to my favorite website, Etsy.com, to see if I could find some creative person offering the idea up for sale (I've been a little busy). Found exactly what I needed at PBJandJ's shop,
http://www.etsy.com/listing/92157145/printable-valentines-cards-swedish-fish? For $5, you get the digital file and can print away.
To complete the project, here is all you need:
- White card stock to print on
- Bubble shaped bags from Michael's (about $4 for 100)
- Ribbon to top off the bags once they are filled
- 4 bags of Swedish Fish (3 if you can control yourself and not eat them during the entire project). Yep, turns out I needed4 bags.
- I also added a cute photo of P that I hole punched to each bag since he needs about a foot long piece of paper to write his name.
It took about 25 minutes to cut out the 32 fishbowls which print 4 to a page, and another 45 minutes to assemble them all. Well worth it. Highly recommend you head over to PBJand J at Etsy to get the instant download if you don't have your V-Day card idea yet. And just buy the extra bag of fish. You'll be glad you did.
Hah, we have a weird synchronization around VDay cards -- I pinned this one just this morning (with Goldfish instead of Swedish fish) but at this point I don't think I'm going to get them done in 4 days.
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