Valentines Day – And Then Home http://www.andthenhome.com/ Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:48:44 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.1 https://www.andthenhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cropped-Watermark-Logo-1-75x75.jpg Valentines Day – And Then Home http://www.andthenhome.com/ 32 32 Fun and Easy DIY Valentine’s Day Home Decorations https://www.andthenhome.com/fun-and-easy-diy-valentines-day-home-decorations/ Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:39:40 +0000 https://www.andthenhome.com/?p=4086 Valentine’s Day is a fun occasion to bring out a little festive decor.  Even if you only add a little red or pink decor for a couple days, it’s fun to add those special pieces.  Not sure what to add?  This week we wanted to bring you some ideas on what you can do yourself to create that perfect Valentine’s accent in your home!  Check out our Fun and Easy DIY Valentine’s Day  Home Decorations. We have gathered the best Valentine’s Day projects and crafts here for you to see.  They’re easy and they all look amazing, so no matter which one (or two!) you pick your home will look Valentine’s ready!  Get the kids involved in some of these crafts, make a gift for a spouse or gift your front door a beautiful red hanger for some lovely curb appeal!   Let’s get started! Valentine’s Burlap Heart Wreath with Couple’s Monogram – Where The Smiles Have Been Super-Easy DIY Pom Pom Garland – Sustain My Craft Habit Sweet Valentine Love Table Runner – Champagne and Sugarplums 5-Minute Valentine Garland – Money Wise Moms DIY Cupid’s Arrow Valentine Decor Craft – Thrifty Jinxy Valentine’s Tissue Box Covers – Super Mom, No Cape Fun and Easy DIY Valentine’s Day Home Decorations DIY Valentine’s Day Wreath Craft with Fun Fur and LOVE Letters! – Fun Learning Life Easy Yarn and Felt Valentine’s Wreath – Champagne and Sugarplums How to Make Pine Cone Roses – Sustain My Craft Habit DIY Valentines Decorations for Your Home – Cookies, Coffee and Crafts Free Valentines Day Printable – The Inspiration Edit Easy DIY Curtain Ties/Valentine’s Day Decor – A Butterfly House Deal Up This Heart Cards Garland – Champagne and Sugarplums Cross-Stitch Wood Heart Sign – Dukes & Duchesses We hope this helped give you some Valentine’s Day inspiration! What are you planning on decorating with this Valentine’s Day?

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]]> Valentine’s Day is a fun occasion to bring out a little festive decor.  Even if you only add a little red or pink decor for a couple days, it’s fun to add those special pieces.  Not sure what to add?  This week we wanted to bring you some ideas on what you can do yourself to create that perfect Valentine’s accent in your home!  Check out our Fun and Easy DIY Valentine’s Day  Home Decorations.

Fun and Easy DIY Valentine's Day Home Decorations

We have gathered the best Valentine’s Day projects and crafts here for you to see.  They’re easy and they all look amazing, so no matter which one (or two!) you pick your home will look Valentine’s ready!  Get the kids involved in some of these crafts, make a gift for a spouse or gift your front door a beautiful red hanger for some lovely curb appeal!  

Let’s get started!

Valentine’s Burlap Heart Wreath with Couple’s Monogram – Where The Smiles Have Been

Photo By: Where The Smiles Have Been

Super-Easy DIY Pom Pom Garland – Sustain My Craft Habit

Photo By: Sustain My Craft Habit

Sweet Valentine Love Table Runner – Champagne and Sugarplums

Photo By: Champagne and Sugarplums

5-Minute Valentine Garland – Money Wise Moms

Photo By: Money Wise Moms

DIY Cupid’s Arrow Valentine Decor Craft – Thrifty Jinxy

Photo By: Thrifty Jinxy

Valentine’s Tissue Box Covers – Super Mom, No Cape

Photo By: Super Mom, No Cape

Fun and Easy DIY Valentine’s Day Home Decorations

DIY Valentine’s Day Wreath Craft with Fun Fur and LOVE Letters! – Fun Learning Life

Photo By: Fun Learning Life

Easy Yarn and Felt Valentine’s Wreath – Champagne and Sugarplums

Photo By: Champagne and Sugarplums

How to Make Pine Cone Roses – Sustain My Craft Habit

Photo By: Sustain My Craft Habit

DIY Valentines Decorations for Your Home – Cookies, Coffee and Crafts

Photo By: Cookies, Coffee and Crafts

Free Valentines Day Printable – The Inspiration Edit

Photo By: The Inspiration Edit

Easy DIY Curtain Ties/Valentine’s Day Decor – A Butterfly House

Photo By: A Butterfly House

Deal Up This Heart Cards Garland – Champagne and Sugarplums

Photo by: Champagne and Sugarplums

Cross-Stitch Wood Heart Sign – Dukes & Duchesses

Photo By: Dukes & Duchesses

We hope this helped give you some Valentine’s Day inspiration! What are you planning on decorating with this Valentine’s Day?

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]]> 15 Creative Valentine’s Kids Crafts https://www.andthenhome.com/15-creative-valentines-kids-crafts/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 12:30:13 +0000 https://www.andthenhome.com/?p=2940 Valentine’s Day has crept on me again this year but the girls and I still managed to fit in a few Valentine’s Crafts to keep us (them) busy.  While looking for inspiration, I managed to find a lot of crafts that were really cute, easy and inexpensive to make.  Today I’m sharing a couple of my favourites.  Take a look at my top 15 Creative Valentine’s Kids Crafts. Happy Valentine’s Day! This craft is quick and easy, these googles also create hours of fun.  Take a look at Make and Take’s – Pipe Cleaner Heart-Shaped *LOVE* Goggles Just looking at this makes me smile, fun, cute and easy.  This craft is a blast to make!  Crafty Morning – Paper Plate Heart Cow   Christina made these very cute yarn wrapped hearts with her kids and shared them.  Easy to make and beautiful when finished. 2 Little Hooligans – Valentine’s Day Crafts with the Kids   Cute and easy to make the kids will love to see this card garland come together.  Have them pick out all of the heart cards and tie on their favourite valentines ribbon.  Champagne and Sugarplums – Deal Up this Heart Cards Garland Lessons, gestures, 14 acts of kindness.  This craft incorporates a fun task everyday until Valentine’s, and includes a free printable.  Make and Takes – Counting Down to Valentines, Free Printable  Here’s one the older kids can do all by themselves.  Put the materials out and have them create!  Provide a bunch of different beads so they can make many hearts.  They can work as Valentines too.  Activity Village – Beaded Ornament   Show the animals some love this Valentine’s and get the kids involved, they will love seeing the birds using their bird seed hearts.  Wine and Glue – Love Birds: Valentine’s Day Bird Feeders   These little guys are super cute.  This tutorial shows how to make the cute monster, and how to make the pom-pom!  Check them out.  Practically Functional – How to Make Pom-Pom Monsters Easy to make and the kids love these melted crayons.  The Nerds Wife show you how to make these fun melty crayons and also give you some printable valentines to stick them to! The Nerd’s Wife – Handmade Valentines: Heart Shaped Crayons Add a cute heart shaped tag and fill them with colourful candy and you’ve got an easy and inexpensive valentine.  Your kids will love to choose different colours and candies for each of their friends.  And Then Home – DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars  Your kids will love to paint their own coasters for Valentines.  Once the coasters are cut, they can paint any design they’d like, keep them for use in your home, or have them paint their friends initials and give’em away!  A Bubbly Life – DIY Heart Coasters – Valentine’s Day & Wedding Favors! 15 Creative Valentine’s Kids Crafts Here’s a fun one!  Once the tissue paper squares have been cut this craft is quite simple.  They look very pretty hanging in the window too!  First Palette – Tissue Paper Suncatchers  Perfect for the kids to make a parent…because then we get to eat the brownies too! Putting the ingredients into the bottle is not only fun for the kids, but they are learning too, winning combo if you ask me.  Check out this cute Valentine.  Champagne and Sugarplums – Brownie in a Bottle – A Sweet Treat for Valentine’s and More Who doesn’t love a craft with googly eyes?  This card will have your kids giggling, they’ll love sticking the eyes on the card and giving it to their Valentine.  Kendall-Jackson – DIY “I only have eyes for you” Valentine Card  You likely have all the materials needed to make this one.  Fuzzy Mama gives you the step by step instructions with pictures and examples on how these stamps can be used.  Fuzzy Mama – DIY Valentine Stamp  I hope you liked the list and you found a craft or two for you and the kids to make this Valentine’s Day!  Happy Crafting!   

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]]> Valentine’s Day has crept on me again this year but the girls and I still managed to fit in a few Valentine’s Crafts to keep us (them) busy.  While looking for inspiration, I managed to find a lot of crafts that were really cute, easy and inexpensive to make.  Today I’m sharing a couple of my favourites.  Take a look at my top 15 Creative Valentine’s Kids Crafts.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

This craft is quick and easy, these googles also create hours of fun.  Take a look at Make and Take’s – Pipe Cleaner Heart-Shaped *LOVE* Goggles

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Make and Take – Pipe Cleaner Heart Shaped “LOVE” Goggles

Just looking at this makes me smile, fun, cute and easy.  This craft is a blast to make!  Crafty Morning – Paper Plate Heart Cow  

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Crafty Morning – Paper Plate Heart Cow

Christina made these very cute yarn wrapped hearts with her kids and shared them.  Easy to make and beautiful when finished. 2 Little Hooligans – Valentine’s Day Crafts with the Kids  

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2 Little Hooligans – Valentine’s Day

Cute and easy to make the kids will love to see this card garland come together.  Have them pick out all of the heart cards and tie on their favourite valentines ribbon.  Champagne and Sugarplums – Deal Up this Heart Cards Garland

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Champagne and Sugarplums – Heart Cards Garland

Lessons, gestures, 14 acts of kindness.  This craft incorporates a fun task everyday until Valentine’s, and includes a free printable.  Make and Takes – Counting Down to Valentines, Free Printable 

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Make and Take – Counting Down to Valentines, Free Printable

Here’s one the older kids can do all by themselves.  Put the materials out and have them create!  Provide a bunch of different beads so they can make many hearts.  They can work as Valentines too.  Activity Village – Beaded Ornament  
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Show the animals some love this Valentine’s and get the kids involved, they will love seeing the birds using their bird seed hearts.  Wine and Glue – Love Birds: Valentine’s Day Bird Feeders  

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Wine and Glue – Valentine’s Day Birdfeeders

These little guys are super cute.  This tutorial shows how to make the cute monster, and how to make the pom-pom!  Check them out.  Practically Functional – How to Make Pom-Pom Monsters

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Practically Functional – How to Make Valentine’s Day Pom-Pom Monsters

Easy to make and the kids love these melted crayons.  The Nerds Wife show you how to make these fun melty crayons and also give you some printable valentines to stick them to! The Nerd’s Wife – Handmade Valentines: Heart Shaped Crayons

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The Nerd’s Wife – Crayon Hearts

Add a cute heart shaped tag and fill them with colourful candy and you’ve got an easy and inexpensive valentine.  Your kids will love to choose different colours and candies for each of their friends.  And Then Home – DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars 

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And Then Home – DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars

Your kids will love to paint their own coasters for Valentines.  Once the coasters are cut, they can paint any design they’d like, keep them for use in your home, or have them paint their friends initials and give’em away!  A Bubbly Life – DIY Heart Coasters – Valentine’s Day & Wedding Favors!

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A Bubbly Life – Heart Coasters

15 Creative Valentine’s Kids Crafts

Here’s a fun one!  Once the tissue paper squares have been cut this craft is quite simple.  They look very pretty hanging in the window too!  First Palette – Tissue Paper Suncatchers 

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First Palette – Tissue Paper Suncatchers

Perfect for the kids to make a parent…because then we get to eat the brownies too! Putting the ingredients into the bottle is not only fun for the kids, but they are learning too, winning combo if you ask me.  Check out this cute Valentine.  Champagne and Sugarplums – Brownie in a Bottle – A Sweet Treat for Valentine’s and More

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Champagne and Sugarplums – Brownie in a Bottle

Who doesn’t love a craft with googly eyes?  This card will have your kids giggling, they’ll love sticking the eyes on the card and giving it to their Valentine.  Kendall-Jackson – DIY “I only have eyes for you” Valentine Card 

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Kendall-Jackson – DIY “I only have eyes for you” Valentine Card

You likely have all the materials needed to make this one.  Fuzzy Mama gives you the step by step instructions with pictures and examples on how these stamps can be used.  Fuzzy Mama – DIY Valentine Stamp 

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Fuzzy Mama – DIY Valentine Stamp

I hope you liked the list and you found a craft or two for you and the kids to make this Valentine’s Day! 
Happy Crafting! 
 

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]]> DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars https://www.andthenhome.com/diy-mini-candy-favour-jars/ Fri, 09 Feb 2018 12:30:01 +0000 https://www.andthenhome.com/?p=2928 I love candy and who doesn’t?  I also love showers – I’m talking bridal showers, baby showers or any similar occasion!  While hosting and organizing is not my favourite, I definitely like to dive into a good theme.  From rustic to cartoons and don’t forget colours, creating the perfect shower can be a lot of fun.  Today’s post brings us to one of the tougher shower decisions – the favour.  What do you give to people to thank them for coming to such an important event?  Check out our DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars and look no further! Most guests will agree that they would prefer something consumable for a favour.  Something they don’t have to keep on the shelf for many years, especially since nine times out of ten it won’t match their decor!  This is why giving candy is such a popular idea.  It can easily fit any theme, it’s inexpensive and guests will love that they don’t have to keep it forever. These Mini Candy Favour Jars are great for any favour occasion.  Use them for showers, as wedding favours OR even a Valentine’s Day gift.  All you need are some small jelly candies, washi tape and mini bottles.  I was able to get the washi tape and bottles from the local dollar store and the candies from the bulk store. Let’s see how to put these delicious little gifts together… DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars What you’ll need; Mini bottles Washi tape (or any other decoration) Small candies (I recommend using small jelly candies) What you’ll need to do; Basically all you need to do is open up your jar, fill it with the candy, close the lid and decorate as you desire.  That’s it!!  So simple, inexpensive and yet thoughtful and beautiful!  What’s not to love?? Hope you loved these DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars and are able to use them in an upcoming event!!  If you’re not convinced this is the best idea for your event, check out Victoria’s DIY Favour Boxes Using Scrapbook Paper and see how she made a chocolate bar look fantastic for her chic wedding!  Planning a bridal shower?  Certainly check out this Easy Breezy Garland.    *Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links.  There may be a small commission made by our recommendations, and/or link to products mentioned or services on this website.  Any potential purchase you make will help us continue to bring you amazing content, step-by-steps and product reviews.

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]]> I love candy and who doesn’t?  I also love showers – I’m talking bridal showers, baby showers or any similar occasion!  While hosting and organizing is not my favourite, I definitely like to dive into a good theme.  From rustic to cartoons and don’t forget colours, creating the perfect shower can be a lot of fun.  Today’s post brings us to one of the tougher shower decisions – the favour.  What do you give to people to thank them for coming to such an important event?  Check out our DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars and look no further!
DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars
Most guests will agree that they would prefer something consumable for a favour.  Something they don’t have to keep on the shelf for many years, especially since nine times out of ten it won’t match their decor!  This is why giving candy is such a popular idea.  It can easily fit any theme, it’s inexpensive and guests will love that they don’t have to keep it forever.
These Mini Candy Favour Jars are great for any favour occasion.  Use them for showers, as wedding favours OR even a Valentine’s Day gift.  All you need are some small jelly candies, washi tape and mini bottles.  I was able to get the washi tape and bottles from the local dollar store and the candies from the bulk store.
DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars
Let’s see how to put these delicious little gifts together…

DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars

What you’ll need;
  • Mini bottles
  • Washi tape (or any other decoration)
  • Small candies (I recommend using small jelly candies)
What you’ll need to do;
Basically all you need to do is open up your jar, fill it with the candy, close the lid and decorate as you desire.  That’s it!!  So simple, inexpensive and yet thoughtful and beautiful!  What’s not to love??
DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars
DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars
DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars
Hope you loved these DIY Mini Candy Favour Jars and are able to use them in an upcoming event!!  If you’re not convinced this is the best idea for your event, check out Victoria’s DIY Favour Boxes Using Scrapbook Paper and see how she made a chocolate bar look fantastic for her chic wedding!  Planning a bridal shower?  Certainly check out this Easy Breezy Garland. 
 
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