Walker's Valentines 2013

Last year was Walker's first year in preschool and I was so excited when Valentine's Day rolled around and I was able to flex my creative muscles and come up with an unique idea his two year old peers would surely remember forever! :)  Thanks to Pinterest, I was able to find lots of great ideas and ended up settling on these cute little glow sticks. 

This year I knew I had to step it up.  I had set the bar for myself! I knew early on exactly what I wanted to do - another great Pinterest find! I decided to create these fun little pails filled with sour gummy worms.  I looked everywhere for these little pails.  I visited all the local craft stores and finally found ONE pail at Michael's.  When I saw that it was almost $3 for ONE pail, I realized I needed a backup plan! Back to Pinterest I went but unfortunately I did not find anything that I liked as much as the Hooked on You pails.  That's when I remembered my trip to Target a couple of weeks prior.  I had seen the cutest little wooden instruments in the dollar section and thought to myself that they sure would make a cute present.  It just so happened that we had gotten the boys pictures taken for Valentine's Day and Walker's valentines cards had his picture along with the quote, "All you need is LOVE". Ding, ding, ding!!! All you need is Love by The Beatles! It was a light bulb moment I tell ya!

I went to Target the next day and the instruments were all gone.  I called my husband who was working out of town and asked him to find the nearest Target and make his way there after work.  I was a Momma on a mission! I drove 30 minutes to another Target and hit the jackpot! They had TONS of the instruments.  I was so excited that I ended up buying 15 for Walker's class valentines and 15 for his teachers to use in the classroom. 

The instruments came in clear bags and were labeled, which I really liked, and I considered leaving them like that and tying his valentine onto them that way but then they would not all be uniform in size.  I decided to take them all out of their original bag, put them in cellophane bags and tie his valentine onto them that way.  Here is the final product...

 

I LOVE them! I thought they turned out so stinkin' cute and I was so proud that this was an idea that I thought of myself - no Pinterest required ;)  Now that's not to say that Pinterest will not be consulted next Valentine's Day and the next and the next.  :)  

 

What do YOU think about these musical Valentines?