It’s always tempting for young homeschoolers to rush to the store and buy overpriced mass-produced valentines featuring their favorite toys and cartoons. Homeschool parents should try to curb this desire by encouraging their children to make their own cards. It is a fun hands-on activity that you can do together as a family. Encourage them to use their imagination to create an interesting personalized style.

Cards are a breeze to make, even for younger homeschool students. Just take a piece of red, white, or pink construction paper and fold it in half. Then, you can decorate the card using glitter, sequins, crayons, more construction paper, and other craft materials. Cut out little hearts and decorate the front of your cards. Use fabric patterns and wrapping paper for a neat effect. Cut your card into interesting shapes like hearts or flowers or animals.

Have your children make collage valentines. Grab a stack of magazines and have them cut out clippings of words and pictures that evoke the Valentine’s Day spirit. Use stamps, stencils, and clip art to jazz things up. You can even create a little pocket in your card for a treat like a Hershey’s Kiss.

Make sure to include a Bible verse about love. This will help your students to keep their idea of love in perspective. After all, there’s a lot more to love than romance, flings, and crushes. These valentines should be about friendship and brotherly love. Check out these Bible verses about love.

Once the cards are made you can do several things to make the card-giving process fun. If you belong to a homeschool co-op, you can have all of the homeschoolers create their own valentine mailboxes out of old shoeboxes. Decorate them in a similar fashion. You can slip valentines in balloons and then inflate them. Students will have to pop their balloon in order to get their valentine.

About the Author:

Mimi Rothschild is a homeschooling parent, author, children’s rights advocate, and Founder and C.E.O. of Learning by Grace, Inc. She and her husband of almost 3 decades reside with their 8 children in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Rothschild co-founded Learning By Grace, Inc. because “our current system of education has broken its promise…” Learning By Grace, Inc. delivers Internet-based multimedia education to PreK-12 children in the United States and throughout the world.

Rothschild has authored a number of books about education published by McGraw Hill and others. Her Daily Education News Blog contains feature stories on alternatives in education.V

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