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February 6, 2013

Homemade Valentines for Kids: Car Painting

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My kids love making homemade valentines and love painting with cars so it’s easy to see why these “You’re a wheel-y great friend!” valentines are such a hit!  We first made them when my son was two for all of his friends and since then we’ve made them as valentines, thank you cards, birthday cards…pretty much anything you can think of!

Car Painted You're a Wheel-y Great Friend Homemade Valentines for KidsMy three year old is very excited to get to make valentines to pass out to her friends this year and these are perfect!  So today I set up an invitation to play and paint for her and her brother.

Car Painting for Kids: Homemade Valentines

I crumpled up some of our brown craft paper to look like “hills and valleys” and laid it out on our chalkboard table.  I then set some of the red cards on top of it.

Valentine's Day Car PaintingI put a pile of “mud” on a small plate and got out a couple of cars to paint with.

Car Painted Homemade Valentines for Kids

Then they got to work! They drove and painted and had a lot of fun driving through the paint and all over the paper.

Homemade Valentines for Kids Car PaintingOnce the paint dried we taped a toy car onto the card and wrote, “You’re a wheel-y great friend!”

Super easy and fun!  What types of cards and valentines do your kids like to make?

If you have a car lover Toddler Approved also shared a cute car themed valentine this week–check it out!

Here’s some more of the valentines my kids have done:

I’m Stuck on You! Heart Window Clings Free Printable Valentine

Homemade Super Hero and Hershey Kiss Ring Kids Valentines

Linking to:

After School Link Up at Parent Teach Play

About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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Comments

  1. Jessica @ Play Trains! says

    February 7, 2013 at 1:20 am

    Cute! We just painted a canvas with our trains (http://play-trains.com/painting-with-trains/) and it would definitely make cool valentines, now that I think of it.

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      February 7, 2013 at 9:44 am

      That’s an awesome idea Jessica!!! You could do, “I choo-choose you to be my valentine!”

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  2. Kim @ The Educators' Spin Ont It says

    February 10, 2013 at 9:30 am

    Love love love this idea! Especially for those sweet boys! Thank y ou for sharing on our after school party this week. We’ve featured you, and hope you’ll join us this week too! Here’s the link http://theeducatorsspinonit.blogspot.com/2013/02/last-minute-valentines-day-ideas-after.html

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      February 11, 2013 at 2:54 pm

      Thanks Kim! So exciting!

      Reply

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