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For Valentine’s Day this year, I made these kids some color-me heart stuffies, inspired by our decorate-a-monster stuffies! They were very simple to make: cut a heart shape out of muslin (twice), stitch together, trim seam allowance, stuff, stitch shut, add a face, and hand to kiddos to play with! We decorate ours with washable markers, so they can be decorated over and over!
Johnny was good friends with his stuffie from the start! The Heart Friends seemed to get along pretty well right off the bat:
And they are having lovely adventures together!
Emma loves Valentine’s Day, so we’ve done some fun activities through the years! The felt hearts we sewed last year still make their way around the house, the kids play with their flannel board felt hearts on a regular basis, and I think next week I’ll show Emma how to make a felt woven heart. Maybe we’ll make an “I love you” handprint card again, too! Emma is already hard at work on making her own valentines!
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R would love that.
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maryanne Reply:
February 7th, 2012 at 10:14 am
Emma loves to color, wash, repeat =)
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These are so cute! Very clever idea too.
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maryanne Reply:
February 7th, 2012 at 10:14 am
Thanks!
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What a great idea! Those hearts are super cute!
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maryanne Reply:
February 7th, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Thanks! :D
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Added at Mommy-labs! It is so cool how you can just add a face to something and it comes to life! I love your felt board too!
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maryanne Reply:
February 7th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Thank you, Ann!
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I just pinned this post to my Ideas to Remember and Share board. Your craft ideas are always so much fun! And then you have so many others that link up. I could be busy all day long looking at Valentine Crafts!
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maryanne Reply:
February 7th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Thank you, Michelle!
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So cute! Love them.
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maryanne Reply:
February 7th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
The kids thought I was nuts when I started the actual sewing part, so I was glad they liked them so much!
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Such cute stuffies! Great idea using washable markers to decorate them!
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Love those hearts!
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So cute!
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WOW! LOve this and the blog hop, amazing fun for your kids!
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Wow!! SO neat! I love that! Might need to go find some muslin! I think I have some in the basement somewhere…
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Aaahhhh, that’s a lot of links! Super cute. I need to try the washable markers on a stuffy.
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maryanne Reply:
February 8th, 2012 at 8:30 am
Your kids will LOVE it!
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Very cute idea. My girls would love those hearts!
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I finally found a way to integrate teaching the children how to stitch. We have a long way to go to catch up to you but we’re having a go! Their Valentine cards are turning out lovely. At least the children will know how to sew on a button.
Next, MacGyver wants to create a collage from fabric. Try taking a look at one of the books by Stella Blackstone like Secret Seahorse.
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Those are absolutely adorable! And so clever! I would have never thought of using washable markers to make them “reusable”. Great idea!
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I love those hearts!! Ingenious!! The linky’s great too, I linked up two of my Valentine’s post :) Thanks
~MiaB
http://www.mamamiasheart2heart.com
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maryanne Reply:
February 9th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Thanks for linking up!
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I love the idea of using washable markers and redecorating them! That’s a lot of Valentine ideas!!
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so cute!!!
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How fun to use washable markers so that the hearts can take on lots of different characters.
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What a great idea – I love how the cushion with grow with your kids and can be decorated in so many different ways.
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I just love this!!! So sweet and fun!!
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Washable markers? That is so smart! I would not have thought they could be re-colored! That IS a good idea!
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maryanne Reply:
February 13th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
We LOVE washable markers! The Crayola ones always wash out for us easily =)
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