Veggie Valentines
The kids have been home sick from school all week, though they’re on the mend now—I think they’ll be able to go back tomorrow. Still, it’s been a pretty wretched week of coughing and snot and being all cooped up in the house. So this afternoon I decided it was time to do something fun, and I set the kids to a project of making Valentines for their preschool friends.
This year we went all Martha with it. I found this idea for making Valentine’s cards using vegetable stamps on the Martha Stewart website, and it seemed both cute and fun, so we tried it out. The radicchio we brought home was too wide to make a good stamp, but we had better results with Brussels sprouts and the end of a head of celery:
The kids really enjoyed playing around with the vegetable stamps (and the white-ink pen), although their cards tended to fill up quickly with undifferentiated smudges and scribbles. So I ended up making most of the Valentines that we’ll actually give out. Still, the results are cute and a good time was had by all, so I’d call this project a win. Thanks, Martha!
