Rainbow Loom Bracelet School Valentines With Printables

My daughter loves her Rainbow Loom.  She doesn't use it.  That is why she has me.  Her big idea this year was to make a bracelet for each of the kids in her class this year for Valentine's Day.  And I thought this was a great idea... until I realized *I* would be the one actually making the bracelets.  (I think I see a fine motor skill project in her future).

I made a bunch of fishtail bracelets. The darker ones are for the boys and the lighter glitter ones are for the girls. These were made weeks ago.  But they need a card.  I have seen several very cute ideas out there with various play on the words "rainbow" "loom" and "band".  After poking around I decided to go with "My Heart B'Looms For You."

Here is the card I came up with.  The letters are rainbow colors inside a heart.  I will have my daughter sign her name on the back of each card. I cut these with my Silhouette but you can certainly use scissors.

I used a hole punch to punch out the two holes at the side of the card then scissors to cut from the edge of the heart to the hole.

 The bracelet slips into these holes pretty well.

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Sweet Little Heart Card for Silhouette Studio

Here is a sweet little Valentine's Day card I made on my Silhouette.  

This is what the Silhouette Studio file looks like.  You can download it from my Google drive here.  Please let me know if you have trouble with downloading.

Here are the pieces cut out.

 Glue the square piece behind the front of the card.

Then glue the hearts, as many as you like into place.  I used five hearts in five different colors.  My daughter thought the card needed a bow so I glued one in the center for her.

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Paper Heart Garland

Make this super cute heart garland for Valentine's Day.

Cut out some hearts.  I used my Silhouette but heart punches would work too.

Make a small cut through the shape

Link the hearts together.

Add a jewel or sticker over the cut. 

Hang and enjoy!

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The Importance of Thank You Cards

When I was growing up we never sent thank you cards.  We were of course grateful for gifts given to us from family and friends.  But that was as far as it went. Sometimes we would make a call to say thank you or give the thank you in person the next time we saw the giver.  But taking the time to send an actual card? That was a foreign idea.

It wasn't until I was a young adult that the quaint notion of sending thank you cards struck me as an option.  I tried to remember to send thank you cards but it was sporadic at best. And sadly it wasn't until much later when I realized the real value of a thank you card.

I am changing the culture in my own family so that my daughter expects to send thank you cards.  In fact she gets agitated if we wait too long to write them.

Writing and sending a note of thanks takes effort.  Much more effort than a phone call, text message, or email.  To me, the call or electronic message is simply acknowledgment that the gift reached its intended recipient.  While the thanks expressed at such a moment maybe heart felt, it takes little to no effort and quickly becomes a forgotten moment in time.

The time and thought involved in putting pen to paper to send a written note is a much greater indication of gratitude.  And for those of us who keep such sentiments, the written thank you note becomes a treasure that can be revisited again and again.

Sadly the habit of not sending a note of thanks is holding on strong to the other members of my extended family. And frankly, it makes me less inclined to spend much time, thought or money on a gift the next time around. Perhaps our household's  diligence in sending thank you cards will someday light a spark of inspiration to others.

Here is a simple little thank you card I made on my Silhouette.  This is a print and cut card and will fit in a standard thank you card envelop.

You can download the Silhouette Studio file from my Google Drive by clicking here. There is also a pdf file of the card at the same link.  You will need to resize the pdf so the card prints 5" x 6 3/4" which is a standard thank you card size.

Here I dressed up the card a bit by cutting out paper circles and mounting them over the printed circles.

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More Valentine's Day Tags - Free Printable and Silhouette File

I am so done with thinking about staying warm!  So I am going to focus on Valentine's Day and plan for Spring.  Not that there is anything wrong with winter but serious -30 with a -60 wind chill forecast for next week. This is getting ridiculous.

Here are some super cute Valentine's Day tags for you.

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Valentine's Day Tags - Free Printable and Silhouette file

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Reindeer Candy Cane

I needed an quick craft for our December Girl Scout meeting of Daisies. Here is what I came up with.

This is a free SVG cut file for die cut machines from SVGcuts.com which can be downloaded here. To save time with our 6 year olds, I pre-cut the paper pieces on my Silhouette.  If these were older girls with better scissors skills, we would have done a similar craft where they cut the paper out themselves.

The above picture shows you everything you need except the bottle of glue.  A glue stick is not strong enough.

The only real trick to this project is to make sure you do not glue between the two cut slits in the dark brown paper. The candy cane slides through these slits so do not put any glue here.

Glue the face to the brown paper, then glue on the nose and eyes.  You could draw the eyes on too.  We finished ours with a pre-tied wired bow.

 My daughter wanted hers to be a girl so we glued the bow to the ear.

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Victorian Cone Ornament

I wanted to make something beautiful to "wrap" my coconut oil bath fizzies that I showed you last week here.

Isn't this ornament beautiful!

I cut this out on my Silhouette but I think you could download the files and make

templates to cut by hand as well.  You can download the pattern for free here from svgcuts.com. 

The pattern is way off to the right for some reason so it won't show when you open the file (it opens as a 

webpage); just scroll over then copy and paste it into something like a Word document for printing.  

I used coordinating Christmas papers for the sides of the cone.  Then embellished it and added cording.

 

 Once I popped in a set of my bath fizzies the gift of homemade ornament and 

homemade bath fizzies is ready to go. Actually I also made a gift tag from coordinating 

paper and strung it on the cording as well (not pictured).

I will wrap the ornament and bath fizzies in several sheets of tissue paper then gently box it up.

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