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 Valentine's day CANDY COUNTDOWN

I had some girlies say that they couldn't find the plastic hearts that I put in my tutorial HERE  so I checked my local dollar tree AND online, and could not find them anymore or anything really close ANYWHERE either.  So, I thought I'd come up with a different type of countdown, and I prefer this new one :) 

Things you'll need:

Valentine buckets/pails  ($1 section at Target)

dry foam each pkg comes with 4 pieces enough to make 4 buckets ($1 Tree)

Valentine suckers ($1 Tree for 20ct pkg)

Numbers 1-14 printed by you in a pretty font

scissors

tape/glue

The stuffage

The lootage

 The bucket-age

Ok, now comes the complicated part....

Place the dry foam into the bucket.

I KNOW it's a tuffy, but, you know, that's how I rollllz :)

Place all your suckers with the numbers in a random fashion, and you got your very own cute countdown for your little or BIG lovies!

Enjoy!

your jennintine


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Valentine's Day Advent Tutorial, kindof

**Click HERE for a more recent candy countdown tutorial

Well, for a couple years now, I've been wanting to make the kiddos their own Valentine's Day Advent count down calendar.  I FINALLY found the right supplies, for the right $$ though I'm still tweaking it, and I will probably change it next year. I just wanted to post this in case someone wanted to make one for their fam.

Ok That being said let's get busy, making this easy calendar

So you start with  a plastic heart from Wally-world, or anywhere else you can find one for a decent price.  I paid $1.50

See, a buck-fitty

Now go to your local Dollar tree and get yourself 2 Packages of these babies (per Calendar)  They have pink, red, and white to choose from.

So now, just hot glue these lil hearts to the big one, in whatever random fashion you'd like

Now, it'd be handy if you had a cricut, and could cut out some cute little numbers, but alas mine DIED after I cut out one calendars worth. (sniff)  (I just got to start playing when the cutter crapped out) : /

EDITED TO SAY: That hot glue on this project is NOT THE BEST CHOICE, I've come to think that little permanent foam squares would be a better option, as the plastic flexes too much for the glue.

Now fill your hearts with candy for your lovies

So cute

Now glue a little ribbon at the top, and let your little love decorate with Dollar Store foam stickies and pose for a quick pic. and for about $4 you have a cute little advent for your little one, OR big one :)

P.S. The little one's did most of the work, and they LOVED it

Here's mine with the numbers, I painted the heart pink and mod-podged the numbers on.  

Happy Valentine's Day

****ALSO edited to apologize for my loose lips calling this calendar an ADVENT calendar! YIKES! I even know better! Hope I didn't offend anyone with that! Enjoy this Valentine's COUNT DOWN calendar! :)

                                                                   
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