Previous Normal Valentine’s Day
It’s nearly Valentine’s Day and this yr in our little household we thought we might rejoice this vacation much like how we celebrated Christmas and have an excellent old style Valentine’s Day!
We will likely be making easy little treats, creating our personal little classic Valentine playing cards to ship to family and friends, and placing up some old style decorations. Maybe it is possible for you to to make use of a few of the concepts on this put up so as to add to your personal old style Valentine’s Day celebration.
Previous Normal Valentine’s Treats and Goodies
In fact, all Valentine’s Day celebrations want treats! We don’t eat many sweets at our home and my oldest son doesn’t even actually get pleasure from treats so we are going to largely keep on with fruit.
One thing else I’m making for him are these little Sweet Buttons. These aren’t made together with your conventional sweet substances like powdered sugar and dye however are quite simple and engaging!
Pure Sweet Buttons
What You Want:
- 3/4 cup Coconut Butter (Where to Buy)
- 1/4 cup Coconut Oil (Where to Buy)
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 teaspoons Maple Syrup
Barely soften the Coconut Butter and the Coconut Oil if they’re exhausting. You might be able to change the coconut butter with barely softened common butter in case you don’t want these to be dairy free like we do, however now we have not but tried them that manner so I’m not promising that it’ll work. Coconut Butter could be very tasty although!
Stir within the Vanilla and Maple Syrup till all substances are mixed and there are not any lumps. Pour the combination right into a pastry bag or just right into a zipper bag with a nook minimize off and place drops of the deal with onto a bit of waxed paper that’s on a cookie or baking sheet. Place the drops in a chilly place (a fridge will work or this time of yr we will simply put them outdoors!) and coll them till hardened. Peel off the wax paper and revel in! Retailer extras within the fridge.
Listed here are another yummy treats you possibly can strive on your celebration:
Previous Normal Valentines
We love sending and getting snail mail at our little farmhouse, so one of many issues that we’re doing is creating cute classic fashion Valentine playing cards to ship to family and friends. To create these we merely used a few of the craft paper, glitter and issues that we had readily available to create our playing cards, together with some free classic Valentine clip artwork. Listed here are a couple of sources for you:
Including raised components to your card or steel coloured elaborations will actually assist create that “classic look”.
Previous Normal Valentine’s Day Decor
Now I’m not likely positive what they did for decorations again within the day for Valentine’s Day (I’m considering not a lot!) however we wished to verify to maintain it frugal and easy so listed below are some issues that we did!
- A colourful paper chain.
- Some wax paper ironed over fairly tissue paper and minimize into hearts. (We hung these across the home windows!)
- Flower centerpieces (pictured above). This was a enjoyable one, however nonetheless very simple! Choose up candlesticks, fake roses or flowers, and Styrofoam balls from the greenback retailer. Minimize the flowers in order that they have a really brief stem and stick it into the Styrofoam balls. As soon as the balls are stuffed, place them on prime of the candlesticks and use as a centerpiece in your desk. Tremendous simple, even my toddler may assist me make these.
That’s all for our Valentine’s Day enjoyable. Subsequent yr we are going to most likely add in some easy little video games as effectively. What are you doing for Valentine’s Day and what are a few of the issues you make?
