William came home from preschool with a class list for Valentines Day cards. I had intended for this year to be store bought because of time but didn't really like any of the ones we saw. So how hard or time consuming can it be to make a card, right? Well, I got fancier than I wanted. It's a good thing we didn't wait until the night before!
William LOVES fish and his classroom has fish so I thought we'd do a fish theme. A friend of mine posted this picture on Facebook and the idea was born.
We started started with cutout fish and I somehow convinced William to paint the fish. This was a feet considering he doesn't like doing the same thing for a long time. It pretty much took 2 different time periods to get this done. Then I printed the text onto card stock, cut and folded the paper, glued on the turquoise, punched holes for the bubbles on the dark blue (with a thicker piece of paper behind it) and glued that piece of tissue on top of the turquoise. William was interested in telling me which fish goes to which classmate. He was very particular when it came to the girls. Once the decision was made the fish and name stickers where placed/glued on each card. It was more time consuming than I wanted it to be but since we only needed to make 7 it wasn't that big a deal.
Of course William got one too from Mommy. He picked out which fish he liked.
This morning we worked on a special card for his teachers. He really enjoyed the hand print. Here is Ms. Reesie's card. Ms. Courtney and Ms. Kathleen got one too.
We still haven't finished his grandparent cards. Hopefully we will get a chance to work on that Friday or Saturday. They will be late (sorry grandparents) but we still love you bunches!
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