Preschool Valentine's Day celebrations!

Ani has a Valentine's Day party at school today. We got the notification for it a couple of weeks ago and ever since, he's been excited.

I really enjoy these kiddie-parties. These are great opportunities to be creative, health-concious and thrifty, all at the same time. Ani and I spend a lot of time bouncing ideas off each other regarding what he should take as edible treats and what he should take to give away as gifts. And we both love the planning, the shopping and the making aspects of all these parties. We have multiple events like this every year: V'day to begin with, then his birthday, then Halloween and then Christmas and New Year.

This year for V day, this is what we did:

Strawberry hearts

 We had strawberry hearts and raspberries with vanilla yogurt for the in-school treat.

Then, for a gift to take back home, we bought these Go-go Applesauce squeezies.

And for each squeezie, we made a little card.
For boys, we made the T-phone (from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and for the girls, pink hearts.

Making the cards

Squeezies with their little cards

Inside the T-phone card, it says  "Have a (T)phone-tastic Valentine's!"
And on the pink hearts, as you can see, it says "Squeeze me, Valentine!"

Nice, eh? I will update this post later with the link that gave me the ideas in their entirety for the Gogo squeezie and the pink hearts. But the T-phone idea was all Ani's :)

Durgoose, since neither she nor her classmates are old enough to care too much about gifts yet, she got just the strawberries (chopped into small pieces) with the yogurt.

Hopefully the kids enjoy themselves. I can just imagine Ani's excitement this evening when he comes  back home with the gifts that the other kids brought for him!