be my valentine

Rachel's never had to decorate a Valentine's box before.  They've always decorated them at school, so I've never had to worry about helping her make one.  I've seen other people's creations on Facebook and Pinterest, but we've never done one.  

On Monday we got a note from the teacher telling us that because of all of the snow days the kids have had, she didn't have time to have them decorate them at school, as usual, so we needed to have them decorate one at home.  I got on Pinterest to see what ideas I could show Rachel, but some of them were so elaborate that I knew it would end up that she'd want ME to do it to make it look "right." I decided I didn't want to be the one doing it, I wanted it to be her creation.  So I didn't show her any ideas.  I didn't give her any direction, really. I just wrapped a box with the only non-birthday/non-Christmas wrapping paper we had, and turned her loose with my scrapbooking supplies.  

She had a blast!  

Afterward she wanted pictures of ALL of the sides....

She's so proud of it, and I'm happy that it's all her work, not a mom-made box.