Valentine wrap… letting kid craft save the day

I’m a bad man; though not as bad as when I misplaced Valentine’s Day entirely. This year I just was a bit slow on the getting some sort of wrapping paper for Mrs. Welikeplay’s prezzie. So I got the boys to make some that, as well as looking good and costing mere pennies, gets extra bonus cute points.

You will need
to be in a state of mild panic
brown wrapping paper or that kids colouring paper that comes in huge rolls
a potato
pink paint
a sharp knife

Now for the children and knives bit. It’s good to bear in mind that the Inuit let their children use knives from a young age; they’re given little versions of their parents eating knives. The boys use a long knife whilst the girls get a curved all-purpose ulu. Kids are going to be ok with knives as long as you teach them how, what’s more if you teach them how then they’ll be safer than having to experiment when they’ve got their mits on an illicit pointy objects. I use the maxims ‘cut away from you’, ‘pass the handle’ and ‘blunt knives jump’. I’m sure you have you own, if not it’s time to put that parenting brain into gear.

To make the wrapping, the boys carved potato halves into hearts, dunked them in thinned out pink paint and printed away until our attention wandered. The only reason the paint was thinned was to ensure it dried in time. Which it did.

…and should you ever misplace Valentine’s Day completely, I found a let-out clause in a swift promise of a private not-V-day - complete with spontaneous choccies in heart shaped boxes - sometime in mid-March.

Enjoy

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