{"id":14353,"date":"2017-01-25T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highdesertmg.wpengine.com\/our-holly-days\/2017\/01\/25\/box-of-crayons-valentines\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T14:00:53","slug":"box-of-crayons-valentines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/2017\/01\/25\/box-of-crayons-valentines\/","title":{"rendered":"Box of Crayons Valentines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/2017\/01\/box-of-crayons-valentines\/\">Holly Sosa<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/2017\/01\/box-of-crayons-valentines\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/box-of-crayons-valentines5.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><span>This post may contain affiliate links.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Since Valentine&#8217;s Day is full of more than it&#8217;s fair share of candy, when I help my kiddos put together their class Valentines, we try to think of something that doesn&#8217;t involve candy. This year we made these adorable Box of Crayons Valentines using labels I already had in my home office. It was simple to make and fresh crayons are a fun gift for younger kiddos to receive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUPPLIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jbVE6C\">box of crayons<\/a> (we used 15)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jOZiVP\">Avery 18160 labels<\/a><\/li>\n<li>yarn or <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jcbNZI\">baker&#8217;s twine<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jce3QP\">washi tape<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To create these fun Valentines, we opened a Word Doc and formatted it for the labels. Then we used a fun print font and changed the colors to create a rainbow effect.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/box-of-crayons-valentines1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>We printed the labels and stuck them on each box of crayons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/box-of-crayons-valentines2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>For added embellishments we used yarn and washi tape to dazzle them up a little more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/box-of-crayons-valentines4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>This Box of Crayons Valentines craft was easier than some of the store bought ones and I think it results in a gift that the kiddos in my boys classes will get practical use out of. The crayons could easily be swapped out with colored pencils, markers, or even Sharpies for teachers (or stationery addicts like myself!).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/box-of-crayons-valentines7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<h3>For more ideas like this simple Valentine&#8217;s Day gift craft, be sure to <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/ourhollydays\">follow Our Holly Days on Pinterest<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>The post <a target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/2017\/01\/box-of-crayons-valentines\/\">Box of Crayons Valentines<\/a> appeared first on <a target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/\">Our Holly Days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/2017\/01\/box-of-crayons-valentines\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Box of Crayons Valentines\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Holly Sosa This post may contain affiliate links. Since Valentine&#8217;s Day is full of more than it&#8217;s fair share of candy, when I help my kiddos put together their class Valentines, we try to think of something that doesn&#8217;t involve candy. This year we made these adorable Box of Crayons Valentines using labels I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}