Didn’t you know Valentine’s Day and pencils go hand in hand?
Well, you need a pencil to write the card you’re gonna give to your sweetie, right? Because if you’re anything like me you write, second-guess, erase, rewrite, third-guess, erase, rewrite and so on and so on…
So I declare pencils the official writing apparatus of Valentine’s Day!
On board?
Here’s what you need for Valentine’s Pencils:
- Yellow construction paper
- Pink Construction paper
- scissors
- double sided tape
- hot glue gun
- Hershey’s Kisses
- I used Mentos for the pencil, but you could use Rolos too!
- aluminum foil
- Black Sharpie
- Pinking Shears-optional
Here’s what you do:
- I used Mentos because there are so many kids with allergies and these seemed to be the best option.
- Hot glue a Hershey Kiss to the end of the Mentos.
- Cover the pencil with foil and twist the foil at the tip, over the Kiss, and if you have a little too much, just snip it off…
- I colored the tip with the Sharpie to look like the tip of a pencil.
- Now cut your yellow construction paper to wrap your “pencil”, leaving about an inch at the end unwrapped.
- If you want, trim the bottom edge with your pinking shears
- Use double sided tape to adhere the paper.
- Now tightly roll it up.
- Now start your eraser. Using your pink paper, trace the top of the candy, making a circle and hot glue that to the top of the Mento (top of the eraser)
- Now cut your pink paper, to wrap it around the top to make the eraser. about 3/4″
- Now line the pink paper with double sided tape and roll it up. Leaving a small strip of foil showing.
I wrote on the pencil a Valentine’s message with my black Sharpie.
And if you would like to attach your child’s Valentine, punch a hole in the corner…
and tie on with a ribbon.
*Sorry about the lack of instructional pictures in this post. The internet “ate” them when I did a server move.
Hope the instructions help!
These are absolutely adorable! I showed them to my 8 year old daughter this morning and she loved them too. We were both sad because we just finished up her Valentines treats last night!(Had to do them early because we are going out of town).But I am definately going to print these out for next year! Thanks for sharing!
They look amazing!What a fun project. I love things like that, and how candy can turn into other things. I made Hershey kiss roses last year, they were fun!
You always have such great posts Shelly!
here is the link to the Hershey roses. LOL, you'll get the idea, the photos are blurry, wow really blurry! Took them before I knew I was ever going to have a blog 🙂
http://createdbydiane.blogspot.com/2010/02/candy-rosebuds-for-valentines-day-is.html
I thought you'd think it was fun. You can put them on pencils!!!! Then they would be another super Valentine treat 🙂 but I think your is cuter!
So cute!!! I clicked over from Chalk Talk, and I'm so glad I did. I'm immediately adding you to my blogroll! 🙂
Absolutely LOVE IT!!!
I am an educator and I will definitely use this idea for
TEACHERS APPRECIATION WEEK (First week of May).
Thanks!!!
I saw this on Erin's site too. Your pencils look perfectly darling! I'm sure all the kids will love them!
Thank you so much for linking back to me. I am honored that you liked our project! I just love your blog and make so many of your recipes.
Your pencils look fantastic!!!
This is too adorable!!! I was going to make conversation heart cookies, but I am thinking this is much less time consuming and fun!!!
so super cute! I love this idea and may snatch it for valentines treats for my nieces and nephew. TFS!
Love it!!:-) Cinderell@
Super cute! What a great idea for kids!
Thanks for sharing