As my daughter gets older, she likes to be more involved with different activities, and especially likes to help make things. We decided to make some valentines for a few select friends at church, and got this inspiration from a article in Parenting magazine. With a few minor tweaks, we made this craft our own.

To make the shell of our valentines, we used orange paper, plastic needlework mesh, brown paint and a paintbrush.

My kiddo painted the mesh with the paint, and then we stamped our orange paper to give it a fun criss/cross design, similar to taco shells.

We kept doing this for all our pieces of paper.

We allowed the paper to dry overnight.

Next we use a cereal bowl to make circles, then cut them out.

I had some leftover green shredded paper from Easter last year, which worked perfectly for “lettuce” – we used craft glue to hold it in place.

Next we glued red sparkle hearts I bought at the dollar store to be our “tomatoes” – I alternated the large and small sizes.

Lastly I stapled the taco shut and added a corny little message to the front.

Taco ’bout cute…

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