What you need: Pink cardstock, pink and red heart stickers, pink and brown markers, black felt, pink felt, peach felt, red felt, purple felt, white felt, craft glue, scissors What you do: 1. Fold your cardstock in half. 2. Cut out a hamster shape from your pink felt. A hamster is basically a large circle with a smaller circle on top for a head. You can cut out four little peach paws and feet. 3. Glue on the paws and feet. 4. Cut out two little pink ears and stick them on. 5. Cut out three white circles – two for the cheeks, one for the muzzle. The cheek circles should be about twice the size as the muzzle circle. 6. Cut out one small pink rectangle for the nose. 7. Cut out two small black circles for the eyes. 8. Cut out a bunch of small purple red and purple hearts. Stick them all over the hamster. 9. When your hamster is dry, stick it to the front your card. 10. With a marker, write “Have a MAZIN’ Valentine’s Day!” above your hamster. 11. Write a special message in the card, and give it to someone special!

What you need: Cardstock (patterned cardstock is great for cards!), yellow cardstock, black marker, yellow fabric paint, pink cardstock, white paper, red felt, envelop, scissors What you do: 1. Fold your cardstock in half. 2. Cut out two bee-shapes from the yellow cardstock (a bee is sort of like an oval with a circle on top). 3. Draw vertical stripes on the oval part of the bee. 4. Add on eyes and a mouth on the circle part of the bee. 5. Place your bees on the front of the card (facing each other).. 6. Cut out four ovals from the white paper. Glue those on behind the bees. Glue the bees on top. 7. Glue the red heart between them. 8. Cut two rectangles – one smaller than the other – and glue them beneath the bees. 9. Write “Bee Mine” on the rectangles (you can use the yellow fabric paint for this, or just use a marker). 10. Draw on antennae with the yellow fabric paint. 11. When everything’s dry, make a matching envelope! Write on the inside of the card and get ready to make someone’s Valentine’s Day lovely!  

Want a super-fast and fun treat to make for your whole class? Check out the Lollipop Butterflies- they’re adorable and delicious! What you need: One lollipop for each kid in your class, dark purple paper (you can get two sets of butterfly wings out of each piece, so if you had 24 kids in your class, you’d need 12 pieces), medium purple paper (again, you can get two sets of butterfly wings out of each piece), and light purple paper (you can get four butterflies out of each piece of paper, so if you had 24 kids in your class, you’d need six pieces of paper), craft glue, clear tape, black marker What you do: 1. Cut out one butterfly body for each lollipop. The butterfly’s body looks like a long oval with a circle on top. 2. Make two dark purple wings for each lollipop. Fold the purple paper in half, then in quarters. Cut out a wing shape – kind of like the capital letter ‘B’. 3. Cut two medium purple wing shapes for each lollipop (like a smaller version of the letter ‘B’ you just cut out). 4. Glue the medium purple wing shapes on top of … Read more →

It’s great to collect roses at the Park from Cinnamon (and one from the Webkinz Newz), but how about making some flowers of your very own? It’s easy! What you need: Tissue paper, green pipe cleaner, scissors What you do: 1. Cut six rectangles of tissue paper (about 6 inches by 3 inches). 2. Stack the rectangles and fold them like an accordion. 3. Fold the stack in half. Twist the top part of the pipe cleaner around the stack. 4. Cut a little bit off the end of each side (this will give the leaves shape). 5. Gently pull apart the tissue paper and fluff up the flower. 6. Add a leaf to the stem, if you like. You can also spritz your flower with perfume to make it smell sweet!