Super Valentines

Happy late Valentine's Day! The project I did this weekend of course had to go with the Valentines theme and I thought there was nothing better than making actual valentines! For my sisterhood with Prim Roses, we did a throwback elementary style party. Everyone decorated boxes and handed out valentines. I wanted to be a bit more creative than just buying the generic kind and passing those out, so I looked to Pinterest and found a ton of adorable valentine ideas! I found one where they put capes on lollipops to look like superheroes! It was my favorite one, so I went with it. Look below on how to make Super Valentines!

Materials:

• Package of Dum-Dums (I got the 200 count and it was about $6)
• Cardstock paper (2 packages at Walmart, $6 total)
• Pen
• Hole puncher
• Scissors

Steps:

1. First, get out the cardstock you bought. I found Valentine's Day themed ones for $3 each at Walmart so I went with that. You could also just get plain white and decorate them yourselves if you want, but I went the easier route.
    
   
2. Next you're going to trace the shape of a cape onto the paper. I just free handed it, but if you wanted to be precise I'm sure you could find a stencil somewhere. I filled up the entire page so I wouldn't waste any of the paper. This is also the time to write your little note on the cape. You can see that I went with "Have a SUPER Valentine's Day".
   
3. After you have your note written on them, it's time to cut them out. When that's finished, punch holes towards the top of the cape. Be careful not to punch a hole where the words are!
   
4. When that's done, you just slide them onto the Dum-Dum and you're done!
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

These were a hit with all the girls! They all loved them! I also think this is a perfect valentine to make for guys and girls. I made 34 of them total, so I had a ton of suckers and cardstock left over. It was about $12 to make total. It would have been less if I bought the smaller bag of Dum-Dums, but I wanted to have leftover, so you could make these for a lot less. Also, you can use any brand of sucker for this, just make sure with whichever one you choose to make the capes proportional to them. Since I used Dum-Dums, I had to make the capes pretty small. But, overall I'd say these were a big success!