I SPY/Where's Waldo Valentine's Book

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What do you do with your kids' used Valentine's?

My daughter received a bunch from pre-school and they both got a bunch from friends. My son was carrying around the Winnie-the-Pooh valentine and my daughter really loved the Cars one. Should I just throw them away? Or let them junk up the house!

"No! I'll make something fun for the kids," I thought.


They really enjoy Where's Waldo books with all the little people to look at and the treasures to find. So I thought I would make an I-Spy/Where's Waldo type book out of their Valentine's!


First, I gathered up all the Valentine's.

Then I cut the words off of each Valentine. I also cut out five 6X6 pieces of cardstock. While I was doing this, my kids insisted on fingerpainting and using water colors:) I decided there were Valentine's my kids (ages 3.5 and 19 months) wouldn't appreciate like Jonas brothers, Twilight and Hannah Montana. Those went in the recycle can with the cut-out valentine words!

Next I pieced together the valentines onto the cardstock trying to make them all fit with as little empty spaces as possible.
When I liked the placement, I got the lovely Mod Podge out and glued the valentines into place. In the empty spaces, I cut out little pictures from Oriental Trading catalog, grocery ads and magazines and glued them on. Some of the pictures overlapped an edge so I trimmed around the edges making it into a square. After the glue dried, my kids had something new to keep them busy!


My kids LOVE their new "toy." Before I could put it in a book, they grabbed the pages and started playing "Find This." Here they are telling each other what to find while sitting on one of our play boxes! Baby was there to help them find it!


The next day, I put the pages in a little 6x6 scrapbook. Once again, they resumed "Find This." The reason both their tongues are hanging out is because they think they are dogs. Some days, they don't want to act like people. (I'll have to post the dog bones I sewed for them another day.) Does anyone know how to get Blogger to turn this picture the correct way? There you have it! A little I Spy/Where's Waldo-type book with their favorite characters for an hour of entertainment. Perfect for church or quiet time. Great to develop skills of looking for details and scanning. Just the right thing for my kids. I plan to add to this book and make it more than 5 pages long!!!

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