Valentine’s Day Love Crafts for Family
Valentine’s Day is one day each year that reminds us to focus on the people we LOVE! I absolutely LOVE everything about showing LOVE to others but my philosophy is to focus on loving others EVERY day of the year.
Wikipedia summarizes the history and folklore of Valentine’s day
“Saint Valentine’s Day, also known as Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it remains a working day in most of them. St. Valentine’s Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. Several martyrdom stories were invented for the various Valentines that belonged to February 14….. A popular account of Saint Valentine of Rome states that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire. According to legend, during his imprisonment, he healed the daughter of his jailer, Asterius. An embellishment to this story states that before his execution he wrote her a letter signed “Your Valentine” as a farewell.Today, Saint Valentine’s Day is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion, as well as in the Lutheran Church.The Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrates Saint Valentine’s Day, albeit on July 6th and July 30th, the former date in honor of the Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and the latter date in honor of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna (modern Terni). In Brazil, the Dia de São Valentim is recognized on June 12.
The day was first associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines”). Valentine’s Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.”
So I like to take the opportunity on Valentine’s Day to be creative and make something special for those I LOVE! You can bake a heart shaped cake, make a homemade Valentine, put love notes in your kids’ lunches-the list is endless.
This year, our Growing Weisser Blog is promoting a special Valentine’s Day offer from the Dating Divas that we have posted for the past week. Go to this post and you too can purchase the downloads and have fun making homemade Valentine’s gifts for the people you love. I decided to print out a few of the ideas from their offer and put a bit of personal flair into them.
I made my husband a framed LOVE note…..from #21 Family Ever After
I made my grandkids a Valentine’s BINGO set….#3 Yellow Bliss Road
I also printed off a Valentine’s Special dinner invitation pack, complete with placemats to color for the grandkids….#5 My Sister’s Suitcase, and I printed a fun cut and paste activity to make with my 4 year old grandson…#14 Falala Designs.
Check out all the other options for homemade LOVE gifts and start spreading some LOVE.
What do you have planned for celebrating Valentine’s Day with the ones you LOVE?
