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Valentines Day is arriving shortly and is a great excuse to spend some fun, quality time with your entire family. The following is a list of some activities that you can enjoy with your kids to celebrate this day of love. Help them learn how to appreciate their loved ones and the holiday in general with the following arts and crafts ideas:

Cookies: This may seem like an obvious valentines day project for you and your kids but it absolutely could not be left out as it is a holiday tradition for many families. Whether you prefer simple sugar cookies to chocolate chip, peanut butter to oatmeal, no Valentine's Day cookie is the same without your classic heart shaped cookie cutter tool. Around this time of year you should probably be able to find one of these, or better, a set of them, at Publix, Shaw's, Walmart or whichever grocery store chain is most convenient for you. CVS or Brooks may even carry them right now, as they have a good array of household and kitchen items in stock. But if you find yourself in an unusual panic to find a heart shaped cookie cutter, for some reason, you'll probably be certain to find one of great quality at your favorite local craft retailer.

Once you have your heart cookie cutter, there's a few things you can do with it. One, is the obvious: Use it to cut out hearts in your favorite flavored cookie. But here's another fun idea your children might enjoy. Try using your heart cutout as a stencil of sorts on top of your cookies. For example, once you have a regular cookie shape, wait until the cookies are on the rack cooling down. While they are still impressionable yet not too soft that they will fall apart, place the heart stencil-cutter lightly on top of the moist dough. Then, while you hold the cookie cutter still, you can have your child pour something in the middle of it, thus filling up the heart shape. Look in your grocery's baking section near the frosting and you should be able to find something like sprinkles or little candy stars. When you remove the stencil, you will have a cookie (sugar works best in this case) with a solid heart in the middle of it made with another edible goodie. You can also, while you are still holding the heart still on top of the sugar cookie, take a thin frosting applicator pen and trace the inside of the heart to add a shapely design outlined when the stencil is again removed. There are plenty of ideas. Be creative! And note you can also use these techniques on the top of cupcakes.

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