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Valentine Paper Airplanes

February 10, 2010 by dailygnome 3 Comments

Carson’s Valentine Exchange is this week at his school. I wanted to find a project we could do together and would hold his interest.  I did not want to be stuck gluing paper hearts together till the wee hours of the morning all by myself. Plus, if we were making 23 valentines it couldn’t be too time consuming. I scoured the Internet and found this easy and fun paper airplane template. We took it for a test drive and found it flies incredibly well.

I simply printed out the template and instructions (standard printer paper works best for flight). I made up a sheet of red card stock with all of the kids’ names printed on it. Supervising Carson with the paper cutter, he cut out each name and told me something unique about them. Ranging from Emmett likes the moon to Katrina turned me into a pretzel today!

He decided what to write on each plane. For the most part it was You Make My Heart Soar! for the girls and the boys got You’re Plane Cool! with an occasional Fly High, Valentine! randomly thrown in.

We rolled up each plane with a set of instructions, secured with scotch tape and tied on the name tags with bakers twine and ribbon. The entire project took about an hour and a half.

{template and instructions found here}

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Comments

  1. katalin says

    February 10, 2010 at 12:54 am

    There's an Atticus in his class?!

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  2. bailey's place says

    February 10, 2010 at 2:44 am

    Seriously Amy – you amaze me every day… 🙂 Awesome Valentines… lucky for me Bailey's class decided not to exchange Valentines this year (which I was OK with)…they are just having a party.

    Reply
  3. amandadrews says

    February 10, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    So cute! Carson is getting so big… The wonders of watching little people grow!

    Reply

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