easiest v-day craft evahhh

When Suzy was younger, she wasn't really into coloring, painting, etc due to not wanting to get dirty at all. However, she has turned into quite the Craft Queen, always wanting to paint, draw, make something. I love seeing her creative side coming out and seeing the skills that we take for granted develop...for example, her stick people actually look like people (she recently made an uncanny drawing of Granddaddy with "itty bitty hair") and just this week, she has really figured out how to use the scissors well to follow lines I draw for her. She has wanted me to draw fruits, shapes, etc for her to cut out which has been a great way to stay busy!

Since we are getting close to Valentine's Day, she wanted to make a craft. Since she has already used up most of her paper, paint, etc that we had on hand here in NY (and I wasn't heading to Wally world during the great blizzard of '13), we had to get creative with the basics and the little bit of paint we had left. Thanks Pinterest for some ideas!

For the record, I think this was the first time that something I tried from Pinterest didn't turn out unrecognizable/inedible. 

All you have to do is get a toilet paper roll, squish it into a heart shape, dip it in a little bit of paint and use it like a stamp.

Voila! Heart art! 

Much easier than trying to cut a heart stamp out of a potato...believe me.

We made something similar last year at playschool....celery rose stamps which were also really easy:

However, we never keep celery at our house because neither I nor Elvis can stand it...only Suzy has an interest in it because of Wonder Pets (hands-down my fave cartoon)! 

Suzy was so excited that she starting running in circles singing this song: ("Valentine's Day is almost here!")