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The boys and I really wanted to decorate for Valentine’s Day, but it is hard to find fun decorations. I was trying to think of something the boys would be able to help with, since they are 4 and almost 6 now and I want to start including them in our decorating. As I was putting away some party stuff the other day, I noticed some glassine bags.  I pondered if the glassine was really just waxed paper, and it turns out they were!  I’m not sure why I never really made the connection before.

I started thinking about waxed paper and the crayon art that my son Henry made in preschool, and decided to give it a try.  The craft at school ended up muddled a bit, so we filtered the colors we used, and included some awesome neon crayons to make a pretty garland to chase away the grey days we have here in Seattle. We ended up with a Valentine’s Day garland that isn’t just “pink with girly hearts” as the boys described it, and I think it looks like watercolors.  Win-win.

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