Valentine's Day Card Box.

I swear Valentines day stuff was popping up in November. It feels like as soon as Christmas finishes Valentines day just creeps up right behind. 

 

My husband and I used to go all out for Valentines day with gifts, candle light dinners (we even got engaged on February,14th) But, 3 kids later (and our bedtime being 10pm) we seem to make it more all about the kids these days. 

I'll decorate our bay window with hearts. Make heart shaped pancakes for breakfast, heart shaped pizza for dinner and even heart shaped cookies. Hearts, and red everywhere. 

On Tuesday my daughter, said she needed a box to collect all her valentines at school on Friday. I know they sell those mail boxes for Valentines at Walmart, so we headed there. There was a bunch of mail boxes, but nothing for someone in fifth grade, she felt everything was too babyish....(I guess the princesses aren't the cool thing in 5th grade anymore).  I wasn't about to travel store to store for the one she had pictured in her mind (that probably doesn't exist). I told her how about we just make something at home. If we made it at home nobody would have the same thing and she can paint (I don't know if the word paint convinced her but we were headed home). We came home, the only box I can think of that we had was a cereal box. I pulled out the box, my crafts we went to work and together this is what we came up with!

Here is the finished project.

We were going for the chalkboard look. I didn't have anymore Chalkboard Paint so, I used acrylic paint. We also tried using just chalk at first, but with the shine of the acrylic it wasn't coming out the way we wanted. So, instead for the writing I used a white paint marker (you can find this at any craft store). I did use a red chalk to fill in the hearts. 

I really like the way it came out. It was very easy to do and I am excited to see my daughter use it tomorrow at school!

I posted directions below.

 

Have a Happy Valentines Day! Let me know what you think! 

Just any regular sized cereal box.

I cut out a slit out with a box cutter. I made it big enough to fit cards, candy, toys, etc.

The other side of the box.

The other side.

This would be the top of the cereal box. We didn't tape the flap down we just put the tab into place

You Will Need:

• 1 Cereal box (any size will work)
• Acrylic Paint (any color you'd like)
• Paint markers (any colors)
• Box Cutter (For grown up use only)

Take a cereal box any size works. (Adults) cut a slit on one side of the box. (I cut it big enough to fit cards, candies or any other little items.)

Paint the whole box. Let it dry. (The acrylic paint dried pretty quickly.) I think depending on the paint you use 1- 4 hours of drying time seems average. 24 hours might be your safest bet.

Then decorate and design any way you want!


If you do make this, post pictures. I'd love to see all the other different ideas! Happy crafting :-)