Here's a sweet Valentine's Day idea to do with the kiddos.
1) Fold four paper baking cups into half and lay two out flat.
2) Punch a hole 1/4 inch from the edge on the four folded papers. Fold the other two papers in half and punch off the edge to make a hole in the center of the baking cup (see below), unfold the two with center holes.
3) Place four folded papers onto sucker stick, overlapping 1/4 of the baking cup each time a paper is added. Then place two open papers.
4) For the leaves, lay out two pieces of green masking tape about 7 inches long, sticky side facing up. Place a piece of wire in the center of one piece. Put sticky sides together with wire sandwiched in the middle. Cut a leaf shape at each end with 1 inch trimmed in the middle (see below). Twist leaves underneath paper baking cups.
Materials used:
Green masking tape
Regular hole punch
Paper baking cups (6 for each flower)
Wire
Tootsie Roll Pops or Dum Dum Suckers