Valentine's Tree Craft Project Inspired By Southern Living Magazine

Aren't these Valentine cookies adorable and yummy looking?

Too bad I won't be baking any!  You see, I'm not much of a baker, so I may not get to baking some of these.

But my daughters loved the images of them as well as I did.  So we decided to make something like these that we could save for a much longer time than if they were real cookies.

We decided to use felt to make the cookies.

We tied them with ribbon and made a Valentine's tree.

Here it is:

 

  

  

We set out around the neighborhood to find the perfect fallen branch to spray paint white for our tree.

We found the pink bucket at Joann's craft store.  I stuffed the inside of the base with the leftover felt scraps.

I'll be honest.  We did the felt cookies for about 2 hours one night, continued the next morning for another hour, and then finally got it all together on day three.

Yep!  Three day project.  But so worth it.

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I must add that I was able to applique a shirt for my 8 yr. old daughter that suited her tastes for Valentine's.