Valentine candy container
Difficulty: Easy
Parental supervision is recommended
Recycle a baby food jar into a Valentine's candy container. A fun craft for kids to give sweets to their sweet!
What you'll need:
- Baby food jar and lid, washed, rinsed, and dried
- Valentine fabric scrap
- Low temp glue gun
- Pinking shears
- Yogurt lid (or similar size)
- Pen
- Red "Painters" paint markers
- Pink "Painters" paint markers
- Candy
Painted lid:
- Baby food jar and lid, washed, rinsed, and dried
- Pink craft paint
- Red craft paint
- Paintbrush
- Red "Painters" paint markers
- Pink "Painters" paint markers
- Candy
How to make it:
- Use the paint markers to draw on a few hearts on the side of the jar. You may wish to add a TO/FROM on the jar itself as well. Let dry.
- If creating the fabric covered lid, then trace around the yogurt lid on the wrong side of the fabric. Cut out with pinking shears.
- Center the fabric, wrong side down, on the middle of the jar lid. Glue in place on the top and in places on the side of the lid.
- If creating the painted lid, then paint with pink paint. Let dry. Paint red heart on lid. Let dry.
- Fill the jar with Valentine candy.
- Fasten the lid on the jar.
- Give the candy jar to someone special for Valentines Day.
