Are you familiar with Grandparents.com?  If not, I recommend that you take some time to check out the site.

They have a couple of fun Valentine’s Day crafts that you could do with your grandchildren.  One is to make a Valentine Posy out of lollipops.  The one (that I really like) isto make a Valentine Place Mat.

Basically, to make the place mat, you need clear contact paper and various flat Valentine decorations.  You’ll cut pieces of contact paper to the size you want.  Place one piece sticky side up.  Place your decorations  — doilies, hearts cut otr of construction paper, pictures cut out of a magazine, letters cut out to spell words like love — on the sticky side.

Place the sticky side of the second piece of clear contact paper on the sticky side of the first piece and voila! You have a place mat.  (You’ll probably want to read their directions. . .)

It would be a fun tradition making these with your grandchildren.  Then, keep their place mat from year to year.  You could see the artistic development over the years.

You could make one and send it off to a grandchild that lives far away.  But you’d better hurry.  Valentine’s Day will be here soon!