Nothing trumps googly eyes. They make everything better. There is no such thing as a wrong time, or too much, or it doesn't match. When the question is googly eyes the answer is always, "Yes, please." We took small jewelery bags (find them by the beads in craft stores) and folded decorative paper over the top. The message covers the staple holding the whole thing together.
Love Bugs. We did these as pins for grandmas and the like when the kids were preschoolers, but magnets work too. Add a few more each Valentines Day until your fridge is so covered you need a love exterminator. We purchased packages of precut wooden hearts, I glued the bug shaped together and let the kids go nuts. These were my designs. Theirs were less precise, but probably more charming.
Eli did this in second grade, I think. We melted old crayons into a heart shaped muffin tin and attached them to blue cardstock circles he decorated with his interpretation of the world. The back says, "You color my world." We adhered the color with double sided adhesive tape-the thick, squishy, white kind.
My fourth grade teacher used to give us little crocheted bookworms whenever we read 10 books. These were Cicely's kindergarten valentines. On the back we stamped "You are the apple of my eye." We did red and green apples and red, green, and pink worms. The worms were just a single crochet stitch for the body and then loop the stitch around the end to make the head. Don't forget the googly eyes.
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