Valentine's Day is long gone, but here's a great way to spend an extended weekend with the grandkids while their parents take a winter break. We began planning several weeks ago and it's amazing as to how many great ideas a 6 year old can have! Since the girls were spending several nights, the schedule needed to be filled with plenty of fun activities, games and projects. We decided to call it our Festival of Hearts Party and with a little luck, it may become a February tradition. The first night of the party began with dinner, a heart cutouts house decorating activity, reading storybooks, a quick bath, tooth brushing, pillow fight and then an early bedtime to insure they would be well rested on Party Day. To decorate the house, we were able to get a lot of Valentine decorations on sale at 75% off because of the post Valentine's Day sales. We also cut and colored small hearts, stapled them to straws to use as pokes and hung a few from strings to make orname
