Valentine's ideas - Day Care providers + kids

[jillywilly]

Is this really a thing for babies? Because I was hoping to not have to send Valentines until DS was in elementary school, or at least Pre-K. Please tell me this isn't a thing everywhere, I don't want to be the only mom not sending in Valentines. But at the same time, I really don't want to make Valentines for the babies who don't even know that Valentines Day exists.

[alayne926]

I'm not doing anything for S's class, but for DS, we're doing Paw Patrol cards and a pack of fruit snacks. I'll probably get the teachers some candy or something....if I'm motivated next week.

[Bluedaisy]

Feb 4, 2016 13:44:42 GMT -5 budders said:

Feb 4, 2016 13:43:26 GMT -5 madymoiselle said:

Well, I was not going to do anything but the note this morning was pretty explicit that we should do something sooo here I am ... It weirds me out a little bit to write "be my Valentine" to a baby, so I will just select cards that don't say that !

UO (or maybe not)? I think it's really weird that they asked you to do this for babies AND that it wasn't framed as a voluntary activity.

+1 to this.  Sorry but it's weird that they're doing this.  As an elementary school teacher my class/program tries to minimize it because it gets super wasteful and even the elementary kids don't really read them...they just dig through the bag searching for candy and the stupid little trinkets but we got sooo much flack from parents that it's almost not worth the fight.

[belle0720]

Not giving other babies Valentines since G doesn't go to daycare, but I happened to get a $20 off $20 code to Tiny Prints so I ordered "Classroom" sized Valentines with Baby G's picture on it that just say Happy Valentine's Day! Love, Gianna. I'm going to hand them out to family (convenient since we are all staying in a cabin in Tahoe together that weekend) and a few friends and coworkers.

[jillywilly]

Feb 4, 2016 13:47:34 GMT -5 Kristykristyleelee said:

I don't have a kid in DC, so I am not sure I have a real perspective to comment from. But I would def not expect babies to exchange Valentines Day cards. Like...WTF will a baby do with that? Anyways...If I got a note from the DC...I probably would either ignore it, or tell the teacher I am not bringing anything in. Like...it's not like the other babies in the class will know that your baby didn't bring in a Valentines Day card for them? This seems like it is solely for the ...teachers maybe? I am going to assume the other parents don't want to participate either. Like are they going to sit down and read the cards? Waste of time and money.

^^Just realized that sounds pretty bah-humbug but this really does not make sense to me to do for babies.

Actually, I just realized, DS would LOVE if his class did Valentines. Kid loves eating paper.

[Bluedaisy]

jillywilly, yup my kid loves it when you sit him on the couch on a stack of flyers/newpapers and let him rip and tear but it always ends rather quickly because he shoves it all in his mouth.

[baytosa2013]

I'm not doing anything for the babies but I will do something card related for DH and for the teachers I am just going to do this because I happen to know that at least one of the 3 is pretty health conscious and one of the moms brings in some form of cake EVERY GODDAMN DAY!


ETA: just doing the skewers because cute and easy

[Widget123]

Feb 4, 2016 13:46:20 GMT -5 alayne926 said:

I'm not doing anything for S's class, but for DS, we're doing Paw Patrol cards and a pack of fruit snacks. I'll probably get the teachers some candy or something....if I'm motivated next week.

+1  Didn't do anything for DD for the prior years at daycare but we are going to do something for her this year because they did it in her class last year and we didn't know until it was too late. (Part of it was confusion because they never call holidays by their real names.)  Cheap Frozen Valentines with a lollypop and taping the gummy Frozen bracelets to it.  I know the only thing DD is going to care about is whatever snacks, stickers, etc. is attached to the Valentines.

For LO since he is too young to be interested in that kind of stuff I am doing nothing.

ETA- If I was going to put more effort into it, I saw someone post a pic with ring pops attached to cards with a cute saying... but still not the kind of thing I would do for babies.

[billyhorrible]

LBB wasn't in school for his first Valentine's Day, but for his second, when he was 16 months I made heart shaped crayons for all the kids in his class. I don't usually send in the typical card - because really in daycare/preschool the kids usually can't read them/don't care. Instead I send in non-candy food. Like last year was goldfish crackers in a bag that said "I'm so glad you're in my school." This year he wants to do these with applesauce:



BH is the only baby at his daycare.  The rest of them are toddlers/preschoolers so I'll be sending something in for the kids there too.  Probably this:


But this all goes to the same idea in my family that Valentine's Day isn't about romantic love, just appreciating all the people who mean something to you.