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" You Make My Heart Wiggle"   I made these adorable Caterpillar Pencil Favors  yesterday for my son's preschool classmates.  They will be celebrating Valentine's Day today in their class and exchanging little treasures with each other. He loves Eric Carle's Book - The Very Hungry Caterpillar so I decided to make this Caterpillar. I also added Finger LED lights as pencil toppers though that is totally optional.  The earlier post with butterflies is similar but my son was more excited about this one. Here are supplies I used for this making the Caterpillar : - Green , Red and White card stock -  Martha Stewart Scoring Board ( Its not necessary. You can do simple accordion fold but since I had to make multiples (25) it came in real handy. - 3/8 inch circle punch I used one from Recollections. You can use file or hand hole punch but I found the hole little small to insert pencils easily. If you find a  hand hole punch like this one ( 5/16 inch) it might wo...

One of my friends wanted to make handmade Valentine’s Day favors for her daughter's preschool classmates and asked me for ideas.  It had to be something her daughter could make with her.  I had seen many decorated pencil favors on Pinterest and had been meaning to try one of my own. Here is a picture of the adorable  butterfly pencil favors we (me , my friend and her sweet soon to be 5 year old daughter) made. List of Supplies used:  - Scalloped Circle punch (3.5 inches) -  Small Hearts Punch - Red, white and yellow card-stock - Scissors - Glue - Double Sided Tape - Pencils Steps for making the project:  - Punch red scalloped circles (depending on how many favors you plan to make) from the card stock using the scalloped circle punch. -  Punch lots of red hearts using heart punch. You need four for each favor. -  Cut out 1.5" x 0.5 " strips from yellow card stock. -  Fold 3" x 11" white card-stock in half and draw butterfly wings a...