by Laura Falin posted in Life & Home

One of our favorite Valentine's Day books is My Heart is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall. It's such a creative book, filled with whimsical animals that are entirely made of heart shapes (the crab is hilarious. But then, so is the seal...and the walrus...and...) Definitely worth snuggling up under a warm blanket with the kids to read this Valentine's Day.
This card was inspired by the book...and the fact that bees just lend themselves to Valentine's Day puns.

The bee is a bunch of heart shapes -- most are even the same size so you can layer several pieces of paper on top of each other and cut them all out at once. And I realized while I was making these that I learned in the first grade to make hearts by folding a paper in half and drawing half a heart on it, then cutting...and it still remains the best way to make hearts that I know. Supplies:

construction paper (black, white, and yellow)
cardstock
gel or other decorative pens
embroidery thread and needle
pencil
scissors
glue

Instructions:
Fold cardstock in half.
Cut three equal-sized hearts out of construction paper -- one black, one white, and one yellow. Cut two smaller hearts out of the black paper for feet, and a small circle of yellow for the eye.
Take the yellow heart and cut into stripes. Glue the yellow stripes to the top half of the black heart. Glue the white heart over the top to make the bee's wings. I outlined the wings so they'd show up better in this picture, but you sho...