Valentines Rocket Favors

I'm so happy to share a guest post I did over at Skip to My Lou last week

with a fun Valentines Freebie, too!

Let's face it, Valentines is pretty much for the girls. If you've got boys, you're probably searching the Valentines aisles for plain-jane commercialized Star Wars or Transformers cards to give out to classroom pals. It seems that everything cute for Valentines is pink and frilly and most definitely "pretty."

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Well, the search is over! Today I'm sharing a cute Valentine that even the boys will like. It's a rocket made from a rolo candy roll. 

Fun! This project is pretty quick and easy (my kind of project!), and I think could even be altered with rolls of life savers if you didn't want to use the rolos.

With just a few supplies, and the

FREE ROCKET ROLO PRINTABLE DOWNLOAD,

you and your son can work together to make some sweet classroom treats that he'll be proud to hand out to his best buds.

SUPPLIES:

- FREE Printable rocket craft download

- Rolo candy rolls (find them for about $.89/each in the grocery store or I've been told many Sam's stores have them $19.99 for 36 rolls)

- Photo paper or brochure paper (can use white cardstock but the photo paper will print much more vividly)

- Hot glue

- Scotch tape

- Scissors

- Orange and yellow tissue paper

Step 1:  After printing your rocket craft files onto photo paper or brochure paper, cut each of the designs out with scissors.

Step 2: Take your orange and white striped rocket piece and wrap it around one tube of rolos. Use scotch tape to secure.

Step 3: Take the blue rocket top piece and roll it into a cone shape. Hot glue it closed, or you may use scotch tape (sometimes hot glue doesn't adhere to photo paper).

Step 4:  Put a generous amount of hot glue at the top of the rolo tube and the place the blue cone on top. Hold until the glue dries.

Step 5:  Cut stacks of the yellow and orange tissue paper into triangular shapes and then cut the wider base to resemble flames. Place 2-3 sheets of your cut yellow pieces on top of 2-3 pieces of cut orange tissue and scrunch the top into a point. Place a dab of hot glue on the point and glue it to the bottom of the rolo candy cylinder. Next put another dab of glue onto the tab of the cloud cut out and glue it down at the base of the rolo candy on top of the yellow tissue paper.

Voila! Cute!

Be sure to put your child's "to" and "from" information on the back side of the clouds before you hand them out to classmates. 

And don't forget those sweet girls.... you can make them for the girls in your son's class, too.

I think those girls might be jealous if only the boys got their own rockets and rolos!

I think Life Savers rolls could be used as well as long as you cut down the pieces just a little. 

Happy Crafting! I hope your boys love their rockets!

If you love these, you might just love the Rocket Party Printables set, too! 
You can find the full ROCKET PARTY COLLECTION in my shop now.