Valentines Day Projects

I saw this adorable Valentines gift in Family Fun magazine and we made it for Gibson's preschool teachers. We just traced his hands on foam paper, wrote "Hands down, you're the best" and attached it to some body cream I got on sale. Simple, simple!

His Valentines for his classmates are 50% done. His attention span wore out so we'll need to revisit those later in the day. We made those simple too. We cut out hearts from colored paper, stapled some heart shaped fruit snacks to them and Gibson is decorating them with stickers. 


We also made sugar cookies for Jared's office.  It may have taken all day thanks to my helpers but they're delicious and the boys loved taking them and giving them to dad and his friends at work! 

I've included the recipe below. It's from my sister-in-law Jen and it's a keeper. I even over cooked a few batches and they are still soft! Of course sugar cookies wouldn't be as good if you didn't make homemade buttercream frosting so I've posted that recipe too. It's never treated me wrong:) It's a great every occasion recipe. 

Sugar Cookies

 (this recipe is the large recipe, I halved mine today and still got almost 3 dozen large hearts)

8 1/2 Cups Flour

2 t. Baking powder

2 t. Soda

1 1/2 t. salt

1 1/2 t. nutmeg

 

Mix all dry ingredients together in a separate bowl.

 

Cream in mixer

2 cups butter

3 cups sugar

4 t. vanilla

4 eggs

 

Alternately mix in 1 1/2 cup sour cream with dry ingredients

(a little flour, a little sour cream until it is all mixed together)

 

Roll and cut out (I roll mine pretty thick)

 

Bake at 450 for 8-9 minutes.  They are just light brown around the edges when they are done.

Buttercream Frosting

2 cups butter softened

3 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1-2 tsp vanilla

3-4 tsp whipping cream {add more until you get desired consistency} 

Mix until smooth and creamy.