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Valentine's Day crackers

In every family, we love each other, but we never say it enough!

Here's a craft idea to do on Sunday the 13th, for example, or before if you wish, to please those you love and have a little fun!

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You will need:

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- Empty toilet paper rolls

- Various gift wraps

- Mini cards and envelopes or paper for messages

- Tissue paper

- Scissors and tape

- Mini gifts like our organic cotton handkerchiefs or our hair clips!

- Confetti

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How to proceed:

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Cover the rolls with gift wrap, extending 7 cm beyond each side.

Tape the gift wrap and make fringes at both ends, leaving 2cm near the edge of each roll to better close them.

Write short messages, draw pictures or other things on small cards.

Put them in the crackers along with the confetti and hair clips or tissues or other mini gift.

Tie the crackers closed with a thin, flexible string.

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The parade of hearts

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Create a pretty ephemeral decoration with tissue paper that will delight children!

Fold the paper into even 4cm accordion folds.

Draw half a heart, making sure that the outer part touches the edge of the fold by 2 cm to avoid cutting it and to link the hearts together.

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Cut and unfold!

The children will be delighted!

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The branches to be "forced" inside

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Nature lovers and those impatient for spring have always known this technique to accelerate the flowering of shrub branches indoors!

Pick a branch of prunus, forsythia, wild cherry, hawthorn or hazel and put it in a large vase filled with water.

The graphic beauty of the bare branch will soon be followed by a lovely, poetic blossoming that is so pleasing to see.

Happy February to all!