We live in a world with no shortage of pencils. Pencils are the new and improved participation trophy for kids. My kids bring home pencils for almost everything that happens to them.
It’s your birthday! Here’s a pencil!
It’s MY birthday! Here’s a pencil!
Welcome to the library! Here’s a pencil!
Congratulations on walking by this booth! Here’s a pencil!
It’s Tuesday! Here’s a pencil!
Your mom didn’t fill out your reading log! Here’s a pencil anyway!
If pencils were currency, we could close the wage gap. That’s all I know for sure.
Everyone has a drawer that looks like this:
The solution to all of your valentine problems lies within this drawer. There are excellent quality, perfectly unused pencils lurking in the junk drawer just waiting for their turn in the sunshine, or in this case, a chance to sit in someone else’s junk drawer for all of eternity.
Don’t go out and spend $4-$6 on a box of valentines and a bag of candy! Make your own valentines with
this printable
and a few supplies you can find in your junk drawer: pencils, scissors, and a pen.
This seems like a good time to mention that I designed this valentine. I might advocate the questionable practice of re-gifting, but I would never steal anyone’s mediocre valentine printable.
In case assembly isn’t perfectly obvious, start by printing
this
. Regular paper is fine because we all know it will be thrown out within 2 days, but if you want your valentines to look really sharp (pun intended), use cardstock.
There are four valentines on each sheet. Use a scissors or blade to cut out the triangles on each side. Sign each valentine, pop a pencil through the triangular holes, and give them all away.
All the pencils are officially someone else’s problem! (Be warned, though. Twenty per cent of valentines received by your child will include a pencil, but there will still be an overall net pencil decrease in your junk drawer.)
To review:
Print, cut, cut, sign, pencil, give.
Happy Valentines Day! Here’s a pencil!!
