What a cute bouquet that your child can do for a center peice. Again, I have to thank my daughter's teacher for this one, it's lovely.

You'll need:

• Soup can, cleaned
• Tissue paper; valentine colors
• 4 pipe cleaners, valentines colors
• Construction paper, red, white, pink
• Paint, red
• Makers, crayons, colored pencils
• Scissors
• Scotch tape
• Paper plate
• Ball of clay or play dough

1. Cut out four hearts, print I Love You on three separate hearts.
2. Put a dap of red paint on a paper plate. Have the child dip their thumbprint in the red paint. Then have him/her make his/her print on the forth heart.
3. Cut a piece of white construction paper to cover the can.
4. Print "Thumb-ody loves you!' on it. Have the child place his/her thumb prints on it. us glue to cover the can with the paper after the thumb prints have dried.
5. Tape the hearts onto the pipe cleaners.
6. Put the tissue paper inside the can with ends sticking out for a nice effect.
7. Stick the ends of the pipe cleaners into the ball of clay so that it reads "I love you".
8. Place the ball of clay in the bottom of the can.