You’ll be “nuts and bolts” about this B-Crafty idea, “Robot Valentine”. B-Crafty simply wrapped a mini box of raisins and added a few touches for this clever and unique Valentine.
Issue #165
Occasion: Valentine’s Day
Category: Valentine
Materials:
- Mini box of raisins (or any small box of candy)
- Aluminum foil piece measuring 4 ½ X 2 ¾
- Clear scotch tape or packaging tape
- Piece of light weight cardboard to cut the mouth stencil
- Black Sharpie
- Two wiggle eyes (10 mm)
- Red or pink pipe cleaner (piece cut 3 ½ inches
- Heart sticker or heart jewel stick on (red or pink)
- Two Heart shaped beads (red or pink)
- Hot Glue
- Slip of white paper with this message “I am NUTS & BOLTS about you!”
- Cellophane bag and Valentine ribbon (optional)
Instructions:
- Wrap the raisin box in the piece of aluminum like you would wrap a package securing it with clear tape
- Cut the cardboard mouth stencil the 1 7/8 wide by 1 inch high. The mouth line looks like this “`\_________/“`
- Line the mouth stencil up with the edges of the wrapped box and draw the mouth line with the Sharpie
- Affix the two eyes with the hot glue
- Affix the beads on each side of the box near the top
- Bend the pipe cleaner with a ¼ base to start then like an antennae making a heart shape at the top
- With glue affix the sticker or jewel on the top of the pipe cleaner heart shape
- Affix pipe cleaner onto the top of the wrapped box
- Place the robot with the Valentine message in the cellophane bag and tie with a festive ribbon
B-Crafty Tip: When you are drawing the mouth by tracing the edge of the mouth stencil, draw from the middle out otherwise the aluminum foil with crease and bubble.
B Crafty 
Hello BetsyI’m looking forward to our lunch tomorrow at 11:45 at Udo’s.Love,Pat
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