Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Valentine's Box

What do kids do when their parents don't help them out?! I'll never know, but I am so grateful that I can help my kids and that they have the best dad in the world who is creative and willing to do the impossible!!

Every year for Valentine's Day Ty's school has a Valentine Box decorating contest. It's fun to get the creative juices flowing and create something that is unique. Well this year Ty wanted to make a T-rex box! I thought it would be way too hard and complicated and told Ty "Why not just put a few dinosaur stickers on a box!" Well, I asked Nate to give Ty a hand with his box one night while I was out, and when I returned I found the boys designing and making this incredible beast!

This is the book that inspired the T-rex box! This is one of Ty's favorite books and they used the pictures to make the design of the head.

It actually turned out to be a beast because of the time it took, but I'm very thankful that Nate would work so hard in helping Ty feel sooo good about his Valentine's Day Box!

Ty's box opens up and you put the Valentine inside the mouth! Watch out! You don't want to get bitten by this monster!!

4 comments:

Danielle said...

Sooo cute! What a good dad!

Moores said...

I was really impressed with the way the box opened and closed. Good job guys!

Emily said...

Awesome box, what a lucky boy to have such great parents!

Shirlee Entzel said...

WOW! What an allstar dad! TOO CUTE! Ty looks very happy and SO proud!