Valentine Craft

I found this really cute (and free!) yarn Valentine craft in February's Family Fun edition.
Start with cutting strips of yarn into foot-long pieces. We used whatever yarn we had, so we ended up with blue and purple hearts.

Caden sat and played with the yarn the whole time...ended up being a Mommy and Daddy craft. He didn't want to get his hands all yucky!

Then, dunk the yarn into the glue:
Combine 1/4 cup of cornstarch and 1/2 cup of water in a saucepan and stir until smooth. Heat the mixture until it's thick and translucent. Allow to cool to the touch. If the mixture gets too gellike, stir in 1/4 cup of hot water. You can store this glue in the refrigerator for up to a week.
Pick up the piece and run it between thumb and forefinger to remove the excess glue.

Place a heart-shaped cookie cutter on the shiny side of a piece of parchment paper (thanks Kim for letting us borrow your papery). Lay the yarn inside the cookie cutter. Repeat with other pieces until the yarn fills the heart shape in a thin layer. With clean hands (this was Jason's part), press the yarn flat. Gently life off the cookie cutter and allow the yarn to dry hard, at least a day.

This was my favorite yarn to use.

Then when Erin and my mom came to visit this past weekend, we finished using up the glue. Erin didn't care to get her hands yucky either.

And this is what Caden was doing while we were finishing up this craft.