{"id":626,"date":"2024-01-26T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=626"},"modified":"2024-01-26T12:25:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:25:02","slug":"valentines-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/valentines-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/wrapped-vday-728x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"wrapped valentines gifts for kids\" class=\"wp-image-623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/wrapped-vday-728x1024.jpeg 728w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/wrapped-vday-213x300.jpeg 213w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/wrapped-vday-768x1080.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/wrapped-vday-1092x1536.jpeg 1092w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/wrapped-vday-1456x2048.jpeg 1456w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/wrapped-vday-scaled.jpeg 1820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This year I&#8217;m giving my kids wrapped gifts instead of a Valentine&#8217;s basket.  I tend to go a little overboard when I have a basket to fill, so this was my attempt to scale back this year.  Each of my kids is getting a few gifts geared toward their special interests &#8211; frozen for my daughter and vehicles and farms for my son.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used reusable wrapping for a couple reasons.  Obviously it&#8217;s best to reduce waste, but I also find these wrapping cloths (from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sourismini.com\/en\">Souris Mini<\/a>) are super easy and fast to wrap with.  These cloths are technically from Christmas, but I think they work for Valentines&#8217;s Day too.  The pink gifts are wrapped in Sarah&#8217;s Silks from our basket of silks and cloths in the playroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s inside the gifts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5 Year Old Girl<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Disney Frozen Doll (Costco)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frozen Coding Kit (Dollarama)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flubby does NOT like Valentine&#8217;s Day book<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chocolates (a few)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/evie-vday-847x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"5 year old girl valentine's day gifts\" class=\"wp-image-624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/evie-vday-847x1024.jpeg 847w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/evie-vday-248x300.jpeg 248w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/evie-vday-768x929.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/evie-vday-1270x1536.jpeg 1270w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/evie-vday-1694x2048.jpeg 1694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3 Year Old Boy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Brio airplane (from a store that had a closing sale)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tara Treasures felt Barn Bag (<a href=\"https:\/\/shopmymyandme.ca\">Mymy and Me<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Farm Animal Play Pieces (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeyespyclub.com\">Eye Spy Club<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Llama Llama I love you book<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chocolates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/finn-vday-1024x687.jpeg\" alt=\"3 year old boy Valentine's gifts\" class=\"wp-image-625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/finn-vday-1024x687.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/finn-vday-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/finn-vday-768x516.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/finn-vday-1536x1031.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/finn-vday-2048x1375.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I&#8217;m giving my kids wrapped gifts instead of a Valentine&#8217;s basket. I tend to go a little overboard when I have a basket to fill, so this was my attempt to scale back this year. Each of my kids is getting a few gifts geared toward their special interests &#8211; frozen for my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/valentines-gifts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Valentine&#8217;s Gifts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,38],"tags":[94,93],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-gifts","tag-kidsvalentinesday","tag-kidsvalentinesgifts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}