Hope Your Valentine's Day Is LOADS Of Fun...

Aidan Kale's Valentine Mailbox is finished...

Materials I used...

~Two shoe boxes

~Red acrylic paint {Cardinal Red}

~Yellow acrylic paint {Daffodil Yellow}

~Big wiggly eyes

~Black acrylic paint

~Black pipe cleaners

~Hot glue gun

I turned one shoebox upside down and cut the other shoe box in half...

I glued the 3 pieces together and used the lids to cut out wheels, headlights and a grill...

I painted the wheels black and outlined them with black pipe cleaners to simulate tread...

I used two coats of red and yellow paint to cover the writing on the shoe box and for the most part that worked well...

Since I basically made this up as I went along there are a couple things {in hindsight} I would do differently...

Paint the boxes BEFORE I attach the wheels, grill and headlights and before I glue the boxes together...

I also would take off any stickers on the box {i.e. size of shoe} prior to painting...

Regardless Aidan LOVES it...

And in the end that is all that matters...

I am linking here...