A Mad Lib Valentine!

We've been busy around our place lately, mostly with the addition of a new baby! Hence, the reason why I haven't been posting. But when Thing One got a Mad Lib pad as a reward for moving up a level in his homeschool readers I thought a Mad Lib would be a perfect post for Valentine's Day.

One night at dinner we filled in the blanks to one of the Mad Libs and then read it back. Not only was it a great tool for practicing such things as adverbs and nouns it was hilarious fun. When we read a story that involved a store called "Cuties R' Us" we couldn't stop laughing. It was a great family story activity and it brought back tons of childhood memories.

I actually thought I'd write one of my own and then I stumbled across some freebies at ClassroomJr.com. It was too perfect to pass up. So click HERE and enjoy a trip down Memory Lane with your kids!

We actually printed off these three different Valentine Mad Libs and put them on cardstock and Thing One wrote a note for each of the kids in his Writing Class. They've been doing Mad Libs for fun in his class and we thought this would be a unique and easy homemade Valentine. Got to love unique and easy!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Kristen

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