Thank You's For The Teachers

My son is in pre-school part time, so we wanted to make something for his teachers. J. was very excited to make something with his hands! We decided to use Jar Mugs (so you could see through what's inside and also drink from), sugar hearts and herbal tea. 

It took us a couple of days to figure out the right consistency for the sugar and the time for drying. By the end it turned out to be so easy to fix and so fast to dry - I could go on and on molding sugar hearts!

So, the consistency - DO NOT melt the sugar! That was our first mistake :) 
Add little drops of water, a drop at the time, and keep mixing until sugar is the same consistency as the snow! If you can pile it up in the middle of your bowl and it doesn't fall apart - you are done. 

Then we used our heart shaped ice cube tray, like this one: 

Pat sugar into each space tightly. 

Set it out to dry, either over night, or just turn your oven on and set the ice cube tray on top of the stove where it's warm. It dried this way in 10 -15 min! 

When dry, don't just flip the tray over - it will break sugar hearts as they fall out of the tray. Put a plate over the trays and gently turn it upside down, making hearts fall out of trays into the plate on their own. 

Here our hearts: 

I had some felt in appropriate Autumn colors and cut out squares and leaves. 

Used scrapbook paper and our printer to make these: 

 Here is our finished project: