Valentine's Mini Pencils Tutorial

Remember when I made Mini Mushroom Pencils?  I have a LOT of golf pencils left over-- and wanted to make some fun Valentine's favors.  

For this project you will need:

Golf Pencils

Wood Glue

Tiny Wood Button Caps

Paint and Paint Brush

Cup filled with sand, rice or beans

 Take your tiny pencil and glue the button cap to the top.

Then place your pencil tip side down into the cup of sand, rice, or beans until the glue dries.  I left mine overnight.

After the glue dries, paint your pencils.  I painted mine red, pink, and white.

You might want to use more than one coat of paint-- the yellow pencil paint created a funny tint on my red pencils.  After the paint is dry-- you can paint hearts, x's and o's, spell L,O,V,E, or whatever tickles your fancy on the button caps.  

Let your hearts dry and then you can tuck a few into your Valentines!

Happy painting!

xoxo,

Ashley