Valentine’s Day is February 14th!
Au Pairs give loving care to their host families every day. Au Pair in America has provided 27 years as the world’s most experienced intercultural childcare program.
Au pairs become full-fledged family members, sharing a cultural exchange experience that often leads to a lasting relationship with the host family.
Au Pairs come to the USA for cultural exchange and to provide childcare to busy families. They stay for one year and then have the option to extend for a second year. Au Pairs are 18 to 26 years old when they arrive in the USA. Please check out www.aupairinamerica.com for more information!
Au Pairs will be making Valentine cards with their host children. Here’s how:
What you’ll need:
- 8.5 x 11 construction paper or card stock in various colors and/or patterns
- Valentine and/or heart stickers
- Scissors
- Pinking shears (optional)
- Glue stick or white craft or school glue
- Glitter (pink, red, white)
How to make it:
- Begin by cutting a piece of construction paper or card stock into four equal pieces.
- Fold quartered paper in half to make a card.
- For the easiest version, appropriate for preschoolers, use stickers to decorate or cut out hearts from a different color of construction paper or card stock to glue onto your cards. Experiment with different patterns, florals look great contrasted with stripes on a solid background.
- Younger children love glitter! Use a bottle of glue to “draw” on a heart or phrase (such as “Be Mine”). Sprinkle glue generously with pink, red or white glitter and let dry over night. Tap off excess glitter when completely dry.
- For the older set, let them use pinking sheers to cut out heart shapes and glue onto cards. Again, use contrasting patterns and colors to create a charming design.
- Once glue is dry, cards may curl up a little. Place cards between the pages of a heavy cookbook or phone book and leave over night.
The Suffolk County Cluster of Au Pair in America has entered the Scarecrow Contest in Stony Brook Village. The au pair scarecrow and her host baby scarecrow are dressed all in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
This past Saturday, some au pairs from the Suffolk County Cluster of Au Pair in America volunteered at the Clubhouse of Suffolk Fundraiser. The Clubhouse helps people struggling with mental illness, many of them returning veterans with PTSD. The Au Pairs ran the children’s activities at the Clubhouse Chili Cook Off fundraiser.
The au pairs organized childrens games, crafts, and face painting. They applied Halloween and Global Awareness Tattoos to the children’s faces and hands. They ran a sack race, helped the kids with 2 pinatas and then led the kids in a Halloween Costume Parade. The best costume won a family 4 pack to Harbes Farm Fall Family Fun. 
A lucky family won a gift basket filled with Halloween party supplies and a gift certificate worth $1200 off a year’s program fees for Au Pair in America!!!
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