Review: Create Your Own Conversation Hearts

When it comes to Valentines Day–Brach’s Conversation Hearts are iconic.

I remember getting them back in “the day” at school parties.  You’d read them, trade them, and try to figure out if the messages on them actually *meant* something depending on who gave them to you.  🙂  Some people love the way they taste, some people don’t, but still everyone liked getting them.  (personally I’m only a fan of the orange and purple ones)

Walmart offered to send me the newest offering in Conversation Hearts from Brach’s–the Create Your Own Large Conversation Hearts!

It sounded intriguing, so I said yes.

When I received my box–inside was a good sized package of their large hearts-totally blank-and a special fine tip pen that writes in red food coloring:
This kit runs about $2.68 and is available at many (although not all) Walmarts.

I decided to have a little fun with the hearts.  Since my kids are OBSESSED with the video game Minecraft, I decorated one of the green hearts as a “creeper” and snuck up on them making the “ssss. sssss.” noise from the game.  They thought Mama was funny 🙂

Then we divided the hearts up and all got a chance to decorate some.  Princess (who is a truly wonderful artist already at age 11) decided to replicate the Brach’s logo–including the cherub (I’m in awe). *note: She used some other edible markers I had from another project for the yellow hair and blue eyes*

Decorating these hearts was a fun (and edible) project for the kiddos.  Of course they didn’t want to take turns with the pen (and I had to threaten anyone who mashed down hard and ruined the fine tip–even the large hearts are pretty small-so you need a fine tip to write on them).

It occurs to me that these hearts are even more fun for adults.  Let’s face it, I can think of some things that I could write on those hearts for Yankee Bill’s eyes only that would get me a chuckle or a knowing grin on Valentines Day.  I can see couples and college kids having quite a good time with these–although this being a family friendly blog I won’t go into those ideas too much–you can use your imagination.

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Disclosure: As a participant in the Walmart Moms Program, I’ve received product samples and compensation for my time and efforts in creating this post. All thoughts and opinions are my own.