Never Pay A Lot For Kid's Valentine's Day Cards
Perhaps an entire generation felt so sorry for Charlie Brown never getting a Valentine through fifty years or more of Peanut comic strips. In response, small and extremely cheap boxes of kid's Valentine's Day cards were made. In this way, every kid that went to a school or church or other institution was assured of getting at least Valentine's Day card. No one would have to suffer like the fictional Charlie Brown ever again.
Cheaper By The Hundreds
If you go to any "dollar store" (called "pound shops" in England), any drug store, supermarket or department store beginning on New Year's Day (and sometimes earlier), you will be able to find aisles full of extremely cheap kid's Valentine's Day cards. Amounts of kid's Valentine's Day cards in the boxes vary. Since they are so small, you can easily pick up a couple of hundred for a few dollars.
These Valentines are about the size of a credit card or less, that usually come with tiny envelopes. The front contains a cheesy but cute image of a cartoon character or a generic animal, while the back contains areas to place the names of the giver and receiver. They are flimsy and easily destroyed. But that's not the point with kid's Valentine's Day cards. They just want to get something on Valentine's Day - they don't care what.
Free Online Cards
Perhaps you only need a few kids' Valentine's Day cards instead of hundreds. You only need to send a couple out to neighborhood kids or kids you have to baby-sit on Valentine's Day, for example. In that case, buying a box of hundreds of tiny kid's Valentine's Day cards don't make much sense. But if you have access to the Internet and a printer, you're good to go.
Go to a website called DLTK Holidays.com and you will find free kids' Valentine's Day cards to print out in cute designs. You can only print out two at a time, so it is not cost effective to use this free site if you have several dozen cards to get. The cost of printer ink and paper will far exceed any savings you might get on not buying boxed cards.
If you want to get even more economical than that, make your kids make their own darn kids' Valentine's Day cards. Give them construction paper and crayons or old magazines they can cut up. Tell them about Charlie Brown to get them inspired.
