We’ve all seen those little candy conversation hearts that are everywhere this time of year.  I’m not crazy about how they taste but they’re just so cute.

Since I’ve adopted a valentine’s day/candy heart theme for my upcoming RIF book distribution, I was excited to stumble on www.cryptogram.com/hearts/, a website that creates candy heart pictures that say whatever you choose to write.  I created twelve different hearts (I even used one of their anti-valentine’s day “goth” hearts just for fun), uploaded them to flickr, then used Big Huge Labs‘ mosiac maker to arrange them in one picture.  I probably didn’t really need to make the mosaic to create my poster, but it was fun anyway.  I also noticed a trading card maker on that site, too, which would be really cool for students to use for reporting on states or countries or rivers or planets… …but I digress.  I’ll try that later.

I added my RIF theme “Follow your Heart… READ!” and some clip art border and… ta da!… I have a poster for RIF that’s personalized for our school.

Candy conversation hearts are cute, but they’re even cuter when YOU get to compose the message on them.  Use them to promote whatever or whoever you want.  They’re sure to be a hit!

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