Butterfly Valentines with lollipops
Valentine Flowers with lollipops
Cut 4 identical hearts out of colored cardstock. Write the child's name and/or a message on the hearts. Poke lollipop through and secure with tape on the underside.
String of Hearts
Similar to gingerbread man chain, make a chain of hearts and glue on/draw letters for a message.
You Rule Valentine
You Rule Valentine attached to a ruler.http://familyfun.go.com/valentines-day/valentines-day-cards/best-valentines-day-cards-834796/#You Rule!;13
Lacing Hearts (like stocking)
You make my heart glow Valentine
\(heart attaached to a glow stick made into cupid's arrow)
Text Message Valentine
Make card stock phone. Glue dots candy on and write message on screen. Ipod valentine
http://familyfun.go.com/valentines-day/valentines-day-cards/best-valentines-day-cards-834796/#Rock Candy;31
Peekaboo Valentine
Valentine Food Ideas
Rice Krispie treat hearts.
Start to make rice krispie treats per the recipe on the box, but DOUBLE the amount of butter.Trust me. If you don't, they will be rock hard within half an hour. Add a few drops of red food coloring to the marshmallow-butter mix and stir. Add in the rice krispies. Remove from heat and stir together.
Working on a piece of wax paper, press the hot rice krispie mix into a heart cookie cutter. Let cool.
Valentines Quesadillas
Valentines Pizza
Shape pizza dough into heart shapes, top with sauce and cheese and bake, as normal.
Valentines Ravioli
You can find heart-shaped ravioli at Costco.
Valentines eggs and toast
Put a heart shaped cookie cutter in the frying pan (if it's metal and not plastic) and crack an egg into it and fry as normal.
Use a heart shaped cookie cutter to make heart toast.
Valentines Pancakes
You can also use the heart cookie cutter to cut heart shapes out of round pancakes.
Heart sandwiches
Decorations
Glue pretty scrapbook paper to cardstock and cut into heart shapes. (Use a glue stick or rubber cement. Other glues will make the paper wrinkly). Hole punch and hang from ribbons.
Or hang cut up hearts from your chandelier.
Valentines Games or Activities
Alphabet Hearts
Print out each letter of the alphabet on cardstock and cut into heart shapes. You can also create a heart shape with a letter inside using "Paint" on your computer and then cut out the heart shapes. (This is the method I used.)
Hide the hearts around your house or around one room and have the kids go on a "heart hunt." After all the hearts have been found, have the kids work together to put them in alphabetical order.
You've Got Mail
I found this off of this cute blog....http://darcidowdle.typepad.com/my-blog/2011/02/its-all-about-love-day-five.html
You've got Mail.
Create a post office in your home a week or so before Valentine's day. Set out the mail boxes.pails along with some stickers and paper and the family writes little notes of LOVE, thanks for a kind deed, or something we noticed that was great, to slip into that siblings or parents' mailbox. .
You've got Mail.
Create a post office in your home a week or so before Valentine's day. Set out the mail boxes.pails along with some stickers and paper and the family writes little notes of LOVE, thanks for a kind deed, or something we noticed that was great, to slip into that siblings or parents' mailbox. .
This is a game I came up with to play during Ty's classroom Valentines party last year. The kids absolutely loved it and it's now a family favorite in February. If you are in charge of a game for a classroom party, this is what you'll need.
1 box of wide straws. (the basic grocery store straw with stripes.)
I box of Q-tips
2 large bowls (heart shaped are cute, any dollar store has plastic heart shaped bowls right now)
Masking tape
Divide the group, or family up into teams. Place a heart shaped bowl in front of each team and place some tape about 2 feet back from each teams bowl. Each team member needs a straw and the team needs a large pile of arrows (Q-tips). Tell the "Cupids" they have one minute to get as many "arrows" into their heart as possible. To do this you must place the straw in your mouth, load it with an "arrow," and then blow the "arrow" out the end of the straw towards the heart bowl. The team with the most arrows through the heart wins.
Broken Heart Hunt
Divide class into 4 groups. Group will be assigned a color.
Take red, pink, white, and purple paper hearts of different
sizes. Then cut each heart into four pieces and scatter these all over the
room, on the floor, chairs, tables, etc.
When you yell “GO”
each team runs around and collects their color pieces. Then each team
needs to put all their pieces together.
The team that finishes first yells “DONE” and wins!
Or if we want to add an element of learning in, we could
have each team be assigned a NUMBER instead of a color. Divide class into 4
groups each with a number. Each heart
(regardless of color) would be cut into 4 pieces and each piece will have an
addition or subtraction problem = the team’s number. So the “8” team would have
to go find all the heart pieces (in various colors) with the sum or difference
= 8. (We would do the same with 3 other numbers.) Then each team needs to put all their pieces
together. The team that finishes first
yells “DONE” and wins!
