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Kid's Valentine Party!
If you are hosting a Valentine's Day party for your kid's friends, we have just the right ideas and products to make the celebration sweet and adorable!
Valentine's Day Party Decorations Valentine's Day Party Activities Valentine's Day Party Food and Cake Ideas Valentine's Day Crafts and Activities
Valentine's Day Invitations
Cut a large heart shape out of a piece of red poster board. Write the party information on the front, then cut it into pieces, making a jigsaw puzzle. Put the puzzle pieces in an envelope and mail. When your guests put the pieces together, the message can be read!
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Blow up a large pink or red balloon. With black sharpie, write your party details on the balloon and wait for it to dry. Then, deflate the balloon and mailto your guest. They will have to blow up the balloon to get the party details!
Kid's Valentines Party DecorationsDecorate your party room in pinks and/or reds and white.
You could also go for the candy conversation hearts decorations.
Purchase a large styrofoam cone and stick red, pink, and white lollipops into it. Tie each lollipop with a red ribbon before placing on the cone. This serves as a cute decoration and an easy way to give treats out to the kids at the end of the party!
The best way to cover your tables when kids are going to present is with Paper Table Covers. Nothing is more convenient and it looks great in either pink or red! Use Candy Heart Confetti to brighten up the table and tie together all of the decorations!
Kid's Valentine Party Activities
Kids absolutely love games and crafts that relate to love, hearts, and candy! Here are a few ideas that could be done either in a classroom setting or at home with your own kids!
Musical Hearts Tape large red Die Cut Hearts to the floor, one for each child. Every child begins by standing on a heart. Start the music and have the children walk around the room. When the music stops they need to stand on a heart or they are out. Remove one heart after each musical segment.
Mirror Candy Relay Divide the group into teams. The first child on each team holds a cup on their head. The child looks into the mirror that is held by another team member (or it can be mounted on the wall) and tries to fill their cup with Valentine candy. When the cup is filled, they dump the candy back in the bowl and pass the cup to the next person. The first team that finishes filling their cups wins!
Sweet Fortune This game is a fun version of fortune-telling that involves a big bowl of Valentine candy! Have your guests grab a small handful of candy from the bowl and interpret their fortune according to the list below. The more of each color, the greater the influence will be in your life. The great part of this game is if you don't like your fortune, eat it up and try your luck again! Red: Love Pink: Friendship White: Popularity and Power Purple: Loneliness Green: Wishes - For each green one, you can make a wish that will come true! Blue: Wealth Valentine Scramble See how many words the guests can make out of the words "Valentine's Day" in five minutes.
Matchmaker Memory Game Sit in a circle and have each player take five conversation hearts. One person starts a story with a few lines using all of the words on their hearts. The next person in the circle continues the story using their words. Each player must use all the heart words in their lines. Once you have gone around the whole circle, you can eat your words at the end!
Pass The Heart:
Make Valentine's Day Pins Plaster of Paris Water Measuring cup with a pour spout Mixing spoon Plastic heart shaped candy mold Pin backs Paint Paintbrushes Clear spray paint Follow the instructions on the back of the plaster of Paris carton and prepare a small portion at a time. 1. Pour the mixture into the heart-shaped candy mold but do not over fill. 2. As soon as you fill one heart, place a pin back into the plaster of Paris. Hold until it stands freely. 3. Let dry overnight. Pop out the pins when dry and let your children paint them. When the paint is dry, an adult can spray a glossy clear paint on the pin to finish. Make Your Own Valentines Have a table set up for the kids to make their own valentines. Include lots of pink and red paper, doilies, markers, glitter, small heart shaped candies, stickers, and lace. Back to Valentine's Day Main page! Kid's Valentine Party Food and Cake Ideas:The key to a successful menu for a party like this is to be sure that everything you serve is very kid-friendly! Usually this means that food should stay on the simple side, nothing too gourmet! It is always fun, however, to add a bit of festive spirit into the food that you serve and it is the small touches that make the biggest impact. Here are just a couple of suggestions to make your food look even love-lier!
Use pink and red food coloring in as much food as you can! This works especially great in a variety of desserts like cake or mousse!
Cut sandwiches into hearts and X's and O's
Go to a gourmet cooking supply store and look for edible hearts and cupids to adorn your kid's favorite foods! Make easy heart-shaped cupcakes to thrill your little love bugs. Place liners in your muffin pan and fill them half way full with cake mix. Place a marble in between the liner and the pan to create the niche in the heart. Decorate them with pink frosting and heart sprinkles.
Kids love popcorn and marshmallows - combined they make a great Valentine's treat!
If you don't have a heart-shaped pan to bake a cake in, don't fret - it is simple to make one of your own! Simply bake a standard round cake as well as a square 8 x 8 cake. After they have cooled, cut the round cake in half and place each half next to two sides of the square cake to create the heart shape. Decorate it with either pink or white frosting and red hot candies! Use a cookie cutter as a guide
to frost smaller hearts around the edge.
Kid's Valentine Party Favors/PrizesHeart shaped glitter sunglasses!
Red or pink necklaces, heart shaped plush toys, boxes of candy conversation hearts, candy necklaces Red and pink pencils, Valentine's Day lollipops, red and pink boas
Valentine's Crafts and ActivitiesWhether you are organizing a party for a classroom, a birthday party centered around a Valentine theme, or hosting a Sweetheart get-together for those you hold dearest…you'll enjoy these simple but fun activities!
HEART PUZZLE WREATH OR FRAME
VALENTINE SMOOSHIES
HEARTS, HEARTS & MORE HEARTS
FUN FRAMES
LUV BUGS
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VALENTINE FUNTOOS/FINGERNAILS
SUGAR COOKIE FUN
CUPID'S CANDY CATERPILLAR
FORTUNES OF LOVE 3/4 cup egg whites
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GOODY BAGS – Check out the All Occasion Store to find goody bags in assorted sizes and colors. Let kids decorate the bags with markers, stickers, die-cut hearts, wiggle eyes, pompoms, etc.…they love to be creative! The bags can be used to take Valentine cards and treats home from the party. (Ages 2-9)
SEEDS OF FRIENDSHIP
SWEET-TOTE
Kid's Valentine Party GamesEvery February 14th, we celebrate Valentine's Day. The holiday originated from a touching love letter that St. Valentine sent to his sweetheart. If he could only see the extent to which we celebrate the holiday today…classroom parties, dances, sweetheart balls…he'd be quite impressed with himself! To pay tribute to our loved ones, and those we really like, here are a few fun game ideas:
"PIN THE KISS ON THE LIPS" - Borrowing from the concept of the tried and true game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey, we suggest a fun game of "Pin the Kiss on the Lips"! Using a large piece of red or pink poster board, draw an outline of a large pair of lips (or to make it more challenging, several little sets of lips.) Use foil wrapped Hershey's Kisses™ as the kisses, and masking tape to attach them to the board. Blindfold each participant as his/her turn arrives, spin, point in the right direction, and let the kissing begin. Everyone is a winner, as they get to eat their candy kiss regardless of where it lands! (Ages 3-12)
"BROKEN HEARTS" – Divide guests into two equal groups. Place two bags of inflated heart shaped balloons about 10-15 yards away. In our Valentine's Store, we carry candy heart balloons, red, white and pink heart shaped balloons, and Pooh Valentine heart balloons. The balloons should be overinflated to make popping easier. At the sound of a whistle, the first two relay contestants, (one from each team) run to the bag, and remove one balloon heart. Each must sit on it until it pops. Once the heart is broken, the players run back to the starting line, and tag the next player in line. The first team to complete the course wins. If you have children who are afraid of the sound of popping balloons, offer a grown-up stand-in. Not a quiet game…but a guaranteed favorite! (Ages 4-adult)
"BACKWARD VALENTINE BINGO"- Prior to your party, make a grid of nine squares on red or pink cardstock paper (like a tic-tac-toe board) for each player. Purchase enough candy hearts, so that each player can have at least 9 hearts, and the "caller" will have duplicates of each saying. Give each player 9 candy conversation hearts. To begin the game, each player puts a heart, words facing up, on each square of his or her board. The caller selects a heart, and reads it aloud. For example, the caller might pick a heart saying, "BE MINE". Any player with a "BE MINE" heart can remove that piece from his or her grid. The first player to clear a line down, across or diagonally wins the game! Play the game several times so that many guests have the opportunity to win the game – offer a replenishment of candy at some point in the game – they'll love the variety, and some of the candy will inevitably be consumed! (Reading age-age 12)
"HOW DO I LOVE THEE?" - Give each player a bag with 10 small valentine treasures in it (candy, chocolates, little favors). Have bags labeled with players' names, so they don't get mixed up. Let players know at the start of the game exactly when the game will be ending—this game can be played throughout an entire party if you so choose. The object of the game is to catch fellow players saying one of the following words or phrases:
VALENTINE, LOVE, HEART, CANDY, ROSE To help players, post the words prominently on a board where they can be seen often. If someone is caught saying one of the words on the list, that person has to give up a treasure from their stash. The player with the biggest haul of goodies at the end of the game is the winner! This game is always a big hit. (Ages 7-Adult)
"SWEET CHARADES" - Play a fun game of Charades using candy conversation hearts. Fill a bowl with candy, and have one person draw a heart from the bowl…"No way", "I'm yours", "Dear one", "Be True", etc. They act out the message written on the heart, until someone guesses the correct answer. The person who deciphers the heart is the next to draw from the bowl. A winner every time! (Ages 7-Adult)
"HAVE A HEART" – Before the party purchase two bags of candy conversation hearts. Divide your group into two teams. Players race around a specific course with a heaping pile of candy hearts, before handing them off to a teammate. Dropped candies must be retrieved before the handoff. The first team to complete the course wins. (Ages 4 to 12—you may want to give players over the age of 10 lots of additional hearts to carry to make the game more challenging)
"SWEETHEART SLURP" – Cut ten little hearts out of red or pink paper. The hearts need to be about the size of a Ritz™ cracker. Place the shapes in a pile beside a small bowl, or heart shaped candy box. Have straws available for each player, along with a stopwatch, or a watch with a second hand. Using the straw as a vacuum, each contestant tries to pick up the hearts and drop them into the bowl. The player with the fastest time wins. (Ages 5-12)
"HEARTS AFIRE!" - Using a stuffed or balloon heart as your blazingly hot heart, play this Valentine variation on the classic Hot Potato game. Have players sit in a circle, and pass the heart until the music stops. The player left holding the heart when the music stops is out. Keep passing the heart until only one player is left. (Ages 3-9)
"HEART-Y HANDOFF!" - Divide guests into two teams and have them form two lines. Blow up two of our 3-foot wide balloons (or use a standard sized balloon or a stuffed animal). At the signal to "go", the gift is to be passed from person to person. The catch is that they can use any part of their bodies except their hands. If the balloon touches the ground at any time, it must go back to the beginning of the line again. Whichever team manages to get the balloon to the end of the line first wins the game. (Ages 5-adult)
"CANDY COUNT" - Fill a glass jar with red hot hearts or conversation hearts, and let each guest guess how many hearts are in the jar. The guest with the closest guest wins the jar! If you are using this game in a classroom with younger children, it makes a terrific counting game also. Gather the children and let them help separate the candy into piles of 10. Have the entire group count the piles by 10s – educational and yummy! (Ages 4-10)
" LOVIN' SPOONFUL" – Provide one plastic spoon for each player. Divide guests into two teams, and have them form two lines. Have each player put the spoon handle into his/her mouth. To begin the game, put one candy heart into the spoon of the first person in each line. Players have to pass the heart down the line – without using their hands! If the heart falls, it goes back to the start of the line. The team that gets the heart to the end of the line first wins! (Ages 7-Adult)
PINATA FUN – Our piñatas can do double duty—They'll hang as decorations until you are ready to use them—and then the kids will have a ball catching all the goodies loaded inside. A universal favorite! (Ages 3 to 12)
Back to Valentine's Day Main page! Valentine's Day Ideas for the FamilyPrepare a special Valentine's meal for the entire family. Make it elegant or playful. For an elegant meal, bring out the good china and tablecloth and serve a special home cooked meal for the entire family. Make sure you light plenty of candles to set a festive Valentine's Day mood. For playful, serve food that is pink or red or in the shape of hearts. Some ideas are listed below:
HEART SHAPED PIZZA
HEARTS, HEARTS & MORE HEARTS
SWEET JELLO™ TREATS
RICE CRISPY POPS
CHOCOLATE DIPPED STRAWBERRIES
PINK HEART PANCAKES
ICE CREAM SUNDAE WITH SECRET MESSAGE
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Decorate the home with hearts and cupids. So often we save the Valentine's decorating to schools and businesses. Why not bring a touch of love home for Valentine's? Adorn the house in die cut heart, tissue hearts, Happy Valentine's banners and red cupids. Swag red and pink gossamer around the windows, doors and chairs. Dangle hearts and garlands from the lights and ceiling. Create the feeling of love to all that enter.
Using caution around younger children, think romance and love and light candles for all meals. Float heart candles in water or light votive candles. Have glassware candles imprinted with the family name and place them on the table and in the kitchen.
Have napkins imprinted with your family name and a big heart. Use them throughout the month of February (random acts of kindness month) to celebrate the love your family shares. The kids will love seeing their name in print.
Present each child with a valentine's balloon bouquet when they get up on Valentine's morning. Let them know how special they are to you.
Decorate a wall with a giant corrugated red heart. Have everyone's picture taken in front of the heart. Make simple Valentine's for family and friends who live far away.
Using plastic Valentine's Stadium cups, create simple treats for your family. Fill the stadium cups with candy, confetti, hearts and other small gifts. Place them at the table for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Create a "Cup of Kindness." Using corrugated paper, create a giant teacup and saucer. Using die cut hearts, fill the cups with hearts of love. Each time you see someone performing a random act of kindness, write down the act on a die cut heart and place it in the Cup of Kindness on the wall. Keep your eyes open and soon your cup will be spilling over.
Take turns being queen or king for Valentine's Day. Give everyone an opportunity to feel special. Select a rhinestone tiara with a heart (cascading heart tiara or heart tiara) and a red crown. At each meal and throughout the day announce that you have a new king or queen and transfer the crown/tiara. Whoever has the tiara/crown on gets to decide what to do, eat, watch, play etc. Keep the tiara and crown for each Valentine's Day. Back to Valentine's Day Main page!
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