Kids Valentine's Day Party Games
By Guest Author: Carrie Sever
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Yes mi amor, it’s that time again! Love is in the air, everything is red and pink, lots and lots of chocolates and filling out valentine cards. It’s a time when kids learn about loving one another. Whether at school, church or home, every child should experience a Valentine’s Day party. With decorations being as simple as anything with hearts, flowers or being red and pink. What better way to get it going than some fun, love filled games?
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Kids Valentine's Day Party Games
Valentine Bingo
This game requires a little more work than most but is definitely fun
for the little ones. Cut out enough cards so that each child will get one. Now
draw at least twenty squares on the cards. In each square, you are going to
want to put an image that has to do with Valentine’s Day. For example, a heart,
cupcake, cupid, candy, flower, lovebird…etc., will work. Make sure to make a
copy of the image on a small square to use as your calling cards later. Give
each child a small box of candy hearts or other candy, as markers. Mix the
calling cards in a bowl and let the fun begin. Everyone wins in this game
because they keep the candy afterwards.
Kids Valentine's Day Party Games
Pin the Heart on Cupid
You will need to print out a large image of Cupid or draw one to hang on
the wall. Make sure to leave a blank heart on his chest. Cut out a heart for
each child participating, felt works well for this and is cheap and easy to
work with. Put a piece of double sided tape on the back of each heart. You will
need a piece of cloth to tie over the eyes or a blindfold. Have the children
step u one by one and spin them in a circle and let them try to pin the heart
on cupid. The closest to his heart wins.
Kids Valentine's Day Party Games
Love Thy Neighbor
This game is good for teaching children what it means to be kind to one
another and how something like a small compliment can make someone smile. Have
the children gather in a circle and give each one a piece of paper and a
writing utensil. Tell the children to write something nice about the person to
their right. Once they are done, they have to pass the note to their neighbor
and they can read it then or take it home with them.
Kids Valentine's Day Party Games
Puzzled
Cut out several hearts using construction paper. Now you will use different cutting patterns to cut each heart in half. Mix the halved hearts in a bowl. Have each child draw a heart from the bowl. Now they have to find their other half as fast as they can by matching up the hearts.
Kids Valentine's Day Party Games
Heart Beat
You don’t have to have rhythm for this game but you will need speed.
Prepare a radio or Ipod to play some upbeat music the children will enjoy
getting goofy to. Cut out and tape large hearts on the floor, spread them out.
Put enough so that each child has one to stand on. You will start the music and
the children will dance around the room. When you suddenly stop the music,
everyone has to be on a heart. The last to get to a heart is out, have them
remove one heart as they leave the game. So they don’t feel left out you can
award them with a small piece of candy or as master of the music. Continue play
until one is left and they are the winner.
Kids Valentine's Day Party Games
Cup of Love Relay
You will need to have paper cups, plenty of candy and two small bowls
for this one. Have the children separate into two teams. Each team gets a paper
cup. Have each teams bowl across the
room on a table. The object of the game is to fill the bowl up as much as
possible in three minutes or less (you can adjust the time to suit the ages and
numbers of the children playing). The teams will one by one fill the cup up
with candy and balance it on their head while crossing the room to fill the
bowl. After one child makes it to the bowl without spilling the candy, they
will run back and tag the next person to go. If they drop the candy, they have
to start over. The team with the most candy wins.
Kids Valentine's Day Party Games
Cootie Bug
I remember when I was little, thinking all boys had the cooties and all
the boys thought girls had cooties. In this game, you will need some valentine
themed stickers. If you can find ones of love bugs it makes for more fun. As
the children arrive, occasionally put a sticker on one of them without them
knowing, preferably somewhere they can’t see.
At some point early in the party tell the kids that there is so much
love in the room that some of them have the cooties! The only way for them to
get rid of the cooties is to help one another find the cootie bug on them. Once
found they have to remove the sticker and spin in a circle while saying
“circle-circle, dot-dot, now I’ve got the cootie shot!” You can continue this
game throughout the party by randomly putting stickers on the kids until
everyone has had their cootie shot.
Kids Valentine's Day Party Games
Who's Cupid?
Draw hearts on little pieces of paper and place them in a hat or bowl.
On one piece of the paper draw a ‘C’. This is the cupid card. Have each child
pull from the hat or bowl and keep quiet about what they got. Explain that
whatever child gets the ‘C’ is cupid. They all have to shake one another’s
hands and cupid is to secretly tickle the persons palm when they shake hands.
That child will quietly go sit down. Everyone will try to guess who cupid is
before he shakes their hand and they are out. If someone guesses correctly you
can award them something small. This game is quite fun and can be played continuously
without striking the boredom nerve in the little ones.
Kids Valentine's Day Party Games
My Other Half
Think of several items that have a pair. For example, peanut butter and
jelly, cookies and milk or ketchup and mustard would work. You will need to
write down one word from each pair on a large piece of paper or poster boards.
Now have the children get into groups. Give each group a piece of paper and a
writing utensil. Set three minutes on the clock and tell them to write down the
pair to each word on the board. The team with the most correct match-ups wins.
Kids Valentine's Day Party Games
Heart Hop
Have a couple of balloons filled with air, if you can find heart shaped
ones it would be even better. Have the children divide into teams. The object
of this game is to put the balloon in between your knees and make it across the
room and back without dropping or popping it. Once they make it back to their
team they have to tag the next person and it’s their turn. The first team to
have everyone complete the heart hop, wins. This makes for good exercise and
fun.
