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On this page you will find a number of activities you and your children can do with the Valentine's Day theme in mind. On this page you can find the following sections of fun activities:
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A Heavenly Valentine's Day Card
Materials:
- Sheets of red, pink or blue construction paper
- a package of red or white lace doilies
- a favorite picture from a mag or-
- a recycled Valentine's card from last year
- stamps or stickers
- glitter pens
- glue
- Safe scissors
Instructions:
- Take your piece of colored paper and fold it in half.
- Take a lace doilie. Cut out the very center of the heart on the doilie, leaving the lace edges intact.
- Glue the doilie to the very center of the outside of your card. Now, take your scizzors and open up a heartshaped hole in the center of the glued doilie.
- Glue your a favorite picture from a mag or a picture of you, or a recycled Valentine's card from last year on the inside page of the card so it shows through the hole in the lace doilie on the outside.
- Now, use stamps or stickers and glitter glue to personalize your card.
- If this is a party invitation, write the guests name on the outside of the card with the marker. On this inside, write the date of the party, the time the party will be held, your address, and a phone number to RSVP.
Jello Valentine's day Card
Materials:
- Construction Paper
- Glue
- Unsweetened Jello
- Crayons or Markers
Instructions:
- Fold a piece of construction paper in half to form a card. Write a message on the inside. On the outside, front cover of your card, draw hearts or other simple designs. Outline your heart or design with glue and then sprinkle the jello on the glue until the glue is covered. Set aside to dry. Once your glue is dry shake of the extra jello and you have a bright, sweet-smelling card.
Photo Message Valentine
Materials:
- Construction Paper
- Glue
- Photo
- Crayons or Markers
Instructions:
- Fold a piece of construction paper in half to form a card. Write a message on the inside.
- Make a sign on another piece of paper. Using large writing, make it a message to your valentine. Something as simple as "I love You" will work. Have someone take a picture of you holding the sign. Either make this soon enough before Valentine's Day that you have time to develop the film, or use a polaroid camera.
- Cut out a large heart for the front of your card. You will want it big enough to have room to cut out the center of the heart and frame your picture with it. Glue your picture on the front of the card, and then glue the heart frame over that.
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Valentine Animals
Looking for a quick Valentine's Day activity? Valentine animals are fun and can be done at any age. Have the students make a bunch of valentine hearts of different sizes and colors. Paste them together to create a real or imagined animal. Hearts are used for the head, body, legs, tail, ears, etc. I've done this with 7-12 year olds. The animals can be placed on a backdrop or stand alone. It also makes a good big buddy-little buddy activity. Let the kids create. ( Butterflies and birds are easy for the little ones.)
Valentine Mouse
Materials:
- red & pink construction paper
- scissors
- stapler
- black marker
- white glue
- flat lollipop
Instructions:
- Fold a piece of red construction paper and cut a half heart about 3 1/2 inches high on the fold. Leave the heart folded to form the body of the mouse.
- Cut a smaller heart from the red paper for the head of the mouse.
- Cut a slit about halfway up from the point of the heart.
- Wrap two sides of the slit around to form a cone nose and staple them in place.
- Use a black marker to draw eyes and a nose.
- Staple the head to the pointed end of the heart body.
- Staple the rounded end of the body so that it forms a pocket.
- Cut a tiny heart from red paper. Write PULL on the heart and glue it to the stick end of the lollipop.
- Cut a heart from the pink paper to cover the lollipop. Write your valentine message on this heart and glue it over the wrapper.
- Tuck the lollipop into the body of the mouse so that the stick end is sticking out to form the tail of the mouse.
- Make a mouse for each of your friends.
Valentine Puppet
Materials:
- red construction paper
- scissors
- white glue
- four large rubber bands
- newspaper to work on
- markers
Instructions:
- Cut two hearts the same size from red construction paper. Make them bigger than your hand.
- Cut four 1-inch hearts from the red paper for the puppet's hands and feet.
- Cut each of the rubber bands so that they form long elastic strings.
- Glue the rubber bands to the sides and bottom of one of the large hearts to form the arms and legs of the puppet.
- Glue the tops of the two large hearts together with the ends of the rubber bands between them. Leave the bottom part open to slip your hand in.
- Glue a small heart to the end of each elastic arm and leg.
- When the puppet is completely dry draw on a face with markers.
- This happy heart puppet loves to swing its arms and legs around.
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Romantic Rocks
This activity, which brings the family outside for fresh air, can become downright obsessive. Search for heart-shaped rocks in the rockiest places near you: a stream bank, a driveway, the parking lot. They don't have to be perfect, as long as they have the two telltale lobes of a heart and some sort of point at the bottom. Then set everyone to work painting the rocks.
Valentine "Conversation" Walk
The cake walk game with a Valentine's Day twist! In case you don't know or remember, this is the cake walk. Cut numbers out of construction paper and place them on the floor (equal to the number of children participating). Then, you play some music while the children walk around the numbers on the floor. When the music stops, every child stands on a number. The leader then calls out a number and whoever is standing on that number wins! The twist is that you place cut out hearts with conversation messages around in a circle on the floor and call out the messages instead of numbers. Play silly romantic tunes for the music. A fun song to use is Alfalfa's version of "I'm In the Mood For Love" from the movie "The Little Rascals". Boxes of conversation hearts are inexpensive and make great Valentines Day prizes for large groups (or consolation prizes so nobody feels left out)!
Hearts
Remember that card game where you either avoid winning any hearts or "shoot the moon" and collect all of them? Hearts is a great one for today. If you don't already know how to play it, you can find directions on the
Card Games
site.
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