VALENTINE PARTY IDEAS:
VALENTINE PARTY INVITATION IDEAS:
• Use white and red cardstock and embellish with hearts, glitter, and confetti.
• Everyone to wear a mask and theme your party accordingly. You could use a love film theme or the traditional little devil and angels.
• Have the hosting child or children create their own invitations using white cardstock and making v-shaped hearts with their own fingerprints. Use a non-toxic red stamp pad and have child ink their index fingers and join together at the bottoms and place on paper to create a 5 inch, v-shape heart. You can tie balloons or invitation to little stuffed animals and hand deliver to guests’ houses.
VALENTINE PARTY DECORATIONS:
• Cover your tables with white tablecloths and red napkins. Sprinkle heart shaped confetti and conversation hearts around table.
• Red and pink rose petals in the shape of hearts can be spread around on tables
• Floating Scented candles in a small vase placed on small square mirrors
• Place heart soaps in the kitchen and bathroom
VALENTINE PARTY BEVERAGES AND SNACKS:
• “Cupids Delight” - Cherry Float made with Cherry-7 up, vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, and a maraschino cherry on top
• Heart shaped sandwiches and cookies
• “Cup-o-Love Punch”- freeze fruit punch in heart ice or candy molds, place frozen heart shaped ice in lemon-lime soda
• Waffle cones filled with candy and wrapped with red cellophane and tied with ribbon
VALENTINE PARTY ACTIVITIES AND GAMES:
• Serve breakfast in bed for your loved one by making heart shaped pancakes.
• Treat yourself and your lover to a romantic get-away
• Mirror images- create a little love note on the bathroom mirror with red lipstick write “you’re the one I love”
• Have everyone wear a funny Valentines Day hat and give a prize for the funniest.
• Heart hunt- for little kids create a heart treasure hunt by spreading conversation hearts around the house and letting them find as many hearts as they can.
• Host a chocolate tasting party
• Grab a man- blindfold all of the women and have the men walk around them in circles. When the host/hostess says “Go”, have each woman grab a man. When all of the men have been caught, they can remove their blindfolds and see who they have chosen.
• Hot Heart- you will need a small stuffed heart and music. Have the children sit in a circle and while the music is playing they will pass the heart around to each player. Tell the children that it is hot and in order to avoid “burning” themselves, they must pass the heart quickly. Whoever is holding the heart when the music stops must leave the circle. The last child left is the winner.
• Fishing for love- have a simple fishing game where kids fish for hearts. Make 2 hearts the same size out of red cardstock and paperclip together to create a magnet for the fishing pole to grab. Create many different sizes of hearts for the kids to try to catch. You can use valentine pencils or small wooden dowel sticks for the fishing poles. Attach string to the end of the stick with a magnet at the bottom of the string.
• Impossible hearts- give each guest a red crayon and white paper. Blindfold their eyes and on the word “go” they must attempt to draw an outline of a heart and color in the heart as best they can.
• Mended hearts- take red construction paper and cut out hearts. Cut hearts in a unique way (zig zag, torn, etc…) and as each guest arrives give them half of one heart. You can use these as name tags. Later on they will be instructed to find the missing part of their heart. A prize can be given to the one that finds their match first.
VALENTINE PARTY FAVORS:
• Little sachet bags filled with red hots
• Small bottles of perfume or pink colored rose scented candles
• Heart shaped candy in little tins
• Little black book for single guests
• Heart shaped cookie cutters with a small package of sugar cookie mix
