VALENTINE GAMES Part 1
SUPER IDEAS FOR VALENTINES PARTIES by Danielle Roth
1. Scent fake flowers with perfumed oils (there are some great smells available) and place in your room for a long lasting aroma
2. Get inexpensive hair clips and cut out words from magazines ex. cute, classy, fun etc.... Put magazine clipping on hair clip and paint over with clear nail polish(the word or picture will stick) Do a couple of coats. let dry. For a special pizazz decorate with fake flowers,beads, glitter, rhinestones, etc.. This is a great idea for little girls... I used to love to do it!
3. For Valentines Day mobiles are a fun art project and really easy. all you need is a wire hanger, some string, scissors and construction paper. Cut out hearts, stars etc... from construction paper decorate in whatever manner you wish. Make a hole and tie a knot in the heart and connect to wire hanger. This is great because you can do all different shapes in all different sizes and arrange them whenever you want. Pictures of your friends are always fun to put in the hearts well.
4. For sleepovers making hearts on your nails with polish is always fun and coating with a layer of glitter looks cute.
5. For cooking (I'm not much of a baker) Pillsbury is the way to go. They have fun heart shape cookies that you slice and bake and decorate with frosting with cute little sayings like "kiss me" "Two hearts are better than one" etc...
GAMES MUSICAL HEARTS (Elementary)
This game is similar to musical chairs. First you must make one big red heart that a person can hold in both hands. Everyone stands in a circle. A parent, teacher, or a student then plays music (it can be any popular love song or song about friendship). As the music plays you pass the paper heart clock-wise. When the music stops the person standing on the left of the person holding the heart is "out" - he or she must exit the game. The game continues when the music begins again. The game continues until the last person remains holding the heart. Give the winner a box of candy! - Sierra (grade 4)
Valentine Secret Admirer's
This game is really silly. First everyone gets a piece of paper and a pencil. They write a secret message to somebody and then the messages are collected.(Make sure everyone puts Secret Admirer at the end!)The messages are put in a bucket or a hat. Everyone gets a message and they have to guess who wrote the message. Then switch. Whoever, gets the most guessed right wins. - Miriam O. 3rd grade
RACE THE HEART (Elementary)
This game is a fun outdoor game for a group of kids. You will need just one small paper red heart (small enough to fit into someone's closed fist). First divide everyone into two teams. Team A and Team B. Each team should then pick one person to be captain. Each team must have a home base at opposite ends of the playing fields. Be sure that you point out boundaries. The two captains meet and decide who will begin first. One team takes the paper heart and huddles (gets into a small circle) so that the captain can secretly give one person the paper heart. Since the other team is probably watching everyone may want to pretend they have the heart. Then both teams line up facing each other about four feet apart. On the word "go" by a teacher or parent the team without the heart must then chase and tag members of the other team. When tagged you stop and open your hands to reveal if you have the heart or not. If the person tagged does not have the heart he or she says, "sorry - race for the heart!" He or she then must stand in place while the tagging team seeks out other players.
The team player with the heart must run towards the opposite team's safety base. If he or she gets there safely without being tagged then their team gets a point and the game starts over. If he or she gets tagged, then the heart is given to the other team and the play begins again.
You can set the number of total points to win. Have fun! - Sierra (grade 4)
BE MY VALENTINE SMILE
This is exactly like the game, "If you love me honey, please smile!" Well, we tamed it down for GAMEKIDS! Have everyone sitting in a circle with one person being IT in the middle. The person who is IT then goes up to anyone and says, "Hi! Can you please be my valentine, please smile!" The person then must respond to it by says, "Sorry, I cannot be your valentine. I cannot smile." The person saying this cannot smile at all. If he or she does, then they become IT and have to go into the center and start the game over. The person who was IT takes the seat of the person going in! Lots of laughs!
HIDE THE HEART.
All you have to do is make some red paper hearts and hide them around the room (or classroom). Have your friends go and find them.
- April J.(age 12)
GUESS THE NAME TAG
Create some name tags with words that relate with Valentines Day. Such as hearts, flowers, red, white, pink, and love. You will then tape this tags on people's backs. But they cannot look for the names. They must not find out what word is on their tag until the game starts. Everyone goes around and gives each other clues about the "valentine word" on their backs. You can ask a person only one question at a time. The game continues until everyone has found what theirs tag says.
- April J.(age 12)
THE BIGGEST SMILE
This is not a game, but its a great group activity to see who can give the biggest smile! You can give prizes to the person with the biggest smile. You can choose one boy and one girl winner. One at a time measure people's smiles with a ruler (or measuring tape). This is fun. You can also measure the zany faces! You can take photos as you do this as people are smiling BIG!
VALENTINE COMIC STRIP MIXER
This is a fun game for either sleepovers or groups (you will need several comic strips). Cut out a comic strip. Cut out each panel. Mix them up! For this game you will need clear tape. You tape the mixed up comic panels on people's backs. One panel per person. On GO they must arrange themselves in the correct order so that the comics can be understood. Have a teacher or parent be the judge!
GUESS WHO? (Older elementary, pre-teen, teen)
This is a fun guessing game which should bring a lot of smiles. Pass out little strips of paper to everyone in your group. Have them write the most embarassing thing that may have happened to them on the piece of paper. Make sure it is not anything too gross or inappropriate. Everyone then folds up the papers small and it is collected. One by one the strips are read aloud and everyone has to guess who the person is.
BUBBLE GUM BLOW!
This is a fun game with all the candy given out at Valentines. For this game have several (probably not more than 5) people come to the front of your class or church group. Make sure they know how to blow bubbles with chewing gum. Give each a piece of wrapped chewing gum (the type which you can blow bubbles). On GO, they put the wrapped gum in their mouths and only using their tongues must unwrap the gum using no hands (with younger kids you may wish to allow them one hand), spit out the wrapper, they must chew the gum, and then blow a bubble.
VALENTINE BUS BANQUET
This is a fun way to celebrate friendships with a class, church group, scout troup, or GAMEKIDS Club. First you decorate (or parent's, teachers, or adult sponsors) the inside of the school or church bus with the valentine theme. You must reserve the back seats of the bus for food preparation. You may wish to serve simple finger foods. You then take a bus trip around town and your adult sponsors serve you one dish at a time. (We recommend adults doing this especially since the vehicle may be moving!) Other adults or older teens can act as travel attendants (tour guides, ticket takers, song leaders, etc.) If adults dress and act the part it can be zany! If your bus has video monitors you may wish to show short cartoons.
VALENTINE Sleepovers
VALENTINE Recipes
1. Scent fake flowers with perfumed oils (there are some great smells available) and place in your room for a long lasting aroma
2. Get inexpensive hair clips and cut out words from magazines ex. cute, classy, fun etc.... Put magazine clipping on hair clip and paint over with clear nail polish(the word or picture will stick) Do a couple of coats. let dry. For a special pizazz decorate with fake flowers,beads, glitter, rhinestones, etc.. This is a great idea for little girls... I used to love to do it!
3. For Valentines Day mobiles are a fun art project and really easy. all you need is a wire hanger, some string, scissors and construction paper. Cut out hearts, stars etc... from construction paper decorate in whatever manner you wish. Make a hole and tie a knot in the heart and connect to wire hanger. This is great because you can do all different shapes in all different sizes and arrange them whenever you want. Pictures of your friends are always fun to put in the hearts well.
4. For sleepovers making hearts on your nails with polish is always fun and coating with a layer of glitter looks cute.
5. For cooking (I'm not much of a baker) Pillsbury is the way to go. They have fun heart shape cookies that you slice and bake and decorate with frosting with cute little sayings like "kiss me" "Two hearts are better than one" etc...
GAMES MUSICAL HEARTS (Elementary)
This game is similar to musical chairs. First you must make one big red heart that a person can hold in both hands. Everyone stands in a circle. A parent, teacher, or a student then plays music (it can be any popular love song or song about friendship). As the music plays you pass the paper heart clock-wise. When the music stops the person standing on the left of the person holding the heart is "out" - he or she must exit the game. The game continues when the music begins again. The game continues until the last person remains holding the heart. Give the winner a box of candy! - Sierra (grade 4)
Valentine Secret Admirer's
This game is really silly. First everyone gets a piece of paper and a pencil. They write a secret message to somebody and then the messages are collected.(Make sure everyone puts Secret Admirer at the end!)The messages are put in a bucket or a hat. Everyone gets a message and they have to guess who wrote the message. Then switch. Whoever, gets the most guessed right wins. - Miriam O. 3rd grade
RACE THE HEART (Elementary)
This game is a fun outdoor game for a group of kids. You will need just one small paper red heart (small enough to fit into someone's closed fist). First divide everyone into two teams. Team A and Team B. Each team should then pick one person to be captain. Each team must have a home base at opposite ends of the playing fields. Be sure that you point out boundaries. The two captains meet and decide who will begin first. One team takes the paper heart and huddles (gets into a small circle) so that the captain can secretly give one person the paper heart. Since the other team is probably watching everyone may want to pretend they have the heart. Then both teams line up facing each other about four feet apart. On the word "go" by a teacher or parent the team without the heart must then chase and tag members of the other team. When tagged you stop and open your hands to reveal if you have the heart or not. If the person tagged does not have the heart he or she says, "sorry - race for the heart!" He or she then must stand in place while the tagging team seeks out other players.
The team player with the heart must run towards the opposite team's safety base. If he or she gets there safely without being tagged then their team gets a point and the game starts over. If he or she gets tagged, then the heart is given to the other team and the play begins again.
You can set the number of total points to win. Have fun! - Sierra (grade 4)
BE MY VALENTINE SMILE
This is exactly like the game, "If you love me honey, please smile!" Well, we tamed it down for GAMEKIDS! Have everyone sitting in a circle with one person being IT in the middle. The person who is IT then goes up to anyone and says, "Hi! Can you please be my valentine, please smile!" The person then must respond to it by says, "Sorry, I cannot be your valentine. I cannot smile." The person saying this cannot smile at all. If he or she does, then they become IT and have to go into the center and start the game over. The person who was IT takes the seat of the person going in! Lots of laughs!
HIDE THE HEART.
All you have to do is make some red paper hearts and hide them around the room (or classroom). Have your friends go and find them.
- April J.(age 12)
GUESS THE NAME TAG
Create some name tags with words that relate with Valentines Day. Such as hearts, flowers, red, white, pink, and love. You will then tape this tags on people's backs. But they cannot look for the names. They must not find out what word is on their tag until the game starts. Everyone goes around and gives each other clues about the "valentine word" on their backs. You can ask a person only one question at a time. The game continues until everyone has found what theirs tag says.
- April J.(age 12)
THE BIGGEST SMILE
This is not a game, but its a great group activity to see who can give the biggest smile! You can give prizes to the person with the biggest smile. You can choose one boy and one girl winner. One at a time measure people's smiles with a ruler (or measuring tape). This is fun. You can also measure the zany faces! You can take photos as you do this as people are smiling BIG!
VALENTINE COMIC STRIP MIXER
This is a fun game for either sleepovers or groups (you will need several comic strips). Cut out a comic strip. Cut out each panel. Mix them up! For this game you will need clear tape. You tape the mixed up comic panels on people's backs. One panel per person. On GO they must arrange themselves in the correct order so that the comics can be understood. Have a teacher or parent be the judge!
GUESS WHO? (Older elementary, pre-teen, teen)
This is a fun guessing game which should bring a lot of smiles. Pass out little strips of paper to everyone in your group. Have them write the most embarassing thing that may have happened to them on the piece of paper. Make sure it is not anything too gross or inappropriate. Everyone then folds up the papers small and it is collected. One by one the strips are read aloud and everyone has to guess who the person is.
BUBBLE GUM BLOW!
This is a fun game with all the candy given out at Valentines. For this game have several (probably not more than 5) people come to the front of your class or church group. Make sure they know how to blow bubbles with chewing gum. Give each a piece of wrapped chewing gum (the type which you can blow bubbles). On GO, they put the wrapped gum in their mouths and only using their tongues must unwrap the gum using no hands (with younger kids you may wish to allow them one hand), spit out the wrapper, they must chew the gum, and then blow a bubble.
VALENTINE BUS BANQUET
This is a fun way to celebrate friendships with a class, church group, scout troup, or GAMEKIDS Club. First you decorate (or parent's, teachers, or adult sponsors) the inside of the school or church bus with the valentine theme. You must reserve the back seats of the bus for food preparation. You may wish to serve simple finger foods. You then take a bus trip around town and your adult sponsors serve you one dish at a time. (We recommend adults doing this especially since the vehicle may be moving!) Other adults or older teens can act as travel attendants (tour guides, ticket takers, song leaders, etc.) If adults dress and act the part it can be zany! If your bus has video monitors you may wish to show short cartoons.
VALENTINE Sleepovers
VALENTINE Recipes
