Hobbies And Interests
Valentine Mailbox Decorating Contest
Create a contest for the best-decorated Valentine mailbox. To avoid leaving anyone out, you can create various categories to ensure that each kid receives a prize. If kids are going to create a box where their Valentines will go, why not make it a contest. You can either have the boxes decorated before the kids arrive for the party or you can make the decorating part of the party. Provide things like glitter, constructions paper, glue, sequins, beads, ribbon, scissors and anything else you think would add creativity to their box decorating.
Red Heart Bingo
Create a quick and easy bingo game with a Valentine theme. The same rules and tools apply as regular bingo. The bingo cards can be in the shape of a heart, a cupid or anything else relating to Valentine's Day. Hand out a stamp in the shape of a heart as a marker for the bingo cards. As an alteration to the typical game consisting of numbers and letters, you could include words associated with Valentine's Day in the squares, or shapes like hearts and cupids.
Valentine Scavenger Hunt
Organize a scavenger hunt with candy or gifts as the prizes. To present the clues, bake cupcakes. Cut out hearts from different colored construction paper and write clues on them. Affix each clue on the bottom of a cupcake. The clues you provide can either be Valentine- or non-Valentine-related. When the final clue is discovered, each kid will have gotten a small prize and a cupcake.
Hot and Cold
Assemble goodie bags of various small treats and prizes, or one or two more significant gifts with each child's name on them. Write each child's name down on a piece of paper and put it in a bowl. Have someone choose a name from the bowl. The kid whose name was drawn from the bowl will be the one to go searching for his prize. As he moves around the room, yell out "hot" or "cold" until the prize is found. Repeat this until each kid retrieves a prize.