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Valentine Party Games for Children

Simple low-cost game ideas for kid's Valentine's Day parties

Jan 28, 2007 Elece Hollis

If you need some quick and easy fun games for children's group or classroom Valentine's Day parties, try these great ideas.

Conversation Hearts Pick-up:

You will need a bag or two of conversation heart candies
several sets of chopsticks
a metal pie plate with sloping sides for each team
a timer
a paper cup for each player

Divide the group of children into teams. Pour the candies into the pie plates. Give the first child on each team a set of chopsticks. Set the timer for sixty seconds.

With one arm behind his back the player must pick up as many candy hearts as he can and place them in a paper cup before the timer sounds.

Total each players score and the team's total heart take.

Tearing Hearts:

Each child is given a sheet of red or pink paper. When the leader starts by calling out "go!" each child will hold his paper behind his back and attempt to tear it into a heart shape.

These can later be centered and glued onto a white sheet of paper and made into a poster for friends at the party to sign for the player as a keepsake.

Hearts Aflutter:

Each child is given a heart with a word on it that can describe a heart. Make several of each. (Sweet, Red, Broken, Loving, Happy, Pink, Lacy, Chocolate, Candy, Valentine.) Seat the players in a circle. One child is put in the center. He calls out a type of heart or two types.

All the children with that word must jump up and hurry to sit in the chair vacated by another student. The caller will sit in one place, so that one of the children will be left without a chair. He becomes the next caller or "it" for the game to continue.

If the caller chooses, he can call "Hearts Aflutter!" Then all the children must get up and change seats.

Blindfold Drawing Hearts:

Each child will need a sheet of paper and a red crayon. He must put his paper on top of his head and draw a heart. Each child can then color his heart. Give a candy prize for the best heart.

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