Valentines Day Parties are quickly approaching! Here are a few fun games you can do with the kids.
Heart Relay
What you will need:
Conversation hearts
4 plastic cups
2 spoons
Directions:
Divide kids into two teams. Fill two cups with conversation hearts and place two empty cups a few feet away. The first players of each team has one minute to move as many hearts from the full cup to the empty cup using a spoon. At the end of the minute, the next person in line goes. The team that moved the most conversation hearts wins.
Marshmallow Toss
Students partner up and stand across from each other, about 2-4 feet apart. One person has a handful of marshmallows and the other has a small paper cup. Students have one minute to toss as many marshmallows into the cup as possible.
After one minute, the throwers catch and the catchers throw.
The winning team is the one with the most marshmallows in the cup!
Marshmallow Race
Simple. You can play this several ways.
1. Break the group in half and draw a line in the middle of the table. Each side uses inexpensive plastic straws to try to blow the marshmallows to the other side of the line. The team with the most after one minute wins.
2. Each person plays individually and has one minute to blow a single marshmallow from one side of the table to the other. The person with the most at the end wins.
One-Handed Bracelets
One minute to thread as many fruit loops onto a pipe cleaner as possible.
And then–here’s the clincher–the player has to make that pipe cleaner into a braclet. Using one hand.
Heart Towers
Students have one minute to stack as many conversation hearts as they can. It’s harder than you may think!
The winner is the person who has the highest stack after one minute.
Valentines Day Bingo
Download your free cards HERE. You can use candy hearts as the pieces!
Kissing Booth
Let the kids guess how many Hershey Kisses are in the Jar
Heart Hopscotch
All you need is paper and markers! You can also use a lid and put it on a number – that number will be the one that the kids try to not step on as they are jumping.
Heart Bean Bag Toss
What you will need:
4 sheets of poster board
1 sheet of 8.5″ by 11″ white card stock (you could use plain white paper)
Packing tape
Marker
Pencil
Scissors
2-4 bean bags
Piece of paper and pencil to keep track of points
Directions:
-To make the game board, start by using the one sheet of white poster board. Fold it in half. Draw a heart on half, using the majority of the poster board for the heart. Cut the heart out.
-Tape your two hot pink sheets of poster board together, taping the wide or longest sides together.
-Place your white heart on top of your taped together pink poster board. Freehand draw a heart on the pink, making it larger than the white heart and filling the height of the pink poster board.
-Cut out the pink heart.
-Continue drawing hearts by folding the red poster board in half, drawing a heart smaller than your white heart on it and cutting it out. (You could trace your white heart on the red poster board and draw a smaller heart inside the heart you traced, if you want all your hearts to be really exact.)
-Finally, cut the smallest heart out of your piece of white card stock.
-Tape all your hearts together.
-Label the different sections with your point values using your marker.
To Play:
Divide kids into 2 teams. Standing behind a marked line, the first player of each team throws 1 bean bag per turn. The players then write down their points on a piece of paper and then collect their bean bags and hand to the next person in line. Once everyone has had a turn, then each teams needs to add up their points. The first team that gets to 100 wins. Or you can choose a lower number depending on how much time you have.
Chop Stick Dig
What you will need:
2 big bowls filled with popcorn and small pieces of candy
2 cups
2 pairs of kid’s chop sticks
Directions: Divide kids into two teams. First players of each team must try to get as many pieces of candy out of their bowl of popcorn and into their cup within 60 seconds. When time is up, the next person goes until everyone has had a turn. The team with the most candy in their cup wins.
Have more ideas? Share them below in the comments!
Thanks Teach Mama, Home Happy Home, Toddler Approved, Makoodle, Catch My Party and Real Coake