Valentines Fun

We make a whole fun day out of Valentines Day!

Breakfast is Pancakes with a little red food coloring and using a large metal heart cookie cutter as a pancake mold. We have fruit punch.

The theme for the day is hearts and lots of red and pink!

We play games:

Stack the candy hearts one or more kid can do these. Set a time and see how high they can stack their candy hearts.

Group games:

Cookie Snack Walk. Take a red construction paper heart taped to thefloor, play music kids walk in a circl winner on the heart whenmusic stops gets a Little Debbie heart shaped snack cake.

Circle Time Heart Match Game- All kids get a half of heart. Theyhave been cut before hand and they have to go around the room andfind their partner to make one whole heart. I use paper valentine platers and cut them with scrapbook scissors. You can also do this with one or two kids as well by cutting them and mixing them up and having the kids put them all back together.

Lunch will be sandwhiches of course cut into hearts!

Dinner I usually make mini meatloafs shaped into hearts, I use a sweet tangy sauce with ketchup and brown sugar to cover the meatloafs. The kids LOVE these. I have even gone so far to dye my mashed potatos before....the kids loved it. We have a family candle light dinner, turn off the lights put on music and dine by candle.

We exchange valentines with each other. We eat our yummy heart shaped cookies that the kids decorated.

We have also made love bug cupcakes before. Basically just have a lot of fun!

It makes it a fun family valentine day!

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