Valentine’s Party Game Ideas
Feather Relay Teams
Valentines hearts
Conversation Hearts Relay
Race
Blow a feather across to the other side and then next team
member continues.
Groups of children with hearts with instructions. When
their group is called they will perform an action like “whisper
Happy Valentine’s Day to teacher”
Divide the class in 2 teams, the kiddos race carrying as many
conversation hearts as they can on a spoon. The object is to
drop as many conversation hearts in a bucket as possible.
The team with the most wins!
Have the class guess the number of kisses in the jar and see
who comes closest. Everyone gets a kiss.
Hershey's kisses estimation
jar
A Student will be given a word associated with Valentine’s
Valentine Pictionary
Carnival Stations
Find your heart mate
Guess Who's Cupid
Valentine's Day Freeze Dance
Valentine bingo
Musical hearts
Heart relay race
Conversation Heart Game
Stack the conversation hearts
Day they will have a minute to draw and get their team to
guess what the word is.
Valentine Twister, Octopus Ring Toss, Bean Bag Toss, and
Inflatable Arrow Toss Game
Cut hearts in half either in different angles, or with
decorative large cutting scissors. Hand out the hearts and
have the children find their heart-mate!
I will secretly choose who will be the first Cupid by tapping
the child on the head while they all close their eyes. Next
ask the children to walk around shaking hands with one
another. However, Cupid should gently tickle the palm of the
hands that s/he shakes. If you've been tickled by Cupid, you
need to sit down. The other players should try to guess who
is Cupid before they are tickled too.
Play age appropriate Valentine music for the children. Before
turning off the music, I will call out a Valentine word. When
the music stops, the children should freeze in the shape of
the word or the action implied by the word. Words can
include: Valentine, cupid, arrow, hug, kiss, mailbox, secret,
gift, etc.
Call out/show picture, child covers it with a conversation
heart. When someone gets 5 in a row, call out Bingo!
Like musical chairs
Race with heart pillows between knees
Kids try to match up their half of a construction paper heart
with someone else in the room to see what their heart will
say and who they match up with.
Students get 30 seconds to stack as many hearts as they
can. Repeat several times and see if you can beat your best.
Catch My Heart
Materials: Red balls or Heart Shaped Bean Bags.
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Valentine’s Day Matchmaker
Materials: Paper and tape.
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Blinded By Love
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Balloon Mania
Write the names of famous couples and friends on
strips of paper. One name per strip. Examples
include: Santa and Mrs. Claus, Mickey and Minnie
Mouse, Cinderella and Prince Charming, Peanut butter
and jelly, salt pepper, etc.
Tape one strip on each players back making sure they
don’t see the name of their half of the couple. Once
everyone has a name, they mingle throughout the
room.
Players should look at the names on each others
backs and then answer questions for one another
about their characters. For example: Am I a
character from a movie or book? Am I nice or
mean? Am I a person? Don’t give clues without a
question.
Materials: Blindfolds, chalk.
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Heart Scavenger Hunt
Works best with 5-12 players, sitting or standing in a
circle Hand one player a red ball or heart shaped
bean bag.
Tell the player holding the ball to call out another
players name and gently toss the ball to them.
The player whose name was called catches the ball,
then announces another players name and throws it
to them. Continue around till everyone has had a
chance to catch and throw the ball.
Once everyone is confident, throw a second ball into
the mix, and if daring a third or 4th ball.
Have three or four kids go to the board at once
Blindfold each child and hand them a whiteboard
marker
Ask them to draw a heart on the board.
Hidden hearts with varying number of points will be hidden
all over the room. The child with the most points wins.
Hold up a big sheet and divide the class in two teams. I will
blow up a bunch of balloons and divide them evenly on the
two sides of the sheet. When I say go, the class has to get
as many balloons over to the other side as possible.
“Hot Potato” present unwrap
Teddy Bear Pass
Valentine Bean Bag Toss
Fish for Hearts
Balloons in a Box
Valentine Coordinates
Steal My Heart
Heart Beat
Hand Squeeze Race
I will wrap a box filled with prizes in several layers of
wrapping paper. The kiddos sit in a circle and pass the box
around to music. When the music stops the kiddo holding the
box unwraps a layer of paper. When the final layer is
unwrapped, the child holding the box gets to pass out the
prizes.
Relay game/2 teams – pass a stuffed valentine bear down
their team's line, passing it over their head and the next
person under their legs. They have to pass it to the end of
the line and back.
Using a cardboard valentine cutout, students will toss little
bean bags through it, taking turns from one line and once
everyone has had a turn, we'll move the cutout back and toss
from a little further back for more of a challenge.
Each child will take turns fishing for pipe cleaner hearts out
of a bucket with toy fishing pole.
Each child will take turns getting the red balloon in the red
box. The first time through they will each throw the balloon
into the box. The second time through, they will put the
balloon between their legs, walk over to the box without
dropping the balloon, and then drop the balloon into the box
without using their hands, just their legs. If there is a third
time through, they can repeat the first and second times but
doing it backwards!
Figure out Valentine words by locating letters on the grid
using coordinates.
Each table gets a bowl of conversation heart candies, paper
cups and chopsticks. When you say go the first tries to pick
up a heart with the chopsticks and place it in their cup.
When you say “cupid” they must pass the chopsticks to the
next classmate and so on until you say stop. They count up
their hearts and the table with the most wins.
The class breaks into two teams lined up at one end of the
room. At the other end are two piles of hearts with
instructions on the back with an action they have to perform.
You say “go” and the first one from each team must run to
the pile and pull out a heart and perform what it says to do
and run back, then the next person goes until each team has
finished. Ex. “walk like a crab”, “skip backwards”, etc.
The kids line up and hold hands (2 lines) all of the kids close
their eyes except the first kid. A coin is flipped if it lands
on heads the kids squeeze the hand of the one next to them
and it goes down the line. The last child in line picks up a
penny and puts it in the bucket. Play for 5 minutes and the
team with the most pennies wins.
Breathless
Mitten candy relay
Gummy Candy Relay
Heart Islands
Pin the Heart on the Dog’s
Nose
Pin the arrow on the heart
Use straw to suction a tissue paper heart and hand them off
to the next person.
Each kid has to wear mittens to unwrap a Hershey kiss and (I
had a bowl for the garbage and a plate for the candy), take
the gloves off then could eat the candy with their hands.
Take gummy candy (I think there are hearts and circles),
they are LifeSavers) and tie dental floss around it. Then,
the kids have a relay where each kiddo has to eat the candy
off the string with no hands (you and I would be standing on
chairs and holding them at the kids mouth level).
Each child will take turns using two felt hearts to get across
the space and back. They will lay one heart on the floor and
stand on it, lay the next heart on the floor and then step on
it, turn around and pick up the heart behind them and move it
in front of them and then step on it, and keep moving across
the floor staying on the heart islands! I also will bring two
sets so they can race one other child at a time if you want.
Pin hearts to a dog’s nose.
Kids line up and are blind folded. They try to get the arrow
as close as possible to the middle of the large heart on
poster board.