Valentine Games
MUSICAL HEARTS
(Elementary)
This game is similar to musical chairs. First you
must make one big red heart that a person can hold in both
hands. Everyone stands in a circle. A parent, teacher, or a
student then plays music (it can be any popular love song
or song about friendship). As the music plays you pass the
paper heart clock-wise. When the music stops the person
standing on the left of the person holding the heart is
"out" - he or she must exit the game. The game continues
when the music begins again. The game continues until the
last person remains holding the heart. Give the winner a
box of candy!
RACE THE HEART
(Elementary)
This game is a fun outdoor game for a group of
kids. You will need just one small paper red heart (small
enough to fit into someone's closed fist). First divide
everyone into two teams. Team A and Team B. Each team
should then pick one person to be captain. Each team must
have a home base at opposite ends of the playing fields. Be
sure that you point out boundaries. The two captains meet
and decide who will begin first. One team takes the paper
heart and huddles (gets into a small circle) so that the
captain can secretly give one person the paper heart. Since
the other team is probably watching everyone may want to
pretend they have the heart. Then both teams line up
facing each other about four feet apart. On the word "go"
by a teacher or parent the team without the heart must then
chase and tag members of the other team. When tagged you
stop and open your hands to reveal if you have the heart or
not. If the person tagged does not have the heart he or
she says, "sorry - race for the heart!" He or she then must
stand in place while the tagging team seeks out other
players.
The team player with the heart must run towards the
opposite team's safety base. If he or she gets there safely
without being tagged then their team gets a point and the
game starts over. If he or she gets tagged, then the heart
is given to the other team and the play begins again.
You can set the number of total points to win. Have fun!
BE MY VALENTINE SMILE
This is exactly like the game, "If you love me
honey, please smile!"
Have everyone sitting in a circle with one person being IT
in the middle. The person who is IT then goes up to anyone
and says, "Hi! Can you please be my valentine, please
smile!" The person then must respond to it by says, "Sorry,
I cannot be your valentine. I cannot smile." The person
saying this cannot smile at all. If he or she does, then
they become IT and have to go into the center and start the
game over. The person who was IT takes the seat of the
person going in! Lots of laughs!
HIDE THE HEART.
All you have to do is make some red paper hearts
and hide them around the room (or classroom). Have your
friends go and find them.
GUESS THE NAME TAG
Create some name tags with words that relate with
Valentines Day. Such as hearts, flowers, red, white, pink,
and love. You will then tape this tags on people's backs.
But they cannot look for the names. They must not find out
what word is on their tag until the game starts. Everyone
goes around and gives each other clues about the "valentine
word" on their backs. You can ask a person only one
question at a time. The game continues until everyone has
found what theirs tag says.
THE BIGGEST SMILE
This is not a game, but its a great group activity
to see who can give the biggest smile! You can give prizes
to the person with the biggest smile. You can choose one
boy and one girl winner. One at a time measure people's
smiles with a ruler (or measuring tape). This is fun. You
can also measure the zany faces! You can take photos as you
do this as people are smiling BIG!
VALENTINE COMIC STRIP MIXER
This is a fun game for either sleepovers or groups
(you will need several comic strips). Cut out a comic
strip. Cut out each panel. Mix them up! For this game you
will need clear tape. You tape the mixed up comic panels on
people's backs. One panel per person. On GO they must
arrange themselves in the correct order so that the comics
can be understood. Have a teacher or parent be the judge!
GUESS WHO?
(Older elementary, pre-teen,
teen)
This is a fun guessing game which should bring a
lot of smiles. Pass out little strips of paper to everyone
in your group. Have them write the most embarassing thing
that may have happened to them on the piece of paper. Make
sure it is not anything too gross or inappropriate.
Everyone then folds up the papers small and it is
collected. One by one the strips are read aloud and
everyone has to guess who the person is.
BUBBLE GUM BLOW!
This is a fun game with all the candy given out at
Valentines. For this game have several (probably not more
than 5) people come to the front of your class or church
group. Make sure they know how to blow bubbles with
chewing gum. Give each a piece of wrapped chewing gum (the
type which you can blow bubbles). On GO, they put the
wrapped gum in their mouths and only using their tongues
must unwrap the gum using no hands (with younger kids you
may wish to allow them one hand), spit out the wrapper,
they must chew the gum, and then blow a bubble.
VALENTINE BUS BANQUET
This is a fun way to celebrate friendships with
a class, church group, scout troup.. First
you decorate (or parent's, teachers, or adult sponsors) the
inside of the school or church bus with the valentine
theme. You must reserve the back seats of the bus for food
preparation. You may wish to serve simple finger foods. You
then take a bus trip around town and your adult sponsors
serve you one dish at a time. (We recommend adults doing
this especially since the vehicle may be moving!) Other
adults or older teens can act as travel attendants (tour
guides, ticket takers, song leaders, etc.) If adults dress
and act the part it can be zany! If your bus has video
monitors you may wish to show short cartoons.
MY PRINCE CHARMING (A Couple's Game)
This is a fun game for couples. Place chairs facing
inward in a circle formation. All the girls sit in the
chairs with their boy partners on their knees in front of
them. The boys take off both of their partner's shoes. The
shoes are then thrown into the middle of the circle. Then
each boy in blindfolded by their girl partner. On "GO" the
boys must go (with verbal directions from their girl
partners) and retreive their shoes and put each shoe back
correctly on the appropriate foot. When both shoes are put
on correctly the girl partner takes off the boy's
blindfold. Continue the game until the last couple does it
right!
Another version of this is to just have the boys on
GO retrieve the shoes one by one not blindfolded.
ROMEO and JULIET
This is a great teen game. Arrange chairs in a
circle and have everyone except IT sit on a chair.
Blindfold IT. IT then roams the circle until he or she
sits on a person's lap and asks, "Are you my Juliet or
Romeo?" The selected person answers in a disguised voice
while IT tries to guess who it is. IT can only guess once.
If IT is able to choose the right person then he/she
replaces the person in the chair and the second person
becomes the person in the middle.
HONEY DO YOU LOVE ME?
Here's a fun game that I've played many times, it's
called, "Honey, do you love me?" This is a boy girl game.
All of the girls sit in a large circle and then each of the
boys draws a name out of the hat with one of the girl's
names on it. Say there was three girls and their names were
Julie, Jennifer, and Dawn. The boy that picks Julie will go
over to Julie and sit on her lap and say, "Honey, I love
you." Then the girl has to reply, "Honey, I love you, but
you can't make me smile." She has to say this without
smiling or laughing otherwise they are both out.
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