Valentines Day Guessing Game
Take a bunch of jars and fill them with assorted Valentine's Day candies (one kind of candy per jar). Be sure to count the number of candies as you put them in the jars.
Leave a piece of paper and a pencil next to the jar and have the kids guess how many candies are in the jar. Be sure they write their name on the paper beside their guess.
The one who's closest to the correct number wins the jar of candy.
You could also have it where the one that guesses the correct number wins a prize instead of the jar of candies.
Valentines Day Candy Toss
Take a piece of red construction paper and draw 3 circles in the middle of the paper. Make the circles three different sizes so the finished product resembles a bull's eye (the size of the circles will depend on the age of the children, the older the kids the smaller the circle).
Color each circle a different color and write in different point values for each circle. Have the kids each throw a different type candy (e.g., one child would only have cinnamon red hots to throw, another would have one color of jelly bean, another child another color, etc.
Prizes are awarded depending on which circle the child's candy lands on.
The child who lands on the bull's eye in the middle gets the big prize
The prizes can be stuff like: chocolates, candies, audio tapes of kids music, videos that kids would like, little stuffed animals, whatever you'd like).
Valentine's Day Heart Relay Race
Cut out a bunch of different-colored hearts and write different actions on them (e.g., hop, clap, crawl, skip, etc.) and place the hearts in a decorated box.
Divide the kids into 2 teams and designate who goes first.
The leader of each team would run up to a box and pull out a heart. Each child must do that particular action back to their team. The next child in the line is given the heart and they also must do that action back to the heart box. The games continues until every child has a turn.
The first team to finish wins a prize of your choosing.
Note: for older kids why not make the game a little more difficult. Maybe have them pick the hearts out of the box, one at a time, using chopsticks. You can also make the actions the kids have to perform a little more difficult.
Valentines Day Candy Hunt
Hide miniature candy bars and other candies around the house and have the kids search for them.
Designate a certain type of candy as the valentine's day first prize (maybe a giant Hershey's Kiss).
The child who finds this Big Kiss wins a prize of your choosing.
The other kids should also win small consolation prizes to avoid hard feelings.
Have prizes for finding this type of candy or that type of candy; for finding the least amount of candies, finding no candies, etc., etc. This ensures that everyone has a good time! Very important, especially when smaller children are involved : )
You could offer similar prize for everyone (except first prize). Have the kids pick out what they want from a box that's been decorated with Valentine's Day pictures and stickers. A heart-shaped box that chocolates come in would be a cool prize holder.
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