Today is the start of 'Love Week' here at Take All Chances. With Valentine's Day at the end of the week I thought I would do some posts about love this week. Today's post is something which I have worked on with a contact regarding ways to celebrate Valentine's with the whole family! After all, love goes between the whole family and to show them love and spend time with them is a perfect treat!
Enjoy!
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3 Valentine’s Day Activities Your Whole
Family Will Love
Valentine’s isn’t just about spending time
with the person you love. It is also about bonding with your kids and
teaching them how important it is to appreciate and love their family. By
helping to challenge their minds and helping them get some exercise with fun
Valentine’s themed games, you will not only be able to bond during the day as a
family, but as they pass out from all of the fun, you get to enjoy your
significant other at night.
1. A Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt with
Themed Clues
In a Valentine’s Day scavenger hunt, you’ll
have your children searching for red heart-shaped clues that lead them to a fun
activity and prize for the whole family.
First, assign each of your children his or her favorite cartoon or movie
character- this will serve as the theme of your child’s scavenger hunt. Write each of their first clues on a
Valentine’s card featuring their assigned characters. Many drugstores carry inexpensive movie- and
television-inspired Valentine’s cards, or you can make your own using free
Valentine’s Day cartoon printables from the internet. Include a letter with the first clues
explaining that their character has lost something he or she loves and needs your
child’s help finding it. Make sure to
put your children’s first clues somewhere they won’t be able to miss, such as their
bedroom doors or bathroom mirror.
On the rest of the clues, include objects
that are important to each of your children’s characters but are not what that
character loves and is searching for. If
you’re using Aladdin, you can include a magic carpet on one clue and a genie
lamp on another, but don’t include Princess Jasmine until the very end. Make sure that your children’s clues always
lead to the same locations throughout the hunt.
This way, they can brainstorm and work together in finding their next
clues. What can be more fun for a parent than seeing their children work
together!
Once your children arrive at their final
destination, glue a picture of what each of their individual characters have
been searching for all along. Leave a letter
explaining that as a reward for working together, you’ll do a fun activity as a
family later that evening. This can be
as simple as eating dinner at your children’s favorite restaurant or watching a
movie together in new Valentine’s Day pajamas that your children can find as a
prize for finishing the scavenger hunt.
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2. “You’ve
Melted My Heart” Pictionary
You’ve Melted My Heart Pictionary is a fun and
simple Valentine’s guessing game that can help your whole family to be creative
and have a blast. To begin, place water in heart-shaped ice cube trays, and add
red food coloring to the water. (If you
don’t own a heart-shaped ice tray, you can find them at a local dollar store or
very inexpensively on sites like Amazon.)
Have everyone write words or phrases on little strips of paper, and
place the strips of paper in a bowl. The key to Valentine’s Pictionary is to
relate all of the notes to Valentine’s Day or love. For example, one of the
notes can say “Cupid’s arrow,” while others could say “secret admirer,”
“initials carved into a tree,” or “Valentine’s Day candy.”
Once the ice-shaped hearts have frozen,
you’re ready to begin playing! Have
someone randomly pick a note out of the bowl.
Then, drop an ice heart into a container of warm water. Whoever’s turn it is to be the artist can
only draw for as long as the ice-heart has not completely melted. When the ice has melted, it is up to the rest
of the family to yell, “You’ve melted my heart!” and then have someone else
take a turn being the artist. Whenever
someone guesses what the artist has drawn correctly, both that person and the
artist get a point. That way, everyone
will do their best to draw the words or phrases well and guess correctly!
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3. Heart-Shaped Baking and Valentine’s Day Cake
Decorating
Having your children help you to bake and
decorate mini heart-shaped cakes or a large Valentine’s Day family cake can be
a lot of fun, especially since they’ll get to eat what they create! While you’re baking, an adult must be present
to supervise and make sure that children do not handle knives, use the oven, or
use or touch anything that is hot, as this may be dangerous.
There are two ways you can create
heart-shaped cakes. The first, which is easier,
is to have your children help you bake a large cake and then use a heart-shaped
cookie cutter to cut out smaller cakes. The
second method is to use a large square pan and small, springform cylindrical
cheesecake or cupcake pans. If you are using this method, take the square
cake and cut it into even squares. The
diagonal across the square should be the same size as the diameter of the
cupcake or circle. Next, slice each
circular cake in half and place two half circles on two sides of the square on
the top to form a heart.
No matter if you choose to make mini-heart
shaped cakes or a large Valentine’s Day family cake, having your kids help you
to pour bake mix into the pan and decorate cake with Valentine’s Day candies,
Hershey Kisses, and cute sayings like “Be Mine” or “I love you” can be a ton of
fun for your children. Make sure that
everyone initials their mini-heart cakes or their slices of the Valentine’s Day
family cake so you can take a picture of everyone’s creations before you begin
eating!
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Valentine’s Day can be a wonderful
opportunity to share special moments with your family. By making a Valentine’s Day scavenger hunt,
playing Your Melting My Heart Pictionary, or enjoying Valentine’s Day baking
together, you can create activities that your whole family will love. With these activities, you can help your
family to grow closer and make Valentine’s Day special for everyone.
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I don't know about you, but I love baking so heart shaped cakes is definitly a winner for me!
Have you got plans for the whole family this Valentine's?
