Valentine's Day is a day to celebrate Love! The stores are filled with hearts and balloons, festive cookies and cakes, and of course the shelves are loaded with boxes of Valentine cards for your children to pass out to their friends. But what does Valentine's look like for your family? Here are 10 ways you can celebrate Valentine's with your family and show them just how much you love and care for them.
Meals and Desserts
- Heart-shaped Pancakes, yummy! Allow the kids to add sprinkles, chocolate chips, strawberries, red or pink food coloring, or powdered sugar. Anything sweet. Serve with strawberry milk for a little extra pink.
- Use a heart shaped cookie cutter and cut sandwiches into festive hearts, cook some heart shapes eggs (use metal cookie cutters), or make a batch of heart shapes sugar cookies.
- Fill a platter with all things, healthy and sweet, pink, red, and white. (Strawberries, cherries, string cheese, cup cakes, cookies, and candy.)
- Looking for more Valentine's themed food ideas? Check out our heart-shaped fruit kabobs, and more ideas from our friends at Macaroni Kid EATS!
Crafts, Cards, and Notes
- Love Notes Throughout the month, leave random notes of Love for your kids to find. Whether on their bedroom door or the bathroom mirror or even in their lunch bag, your kids will enjoy these little notes, even if they act like they don't. Let them know how much you love and appreciate them all month long.
- Make Conversation Heart prompts and during your meals together all month long, pull out a couple of prompts and get to sharing your thoughts. Be sure to have the kids write some of their own.
- Make Home-made Valentine Day Cards. Keep it simple. Just get paper, markers, crayons, and any crafty items you have around the house such as stickers, glitter, tissue paper, etc. Just let your kids be creative and have fun. Click here for 100 Valentine Puns to help you get started.
Activities and Outings
- Go on a Heart Scavenger Hunt. Whether looking around your house or at a store or a local park, have the kids ready to keep track of all of the hearts they can find. They can simply make a tally mark on a sheet of paper or use a phone or table to take a picture. Whether you set a time limit to see who finds the most or say the first person to find 15 hearts...have a little surprise, such as a chocolate, waiting for all participants.
- Check out the events calendar for family friendly events happening in February.
