Valentine's Ideas for the Family
Valentine's Day is a holiday designed to celebrate love for family members, friends, teachers and sweethearts. Each year, over one billion Valentine's Day cards are sent within the United States. Whether your family is small or large, young or old, you can make Valentine's Day a special celebration of your love for one another, hope for the future and commitment to your family.
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Go on a Scavenger Hunt
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Make Valentine's Day special this year with a scavenger hunt. Give each family member a list of items to find and set a timer. The family member who finds the most items from the list gets a small prize. To make a scavenger hunt more interesting, give only clues in place of each item's name. Family members must solve the clue to figure out what the item is.
Make Cards Together
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Create several Valentine's Day crafts with your family. Even the youngest family members can participate with supervision and a little bit of help. Make Valentine's Day cards for your friends with glitter, glue, construction paper, markers, pens, lace doilies and stickers. For an additional sweet touch, attach a lollipop or piece of candy to each card. Since Valentine's Day is a holiday about love, you can also create special "love coupons" to give out. Each coupon can be redeemed for a chore or favor. For example, you can create coupons for sweeping the kitchen floor, an hour of babysitting or cleaning the bathroom.
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Create Valentine's Day Dishes
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Incorporate Valentine's Day love into the meals your family eats. Use food coloring to dye scrambled eggs pink or a heart-shaped cookie cutter to give toast a loving shape. Add strawberries to ordinary dishes as garnishes and other red or pink foods to brighten up each meal. For example, serve cherries as a snack or add red raspberries to oatmeal. Use red or pink napkins with each meal.
Share Stories
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Whether your children are toddlers or teenagers, Valentine's Day is often filled with mixed emotions. Talk to your children about your own experiences with Valentine's Day. Share your stories of love and special gifts you received, but also talk about Valentine's Days you had that weren't so special. Perhaps there was a year you hoped to receive a card from a crush but didn't. Be open with your children about this and offer helpful insight as to how they can deal with the pain of rejection on this love-filled holiday. Also remind your children that even if Valentine's Day is disappointing, you will always love them.
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