Classroom Valentine Party

Valentines Day is the easiest party to plan.  At least 20 minutes goes to opening and looking at all the fun Valentines from classmates.  I still had some entertainment to plan....


Kindergarten Party: Paper Crowns

I thought these were super cute for a Valentines Party hat, so I made pink ones for the girls and red ones for the boys. 

Magnetic Valentines

I cut each kid a heart shaped magnet with coloring paper on it.  They got to color with markers and crayons however they wanted and make a Valentine to give to someone special.

Game: Pin the heart on Cupid's arrow and Pin the bow tie on Mr. Valentine. 

Complete with heart blindfolds made from felt and elastic.  There were super easy to put on each kid and they looked super cute on them.

*2nd grade had a birthday party as well, so just the game was enough to fill the time. 

First Grade Valentine Party

I was only a "helper" for Nathan's class and got the game portion again.  I decided to do a Valentine Version of Don't Eat Pete, my kids love that game and it was fun at their Halloween Parties they had with their friends.  Then I decided instead of making my own, I would just see what printables were available and found this cute one with monsters, right along with the Valentines Nathan chose, it was a simple choice....then we used Valentine's candy corn.

It was a huge hit with the kids, perfect game for first graders in small groups!

Printable from The Teacher Wife

Third Grade Party

We played Minute to Win It Valentine's Day Style.  It was a lot of fun.  We had 4 kids play at a time.  We drew names to randomly place the kids for the challenges.

Stacking  candy hearts on tongue depressors:

Move candy hearts from one plate to another using chopsticks (by the way chopsticks are hard to find, but I found them in a strange place in Walmart after asking several associates, finally a lady in electronics helped me locate them)

 Unwrap candy with socks on your hands. 

Unwrap Hershey Kisses using one hand....I was surprised at how well they did this one!

Bite off the end of candy corns to make a flat edge, then stack the candy corn in a circle on the plate.  Candy corn had to remain standing to count at the end.  

Moving Marshmallows from one plate to another using a staw...this was harder for them than I thought it would be, but worked.  

Game Prizes: Thought this idea was cute on Pinterest, so I made my own similar tag so that they had Valentine colors.  They turned out to be a great treat because it wasn't candy.

AND....we had donuts and juice for the treats.  I picked up the donuts from Walmart and made the arrows to put in them....loved how they turned out.