Treat Your Family To These 4 Terrific Valentine Ideas

Help your family feel the love this year with these heart-filled valentine ideas.

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Ah, love is in the air! Celebrate with your spouse/partner; if you have kids, you also know how important a celebration like Valentine’s Day is to them. The card exchange, the heart cutouts, the ooey, gooey cupcakes they will decorate—it’s all part of the fun that goes along with this favorite February holiday.

Here are four great ways to get your family into the spirit of Valentine’s Day:

1. Create a Post Office in Your Home
2. Make a Valentine’s Tree Inside or Out
3. Deliver Homemade Valentines to Surprise People
4. Make Valentine’s Day a Family Day

National Geographic Kids has a sweet article that explains why Valentine’s Day is such a special day for friends and family to celebrate. Check it out here.

Tip 1: Create a Post Office in Your Home

As Valentine’s Day approaches, this is a perfect way to write and deliver Valentine’s cards. You probably have most of the materials already on hand:

•        Mailbag (you can use a recyclable tote bag that you use for groceries and tape a mock Post Office logo on it)

•        Mailboxes (If you don’t have your own mailboxes, make your own out of cereal boxes or shoe boxes.)

•        Stickers

•        Stamps, stamp pad

•        Scissors

•        Envelopes

•        Pencils, markers, pens

•        Labels

•        Index cards

•        Stationery/Construction paper

•        Tape

•        Date stamp

•        Scale

•        Storage shoe box

•        Pretend money, cash register

•        Scale

Not only will making a pretend post office be a fun project that will entertain your kids for hours (setting it up and creating the Valentine hearts made of construction paper to mail), but younger kids (ages 3 to 5) can work on valuable skills like learning new words associated with the post office:  delivery, address, postage, scale, sort, mail carrier.

They can count and sort letters, draw pictures for postcards, and practice writing their names. Older kids (ages 5 to 10) can also benefit from writing postcards and letters, weighing mail, practicing writing their address, writing actual letters or stories to grandparents, classmates, and teachers, and spending time getting creative with stamps and creating beautiful pictures.

Tip 2: Make a Valentine’s Tree

Gather the Valentine’s hearts your kids made with pink, red, or a variety of colored construction paper and hang them on the branches of a winter tree in your yard. You can also collect several bare branches, spray paint them white, place them in a large vase in the corner of a room, and hang the beautiful hearts on the branches.

Tip 3: Deliver Homemade Valentines to Surprise People

Choose an elderly neighbor, the post office mail carrier, or the cashier at a store, or have your kids come up with other ideas of who to deliver them to! Carry a bunch with you to deliver to other families you see when you are out and about.

Tip 4: Make Valentine’s Day Family Day

A day devoted to love is the perfect time to celebrate family! Here are a few suggestions for making your “Family Day” a loving affair:

No Complaints: Use the 24-hour period of Valentine’s Day to ban complaints. Parents included!  After all, being around positive people, no matter how old they are, is much more fun!

Tell a Love Story: Tell the kids and your spouse one of the reasons that you fell in love with them. Also, share one love story each year about grandparents, favorite aunts and uncles, and family friends.

Go on a Family Date: Is there a family event or place your kids enjoy where you can all be together? We love going bowling or to an indoor trampoline center, where we can burn some energy and just hang out together. We can also cook a favorite meal and play games at home.

See Also How to Create Meaningful Traditions for Your Family

How do you celebrate Valentine’s Day with the family?  For all kinds of mom-centered creative ideas, visit me on Instagram at CanCanMomCB or on Pinterest at theCanCanMom. If you have questions or suggestions, email me at cheryl@cancanmom.com or leave a comment in the box below.