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 Cupid & Heart Hunt 

Preparation: Hide cupids and hearts around the party room.

How to play:

Send players off on a hunt for cupids and hearts.

Give point values for hearts versus cupids found. For example, hearts are worth 10 points, cupids worth 5 points. 

Tally each persons points to see who wins.

Hot Lips

Disney Princess Heart-Shaped Piñata

Piñata Filler

Piñata Blindfold & Bat

Candy Assortment

Searching For A Valentine

Cupid's Arrow

Candy Heart Conversation

Heart Scrabble

You'll need:

Oversized Cardboard Box

Toy Bow & Arrow Set

Scissor or Box Cutter

Paint (optional)

Permanent Marker (black)

Preparation:

Cut our heart shapes, various sizes on one side of the box. 

Paint box red, pink or a combination of both.

Next to each heart opening mark a point value.

Position box a proper distance for age group, mark a standing line.

How to play:

Give each child a turn to shoot 3 arrows into the heart opening on the box. Total their points. The highest score wins a prize and everyone else can get a consolation candy. 

You'll need:

Bag of Conversation Hearts  

      per team

Paper

Pencils

How to play:

Each team gets a bag of Conversation Hearts, a pen and pencil.

Set a timer to 5 minutes.

Each team must make complete sentences or phrases. 

Score by the amount of correct sentences or phrases or how many candy hearts were used. 

You'll need:

Paper

Pencils

How to play:

This can be an team or individual game.  Choose a Valentine saying and see how many words each team or individual can make from the letters. The most correct words win.

Word Ideas:

Valentine's Day

Heartthrob

Broken Heart

Be My Valentine

Hearts & Cupids

Candy Heart Conversation

Valentine

Buzz Word

You'll need:

Poster Board

Pens/Pencils

Paper

Preparation:

Prior to the party create a V-Buzz Word game on a poster board by choosing a buzz word and five buzz word clues. The answers must include the buzz word in it.  You can make up your own or I have included  examples below.

How to play:

Give each party guest who wants to play a paper and pen. Have them number 1 through 5.  They must guess the answer which includes the the buzz word for each one.  The guest with all correct wins. If a tie, then have the guest with the correct answers write their name on their entry and draw one from a bowl.

Write the buzz word and clues on your poster board.

Example #1

Buzz Word is LOVE

Clues:

1. Short Sofa

2. Adolescent infatuation

3. Money Can't.......

4. A tomato

5. Adam Sandler's odd romance movie

Write the answers on a index card to reveal at the end of the game.

Answers:

1. Loveseat

2. Puppy Love

3. Buy Me Love

4. Love apple

5. Punch-Drunk Love

Example #2:

Buzz Word is HEART

Clues:

1. Automatic pulse checker

2. Until you're satisfied

3. Absence makes....

4. Peggy Lee sang it best

5. Poetic line to stop my heart pounding

Answers:

1. Heart Monitor

2.To your hearts content

3.The heart grow fonder

4.You Gotta Have Heart

5. Be still my beating heart

Example #3

Buzz Word is SWEET

Clues:

1. Opposing mix of flavors

2. Words of flattery

3. Aerosmith anthem

4. The best part of the tennis racket.

5. ...And never been kissed

Answers:

1. Sweet-and-Sour

2. Sweet Talk

3. Sweet Emotion

4. Sweet spot

5. Sweet Sixteen

Cherry Game

Licorice Lips

Valentine Charades

You'll need:

Bowls

Maraschino cherries

Canned whipped cream

Paper Towels/Wet Ones

How to play:

Ask your guest who likes cherries. Select 3-4 of them to play the game. In front of each player, set a bowl with a maraschino cherry in it.

Explain to the players that the object is to be the first to each their cherry. Let them know they must place their hands clasp together behind their backs.

Just as they think this will be an easy game, you pull out a can of whipped cream.  Fill each bowl to the rim with the cream.

Now who likes cherries?  The winner is the first to find and eat the cherry.

Get the paper towels or wipes ready for cleaning up your guests.  Don't forget to capture the fun on camera.

You'll need:

Long red licorice string

   1 strand per couple

Single hole puncher

Paper Heart or Cupid

How to play:

Punch a single hole into the top center of paper heart or cupid.

Slide strand of licorice through the hole and place the heart or cupid in the center.

Each partner places one end of the licorice in their mouth and puts their hands behind their backs.

On "Go", the couples begin chewing the licorice working their way to the heart or cupid.  The first to get  to their heart or cupid wins!

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Party Consultant M. Hylton
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