Valentine’s Day Trivia

About 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged each year. That’s the largest seasonal card-sending occasion of the year, next to Christmas.

February 14, 270 A.D. : Roman Emperor Claudius II, dubbed “Claudius the Cruel,” beheaded a priest named Valentine for performing marriage ceremonies. Claudius II had outlawed marriages when Roman men began refusing to go to war in order …

What NOT to give your beloved for Valentine’s Day

  • A box of Valentine’s chocolates, clumsily rearranged in an attempt to hide the fact you ate all the caramel ones.
  • Any food item with the words “diet”, “light”, or “high fiber” on the label.
  • Flowers from a hospital’s gift shop–or worse, a mortuary’s.
  • Love poetry, no matter how heartfelt, that starts out “There was once a girl from Nantucket…”
  • Anything

Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt

Description
This is the traditional scavenger hunt where participants are given a list of items to retrieve and bring back within a designated time limit. The Valentine’s Day scavenger hunt consists of a list of the Valentine’s Day related objects and some rules. Variations may allow photos of an object to replace the actual object or creative substitutions. The rules …

Valentine Heart Tower

candytower.jpgIntroduction
How high can you stack your pile of valentine candy hearts?

Game Description
In this game for a Valentine Party event, participants will try to stack a box of valentine candy hearts as high as possible. It’s not as easy as it may seem!

Game Materials

  • One small box of Valentine candy hearts candy for each team. (These are

Valentine’s Day Ten Commandments

I. I am thy Main Squeeze; thou shalt have no other squeeze before me.
II. Thou shalt not take the name of thy Squeeze in vain, nor badmouth her behind her back.
III. Remember our Anniversary, and keep it holy–or else.
IV. Honor MY mother and father. THINE are just too weird.
V. Thou shalt not kill my love by …

Silly Signs

Sign at Railroad Station
“Beware! To touch these wires is instant death. Anyone found doing so will be prosecuted.”

Rest Stop in Wisconsin
“Do not eat urinal cakes.”

At a Santa Fe gas station:
“We will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass container.”

In a New York restaurant:
“Customers who consider our waitresses uncivil ought to see the manager.”…

Valentine’s Day Boggle

Valentine’s Day Game Description
In this Valentine’s Day Game, party participants are to create as many words as possible before the timer runs out using only the letters in the word “Valentine”

Valentine’s Day Game Resources

  • Word List (possibly a dictionary as well)
  • Timer
  • Paper and pencil/ pen for each person

Valentine’s Day Game Preparation
None

What to Do

  1. Participants

John 3:16

A little boy was selling newspapers on the corner, the people were in and out of the cold. The little boy was so cold that he wasn’t trying to sell many papers.

He walked up to a policeman and said, “Mister, you wouldn’t happen to know where a poor boy could find a warm place to sleep tonight would you? …