Valentine’s Day Candy Charades

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Valentine’s Day candy conversation hearts (BE MINE, COOL KID, LOVER BOY, KISS ME, MY GAL, etc.)

Game Objective
Play a game of charades using candy conversation hearts as the messages.

Game Preparation
1. For this game to be effective, there must be quite a number of different conversation hearts to choose from.
2. Put all the candy in …

Valentine Balloon Shavers

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You’ll need heart shaped balloons, razors and shaving cream or whipped cream

Game Objective
Shave the cream from the balloon with the razor without popping the balloon.

Game Play
1. Break your group into boy-girl couples.
2. Each guy blows up a heart shaped balloon and sits in a chair facing the girl.
3. The girl then spreads …

Fractured Valentines

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A Valentine Design

Game Objective
Create random Valentine’s from youth responses.

Game Preparation
Before the party, design a crazy-looking valentine, listing four parts to the message: (Be sure to leave plenty of space between the lines. You’ll want to experiment with different valentine designs and choose the one that works best. See the following example.)
1. Dear
2. …

Valentine Balloon Race

heart_balloon.jpgMaterials
Red, white, pink balloons. (Its even better if you can find heart-shaped balloons)

Game Objective
Using the air inside the balloons to propel them forward, move the balloon to the opposite end of the room and back.

Game Play
1. Divide the group into teams.
2. Give each person a balloon.
3. On “go,” the first member of each …

Cinderella’s Valentine

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None: (For the Variation a Sheet is required)

Game Objective
Each blind-folded prince must follow the directions of his cinderella to return her shoe to her.

Game Play
1. At your next Valentine’s Day celebration, label the girls as Cinderellas and the guys as the princes.
2. The Cinderellas sit in chairs.
3. Each prince kneels in front …

Valentine Candy Teams

valentine_candy_heart.jpgMaterials
Valentine candy conversation hearts (BE MINE, COOL KID, LOVER BOY, KISS ME, MY GAL, etc.)

Game Objective
Use valentine Candy Hearts to separate your group into teams.

Game Preparation
Determine before your event how many teams you want to have and how many people you want on each team. Choose one of the phrases for each team and collect …

Valentine Candy Bingo

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1. Valentine candy conversation hearts (BE MINE, COOL KID, LOVER BOY, KISS ME, MY GAL, etc.) Buy enough candy hearts for all players to fill up all their bingo cards.

Game Preparation
Make up a variety of bingo cards–but instead of putting numbers in the squares, fill the squares with phrases from the valentine candy hearts.

Game Objective

Valentine’s Day Famous Couples

Game Materials
One or two sets of hearts (as many as you will need for your group size). If you have teams use different colors of hearts to distinguish between them. On each heart write the name of one person in the Bible. Write its match on another heart.

Game Objective
In this scavenger hunt / icebreaker, participants must find …

Valentine Twister

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1. Valentine’s Day Conversation Candy hearts “BE MINE”, “I’M YOURS” etc.
2. The normal mat in the boxed game that forms the playing surface is decorated with six circles each of red, yellow, green and blue. Instead of the standard twister mat, cut heart shapes from colored construction paper and use sticky-tack to adhere them to the floor. …

Valentine Card Puzzler

valentine.jpgGame Materials
Valentine Cards

Game Objective
Youth match their pieces to the card design to find their groups in this Valentine’s Day crowdbreaker.

Game Preparation
1. Select the front panels of several Valentine’s Cards with different pictures. Use 2 identical cards for each group. Each group must have different card.
2. Cut one card of the 2 cards into pieces. …