Materials
Develop a list of 15-20 items that teens carry in their wallets, purses, or on themselves.
Activity
1. Divide into groups of 4-5 students.
2. Tell the groups that you are going to ask for an object and the first group to run up to you with the object will receive the point.
3. The object of course is …
Game Materials
Chairs for youth arranged in a circle.
Game Objective
Can you get someone of the opposite sex to smile?
Game Play
1. This is a “lose when you smile” game.
2. Everyone sits in a circle and one person is “it” in the center.
3. The goal of the person in the center is to get someone of …
Game Materials
Cut out hearts, pencils.
Game Objective
Match the fun fact with the youth
Game Play
1. Pass out a heart to each youth.
2. Have each youth write their favorite color, movie, book, food, animal, etc. and name on one side of the heart.
3. Put all the hearts in a bowl.
4. A leader pulls one heart …
Game Materials
1. A cheap, rubber-tipped bow and arrow or dart gun for each team.
2. Heart shaped or red balloons
3. Straight pins
4. Slips of paper
Game Objective
Youth must pop balloons with cupid’s arrows and correctly piece together a love poem or scripture verse.
Game Preparation
1. Stick a straight pin carefully through the rubber tip so …
Game Materials
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 …
Game Materials
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 …
Game Materials
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. …
Materials
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 …
Game Materials
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 …
Materials
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 …