Cool Valentines Day Games

Valentines Day is a day for celebrating love and kindness. Make the day even more exciting with these cool valentines day games. These games are good in a school setting, and can be used together with a lesson about the meaning of love and how and why we need to care for each other.

St. Valentine's Post Office

For this cool Valentines day games, the players sit in a circle around the room except one who is selected for postman, blind folded and placed in the center of the room.
Some grown person, who acts as Postmaster General giving each child the name of a city or town and standing in a position to see the players, begins the game by saying, "I have sent a valentine from Chicago to New York (or the names of any of the cities or towns given the children.)"
The children representing these cities change places quickly, the postman trying to catch them or to sit in one of the empty chairs.
If he is successful in either attempt the child who is caught or whose chair he has taken becomes postman, while the retiring postman receives a small valentine as his reward.
A child who remains seated when his name is called must take the place of the postman.

Cupid is Coming

The players seat themselves round the room, and one having announced "Cupid is coming," another questions, "How is he coming?" Whereupon everyone must in turn say "Cupid is coming amblingly" or "amiably," or use some other adverb beginning with "A."
When every member of the company has mentioned an adverb, the game goes on by using adverbs beginning with "B," then "C," and so on until all the letters are used up, or the company prefers to change the game.
Anyone failing to supply an adverb must pay a forfeit.These cool Valentines Day games are great to play in a school setting.

A Heart Guessing Contest

The following sentences are written on heart shaped cards and passed with pencils to the guests who are told to supply the missing word with a word whose first five letters spell heart.

1. Cupid's symbol-- Hearts

2. Cupid greets you-- Heartily

3. Sitting on the-- Hearth

4. He is never-- Heartless

5. Sometimes he is-- Heart-sick

6. If he has caused a-- Heartache

7. If he were ill with-- Heart-burn

8. It would be-- Heart-rending

9. His favorite flower is-- Heart's-ease

10. Thoughts of love to touch the-- Heart-strings


The first person who guesses correctly receives an appropriate heart shaped prize.