Belated Valentine's Fun

  What would Valentine's Day be without treat boxes?  The best are the ones made from recycled things found around your house.  Many thanks to Mrs. Laurie for sharing these little boxes from her granddaughter.  I don't know if the children were more excited about the treats or the box.  They were busy using their brains thinking up all kinds of goodies to store in these plastic bins.  (You could use them for Legos, Barbie accessories, stickers, crayons, toy cars....who knows....the possibilities are endless.)

 What would Valentine's Day be without games?  We played a game of "toss the ball into the heart" and musical chairs. 

 

It was quite a challenge for all 15 of us to march around the rug without getting a little frustrated when the music stopped....but, we did it!  Everyone used their best manners and one friend even gave up his chair to a friend when she didn't have one.  I don't think I have ever seen a child give up their spot in musical chairs to keep a friend from "getting out."  We didn't run or make crazy faces...we just walked around to the best music ever from Frozen.

 

 

 We even read some books....

 And learned that it isn't very nice to write "not so nice" poems on Valentine's for friends we don't like.  (Our friend Gilbert in the book pictured below wasn't a good Valentine friend.  Ask your child to tell you about Gilbert and his Valentine adventures.)  Of course we would never do that, but this book always reminds children to think about our friend's feelings.  Plus this book makes us giggle too.

 Of course, no party would be complete without yummy food to eat.  Thank you so much to our moms for the delicious pizza, fruit & brownie.

It was a really fun "belated" Valentine's party.  Yes we loved the snow from last week, but we missed our friends and were so happy to see them.  If you had to ask "Will  you be my Valentine?"  I'm pretty sure that everyone would answer with whole hearts, "YES!!!!!"