Planning an adult Valentine party is a bit of a no-brainer. Invite a lot of couples, have a few drinks, decorate with red.

Done, right? Yes and no. You want to put a little more thought into it than that and it’s good to have some games to keep things lively. If you are inviting several couples, there are many fun activities you can plan.

Planning for the adult Valentine Party:

Adult valentine party games:

First, how about the “what’s this item” game? Fill a paper bag with a variety of new undergarments. These should be both men’s and women’s garments and can include anything from a bra to a lace teddy to a jock strap.

Each couple feels around in the bag (not on the outside, as this one requires hands-on effort) and makes a list of what they think is in the bag. You can tell people how many items are in the bag, but that’s it. So you might say, there are 10 items in the bag; what are they?

Once all the lists are made, pour the bag’s contents out on a table. Let everyone go through the items and see who has the most number of items right. The winning couple gets, you guessed it, the bag of goodies.

It’s important for families to show their love for one another, so what better time than Valentines Day

to play some game, engage in some fun activities, all designed to show each other love and support?

Fun family activities that can be played Valentines Day:

One fun family activity is all about giving each other “snaps” for being who they are. Over the course of the year, mom and dad, and the kids as well, can add “snaps” to a special jar or containers.

These “snaps” might include things like “dad helped me build my pinewood derby car” or “Joey read books to his sister each night without complaint“. Read these little slips of good things thanking each other for caring and empty the jar to start it again for another year.

At dinner on Valentine’s night, have each family member tell others why they love them. What about dad made mom love him? Why does Joey love his sister? What about sissy is special to dad? It might seem a little corny at first, but in the end, everyone will enjoy hearing wonderful, positive things about themselves.

If you are planning a preschool Valentines Day party, games are essential.

Here are some games appropriate for the preschool valentine day party.

Preschool Valentines Day party games:

Fishing can be included in preschool Valentines Day party game:

Preschool-age children love to fish. You can create fishing as a preschool valentine day party game with small toy fishing poles and hearts (as fish). Use an empty plastic tub as your “lake” and put into it red hearts cut out of construction paper or cardstock.

Each heart is good for a prize. One might be good for a Hershey’s kiss, or other small candy, another might be for a small plastic heart.

Put magnets on the cardstock hearts and a magnet on the fishing pole. Then the kids can “fish” for hearts and win a prize at the same time. Each child should only be allowed to “catch” one fish each.

Dashboard balloon games included in the preschool Valentines Day party:

Preschoolers love balloons and you can create a heart target for them to aim their balloons at. Create a target out of cardboard or heavy cardstock and put it on the floor somewhere. You might want to have several targets on the floor.

If you are planning a Valentine’s Day party for children, games are essential. Here are some Valentine Day games appropriate for the elementary-age crowd.

Different Valentine Day games:

‘Heart’ valentine day games:

Bring in two large stuffed hearts (either pillows or just plush stuffed hearts). Divide the kids into two teams and tell them they must run to the finish line with the heart between their legs.

So they won’t run as much as stumbled forth. Once they return to the group, they should take the heart and give it to the next child, who puts it between their legs and so on. Whichever group finishes the entire relay first wins.

‘Mummy’ style valentine day games:

Give the children a couple rolls of toilet paper and instruct them to wrap another child mummy style. This is a popular game at Halloween, but in this case they are wrapping a present. Divide the kids into two teams and time them. The team that finishes first, wins, and gets to put a big red bow on their “package”.

‘Word’ remembering valentine day games:

Help elementary students remember some of the great couples by having them complete the match to a famous other half.

If you’re planning a Thanksgiving party in the classroom, there are a myriad of thanksgiving games you can have the children play that will be fun but also educational and useful in teaching the concept of being thankful.

Be careful not to overdo the turkey aspect of Thanksgiving. Some children forget that it’s about more than the turkey. Playing some fun thanksgiving games can help them remember the purpose of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving games:

Gratuity bag in thanks giving game:

Try a gratitude bag. Fill the bag with several cards, each with something on it. Some will say “Thanksgiving” while others will have a word or picture of other things. Some of those other things might be cars, food, clothes, etc.

Have the children sit in a circle and draw a card out of the bag. If they get a card that has a picture or word on it other than “Thanksgiving” they should talk about why they are thankful for that item and why others should be as well.

For example: if the child chooses “shoes”, they might express how thankful they are that they have shoes so their feet stay clean and they don’t get cold in the winter and they stay unharmed when they are walking.

If you’re hosting thanksgiving activities for family, you want to create a fun family environment that helps children understand the importance of thankfulness and reminds the adults of this as well.

Since Thanksgiving Activities comes just before what many refer to as the “greedy” season, activities designed to remind people of the bounty in their lives are useful.

For example, you might help children understand that while they don’t have everything they want, they do have everything they need.

How is thanksgiving activities practiced?

How do you do this? Several ways are there in thanksgiving activities.

One is to help children create a cornucopia, which will sit on the Thanksgiving table. There are a variety of ways to do this. You can make a papier-mâché cornucopia using a balloon as the base to help you get the shape started. You can simply take large piece of poster board and shape them into a cone and fill those with whatever you like.

As an extra activity, you can have the children decorate the cornucopia before it gets filled.

Since the idea of the cornucopia is to celebrate a bounty and appreciate that bounty, you can fill it as is traditionally done with squash, corn and the like.

Most children love all things Halloween. As adults, we assume it’s because Halloween means candy and children generally love candy. But many children love more than just the abundance of candy at Halloween time.

They really get into the scary Halloween games for a ghoulish aspect of the holiday and delight in the displays of goopy brains and squishy body parts.

Scary Halloween games, therefore, can be really fun and goopy, if you wish. The kids will go with it, don’t worry.

Interesting scary Halloween games:

Scary Halloween games is a brain game: There’s a fun game on store shelves where you pick through a rubber “brain” to figure out what’s in it. You can create this easily yourself. Make some jello and fill it with a variety of items, like gummy worms and other gummy candies, some small candy and trinkets and other items.

Tell the children to root around in the bowl of jello (call it a “brain” if this will get the kids more interested) to figure out what’s in it. It’s goopy and messy and kids love it. Best yet, color the jello black so it’s too dark to see what’s inside and it looks more like goopy brain matter (the way kids see it, anyway).

When it comes to silly party games, it seems unfair that birthdays get all the attention and Christmas none. It’s time to bring back some silly party games for Christmas, and “Pin the beard on Santa” is as good a place to start as any.

How to play Pin the Beard on Santa game:

To begin this game, you need a cardboard cutout of Santa. This can be purchased at some party stores, or even little gift shops. It doesn’t have to be large, but it should be a big face of Santa. You can also find these at educational supply stores, or teacher supply stores, in the section of other cardboard decoration items that teachers put on classroom walls.

Once you get Santa’s face home, cut off his beard. That’s right, cut if clean off. There’s no point in pinning Santa’s beard on him if it’s already there, right? The beard you sliced off can either be thrown away or keep it to tape back up later, if you want to use Santa’s face for another game or as decoration.

Just because you’re stuck in an office all day doesn’t mean Christmas fun can’t extend to your workplace.

Depending on the environment at your work, it’s definitely possible to mix holiday fun with work and get into fun office Christmas activities.

One obvious choice for some fun at the office during the Christmas holidays is to have a party. You could have several, in fact.

Some interesting gatherings which can be perused in office Christmas activities:

How about a cookie exchange party?

Plan to do this at lunchtime one day, and during that block of time, everyone brings several dozen cookies they have made. You have to set a particular number of cookies everyone brings.

Because once everyone has an empty plate, they go around the table picking up cookies that look good to them and place them on their empty paper plate. If everyone brought 3 dozen cookies, say, then everyone gets to take home 3 dozen cookies. This is not a particularly unique idea, but one that brings a bit of fun into the workplace.

Keeping in mind whether or not the public visits your workplace, you might choose to decorate.

Working might not seem like all fun and games, but sometimes you have to be silly and make work fun. Valentines Day is a time to do just that.

There are many office Valentines Day activities you can incorporate at your work place.

If your office is particularly close-knit, that opens the door to even more activities.

Interesting office Valentines Day activities:

Start with the basics: Valentines Day is all about the chocolate.

Buy a big glass jar with a lid and make clear this chocolate is not for eating (a big sign on the front might help make this clear). Have everyone guess how many items are in the jar. You can fill it with just about anything, but Hershey’s Kisses seem to make the most sense.

You can fill with a mix of Kisses (hugs, regular, etc) or with just the classic chocolate kiss. In any event, have people guess how many kisses are in the jar. Their guesses should be written on a slip of paper and put into a box near the jar.

The winner gets the jar of kisses on Valentines Day. If your office is a bit more generous, a small dinner gift certificate could accompany the jar winner in office Valentines Day activities.