Valentine’s Day is often seen as a holiday for couples, but love is much bigger than romance. Families can use this day to celebrate kindness, care, and togetherness. Fun traditions to make the day special can be enjoyed by children, parents, and relatives. It’s an opportunity to affirm to children that love involves friendship, respect and appreciation for everyone who is around them.
Crafts for Kids
- Handmade Cards: Invite kids to make colorful cards for grandparents or siblings or even friends. These cards mean the world, or at least seem to.
- Love Jars: Families decorate jars with gratitude notes. People each write what they love about others, and read them together.
- Paper Hearts Garland: Kids can cut and string paper hearts to decorate the home. It’s a cute way to pass love around the room.
Fun Activities
- Family Movie Night: Select a movie about friendship or kindness for the whole family. Add some popcorn and warm blankets; warm evening.
- Cooking Together: Bake heart-shaped cookies or cook a meal as a family. Cooking is teamwork, and there is a spirit of pride and camaraderie in children.
- Story Sharing: This helps children find love in the ordinary.
Traditions to Start
- Valentine’s Breakfast: Start the day with pancakes shaped like hearts or fruit arranged in a heart design.
- Gift of Time: Instead of buying gifts, spend special time together, play board games, go for a walk, or read books aloud.
- Family Gratitude Circle: Arrange for everyone to gather in one circle and ask them to describe one thing they are grateful for about each other. This fosters confidence and connection.
Valentine’s Day can be more than chocolates and roses. For families, it is an opportunity to instruct children on love as caring, sharing and kindness. Crafts and activities, along with old customs, put together a colorful celebration of community. Focusing on the love-filled embrace of relatives, at Valentine’s Day, will leave children with those sweet memories they can take with them for years to come.
