Every February 14th, thousands of students celebrate Valentine’s Day with a classroom party. They exchange Valentine’s cards, make a craft and play a few games.

As a Room Mom, it is hard to come up with ideas that the kids have not seen before and this year, the party might even be virtual. If you are still struggling with ideas for your child’s classroom party, look no further. 

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Crafts

Valentine’s Day Origami – Almost every kid has a blank piece of paper at home so this is an easy craft. Even if you can’t do origami yourself, there are so many cute heart and flower origami how to videos online.

Mason Jar Pen and Pencil Holder – Use tissue paper hearts and a thin layer of glue to make Valentine’s Day pencil holders out of Mason jars. The students will apply a thin layer of glue with a small paint brush to the outside of the jar and place tissue hearts on top. Then they will apply another layer of glue and hearts until the outside of the jar is completely covered. Add on last layer of glue and let dry.

Valentine’s Day T-shirts – Purchase a white t-shirt for every child, along with pink and red paint, cotton balls and cotton swabs. You will also need removable glue dots or two sided tape. Using posterboard, cut out shapes of different sized hearts, arrows or other Valentines Day graphics.

Have the kids place the shapes on the flat shirt, securing with glue dots. Use the cotton balls and swabs to make dots of colors all around the edges of the cardboard and beyond. When done, remove the cardboard to reveal a white shape of the heart or cupid surrounded by a cool dot design.

Games

Musical Scavenger Hunt – For this game, the host will play some fun music while the players race around their house to find the item on the list. Last one back to their camera (or any without the item) is out.

How many can you name? – In this game, the players are given a category (breakfast cereals, for example) and a time limit of 10-20 seconds. The players need to come up with all the cereals they can think of in that time frame and get one point for each.

Valentine’s Day Snap – This PowerPoint game shows players 25 Valentine’s Day pictures for 5 seconds and then presents a question about the picture. The game is fast paced and there is reading required, but if the host reads the question out loud, all ages can play.

Virtual Four Corners – Send the players a sheet with four Valentine’s Day words like heart, cupid, love and valentine. The teacher closes her eyes while the students pick one of the words and holds it up to the screen. The teacher calls out a word and those students holding up the word are out. The remaining students continues until one person is left.

Memory – This game works well if one of the room moms has access to a document camera. Place several items on a tray under the camera (you can also show paper cut outs of images on a board and hold it up to a computer camera). The players look at the images for a minute and then the tray/board is removed from the camera vision while one of the items is removed. The players then guess what item is missing. The person with the most guesses wins.

Valentine’s Day Challenge – This is another fun PowerPoint game that can be played with the students. Challenge is like Family Feud and comes with ten rounds of editable questions and answers.

Valentine’s Day Card Exchange

While I really tried to come up with some kind of virtual exchange of cards, it just wasn’t the same. My suggestion is to have all the kids drop off their valentines at the Room Mom’s house (she probably lives in your neighborhood). She can then sort them out and place in cute bags/mailboxes for each student.

This package can be dropped off at individual houses along with any craft or game supplies or picked up by the parents at the school if other things are going back and forth that way.

Are you doing something special this virtual Valentine’s Day? If so, please share in the comments.