Know Your Mate
"Know Your Mate" is a Valentine's Day game for couples. It will help you understand how well you know your partner.
How to Play:
1. The host needs to prepare some questions to ask the couples. For example, questions about interests, hobbies, the place where they first met, or their happiest moment.
2. First, gather all the males in a room. Ask the questions and note down each of their answers.
3. Next, bring the females into the room and ask them the same questions after the males leave.
4. Note down the answers from the females.
5. Bring all the males back into the room and match the answers of both partners.
6. The couple with the highest number of matched answers wins and is called the "Perfect Match."
Cupid's Tree Scavenger Hunt
Things Needed:
- Tree branch
- Jar
- Marbles or stones
- Paper
- Small gifts
- String
How to play:
1. Create a Valentine's tree centerpiece on the dining room table using a small bare branch held upright in a jar of marbles or stones.
2. Write clues on small pieces of paper for items that the kids must find or make of paper and hang on the tree. Then tie the clues onto the branches.
3. When the kids return with the last item, have small gifts waiting under the tree.
Tips for Clues:
To create clues, try the following, or use your own funny riddles:
1. "I like to bark and chase a stick. Draw a picture of me and hang it up quick."
2. "I've got five points and twinkle in the sky. Cut me out of tinfoil and put me up high."
3. "Although my name rhymes with stupid, I'm as cute as can be. Cut my shape out of paper and hang me on the tree."
Valentine's Day Word Games
This is a word game where famous pairs come together.
How to play:
Divide the children into 2 teams and form two rows facing each other. The first player on one side begins by asking the first player on the other team to complete this famous couple:
"Romeo and ...." the opposing player says "Juliet."
Continue down the row of players, and then the other team starts.... "peanut butter and ...."
"jelly"
"Cookies and ...." - milk
"Ram and ...." Sita
"Cinderella and ...." - Prince Charming
"Heer and ...." - Ranjah
And so on.
Variation:
This game can also be played using hearts that have been cut into two-piece puzzles. Children can be asked to match the hearts.
Love Story
How to play:
Give each player a piece of paper and a pencil.
Explain that they are working as a team to write a Love Story section by section.
Each player writes a portion of the story as per your instructions.
After each instruction, the papers are folded and passed to the next writer.
When the instructions are completed, each player/writer will have a story in their hands.
Take turns unfolding the papers and reading the stories.
Suggested writing instructions:
Girl Character's name -> pass
Description of Girl -> pass
Boy character's name -> pass
Description of him -> pass
How the boy and girl meet -> pass
First words the boy said to the girl -> pass
How she replied -> pass
What happened next -> pass
What did their friends say/do? -> pass
Other options for plot turns:
What did the neighbors say?
What happened on their first date?
Where did they get married? Kids? Pets? Adventures?
What did the newspaper print about them?
Use famous people and places.
Valentine Charades
How to play:
Before the party, write some appropriate phrases, book titles, song titles, and famous love stories (movies).
Place the slips of paper into an empty heart box.
Divide the players into teams and have them play facing each other.
Each player will draw a slip of paper from the heart box and, in turn, act out their song, book, title, etc., for their respective team.
Clues and Hints to remember:
- NO talking!
- Open hands represent a book
- Cranking motion represents a movie
- Waving hand before an open mouth represents a Song
- Tugging on your ear represents "sounds like"
- Holding up one finger means 1st word, etc.
- Touching your nose indicates the correct answer.
Throwing the Smile
In this game, players are forbidden to smile, but trust us—giggling and laughing will abound.
Things Needed:
- A place where everyone can sit in a circle
How to play:
Players sit in a circle, ensuring they can see everyone else. One player starts the game by smiling widely, while all the other players remain somber.
This player then uses their hand to wipe the smile off their face and "throw" it to another player who must catch the smile with their hand and put it on.
This new player then wipes off the smile to throw to someone else—though they will likely choose to make faces at everyone before relinquishing their happy role.
Meanwhile, all other players must remain stone-faced. One smirk, and they're out.
Tips:
The youngest players are the least successful at winning this game (as they can't stop themselves from laughing), but they also tend to enjoy it the most.
Gigglebelly
Just the name of this game cracks kids up; playing it only intensifies their joy.
How to play:
Have one player lie down on their back.
The next player lies down with their head resting on the first player's belly, and the next player lies down with their head on the second player's belly.
Arrange all the players until everyone is zigzagged around the lawn or floor, each with their head on someone else's belly (if possible, make the line into a loop so that the last player can put their head on the first player's belly).
Then, the first player shouts, loud and clear, "Ha!"
The second player responds with a vigorous, "Ha, ha!" then the third player chimes in, "Ha, ha, ha!"
Continue until all players have shouted out their "Ha's" or have dissolved into uncontrollable laughter, with heads bouncing on the bellies of giggling friends, uncles, cousins, or grandmothers.
With Regards,
Saikrishna
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