Looking for a fun and meaningful way to celebrate love with your family this Valentine’s Day? Check out this Valentine’s Day Bible Verse Countdown for kids.
Valentine’s Day is all about love, of course. But before we can pour out love on others, we must first fill up with the only source of TRUE love: God. Most of us struggle daily to really grasp how deep and how wide the love of God really is. Why not do a Valentine’s Day Countdown and fill up on God’s love?
This is what I wanted for my kids: to focus first and foremost on God’s love. So, I created a little countdown. It’s simple. It HAS to be. As a single mom (who happens to work full-time and homeschool), SIMPLE is an absolute must when it comes to getting anything done. Of course, each day the countdown presents the opportunity to talk or read about various things about God and even extend this kind of love to others. But the core of the countdown can be done in as little as five minutes a day with as little as 10 minutes total preparation for the entire countdown. Yes, that’s perfectly simple!
Valentine’s Day Bible Verse Countdown for Kids
Simply print the pages on cardstock paper if you have it. This will make them durable enough to use next year too. I even laminated mine. If you don’t have a laminator yet, what are you waiting for? It’s my favorite household appliance. Ha!
Next, choose how you will display your Valentine’s Day Countdown. Look for a great place in your home that gets frequent traffic. A few of my favorites are:
- On the fridge door (tape or magnet)
- On the mirror in the family room
- On the bathroom door (you know everyone goes in there every day!)
- On a bookcase in the school room
- On a column or wall opening in your living room
How we use the Valentine’s Day Bible Verse Countdown each day
1. Each morning when the kids wake up, they know to search for that day’s heart. I hide it somewhere in the house and it’s such fun to find it. I tell them that we are going on a treasure hunt for God’s love.
2. Once we find it, we add it to our display and then look up the verse in the Bible. The kids take turns reading the verse.
3. I have them write the verse in their journals and write or draw something they think of when they read that verse. REAL LIFE—> Yes, sometimes we skip stuff like this. It happens and I’m totally ok with it. In fact, there is much benefit in just reading the verse and no reason to feel obligated to do this step at all!
4. Together we talk about what they wrote or drew in the journals and then brainstorm some of the ways we should respond to God’s amazing love as we’ve seen in the verse. This can be as simple as saying kind words to your siblings. But it also is a great time to think of a way your family could serve someone else that day.
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Through practical tools & Bible-based resources, Kim Sorgius is dedicated to helping your family GROW in faith so you can be Not Consumed by life’s struggles. Author of popular kid’s devotional Bible studies and practical homeschooling tools, Kim has a master’s degree in education and curriculum design coupled with over 2 decades of experience working with kids and teens. Above all, her most treasured job is mother and homeschool teacher of four amazing kiddos.
Jenn Gursky says
I’m excited to receive this free printable activity! What a wonderful idea to incorporate into our preschool routine for Valentine’s Day…and any day to really remember ABBA’s love for us ♥️
Amelia Pollack says
Thanks for sharing!!!
Lydia Barnes says
What a cute idea!
Liz Wray says
Love this!!
Kristine says
I would love to have this. It’s really cute!
CSR says
This year I am going to make a tree to put on the wall and kiddo can tape the hearts to the tree each day.
Alicia says
❤️
Danielle Barricklow says
Such a great idea!❤
Erica says
Thanks for sharing!!
Cristine says
Love this!!!
Karen Skrasek says
Super scripture idea!
Sara says
This looks great.
Kelly says
Very cool!
KAKARA.VANDHAN says
Praise The Lord 🌈🙏, This is pastor vandhan from India, I’m leading a community in forest area since 3 years it’s very far from my home town around 468 kilometres from my home town,
This place is so far from my home town around 468 kilometers from my home town ‘ there are worshipping idols before I’m slowly changing them into good path
Even at night also I went to small village and ‘ I’m presenting the movie ‘ in the beginning ‘ they so happy ‘
in my community,we have few children, they are motherless and fatherless kids, monthly once I gather all my orphanage member in one place in Forest area, I feed them, with a good food, the Grace of God, few months back, I gave some clothes for them and recently I distributed winter coats for our orphanage kids in Forest area, I’m planning to build a orphanage home for fatherless and motherless kids in Forest area, please kindly keep praying for us
My dear lovely Brother’s and sister’s i have helped the widows with a tzadakha(offering) which i have saved. I thank G-d to use this money to help that widows.
Please join with me
Good will drives women towards good work.
No matter how small the step taken with good will, it becomes stepping stone to God
In Hebrew, charity is TZEDAKAH. which means “justice” or “righteousness ”
It’s not something extra. It’s the right thing to do.
As a bridge between God and man Human beings do not just do things, but God sees the desires of our mind.
Proverbs 19:17
“Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done.”
I’m waiting for your reply 🙏
Your lovely brother
Pastor vandhan 🙏
Ekaterina says
Hello Kim! I would really love this printable, but I can’t see any form to fill except this one. Can I please get the PDF?
Janell says
I don’t see the form, either!
Suzanne says
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Suzanne@NotConsumed
Kelly Nestler says
Thanks for sharing!
Liz says
❤️❤️
Carly Gregory says
Thank you 💕
KB says
Never too late! Excited to try the printables this year.
Elizabeth says
What a great idea!
Becky Kerby says
May I have the Valentine’s Day Bible Verse Countdown plus our Christian Valentine’s Day card printables. Thank you. Bless you.
Amber says
Thank you for this!! I have 5 little children and I love these resources!
Amy says
thank you so much! I saw an idea on FB to use this with our Shepherd – our kids will be so thrilled! Thank you!
Heather says
Love this resource!
Janet Peluso says
Love this
Susan says
Thank you for ALL your amazing printables. I use many of them and especially like the valentine’s candy bag labels as well as the scripture heart verses. I have 15 children in sunday school & due to covid I’ll be delivering these to their homes along with a lesson.
I’d like to mention the importance of printing from adobe reader. The hearts came out beautifully. My first attempt without adobe printed black hearts with the one main word in colour.
Thank you for all the work you put into providing sound biblical products.
Denise Farus says
thanks you