Looking for a fun and meaningful way to celebrate love this Valentine’s Day with your family? Check out these Valentine’s Day activities 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 Countdown by filling 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 5 minutes a day with as little as 10 minutes total preparation for the entire countdown. Yes, that’s perfectly simple!
Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids: Countdown
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 countdown. Look for a great place in your home that gets frequent traffic. Below, I’ve taken a picture of a few of my favorites:
*On the fridge door (tape or magnet)
*On a mirror in the family room
*On the bathroom door (you know everyone goes in there every day!)
*On a bookcase in the school room
How we use the Valentine’s 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 that 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 that. In fact, there is much benefit in just reading the verse and no reason to feel obligated to 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 this 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 that your family could serve someone else today.
GET YOUR FREE PRINTABLES:
Get your FREE Valentine’s Day countdown printables by clicking the image below!
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.
Sara@livingafaithfullife says
I was looking for something meaninful to do with the children in my class this year for Valentines day. I love your countdown idea and can’t wait to start using it!
You really did just make my life easier!
Blessings,
Sara
Didi says
The printable link doesn’t work. Thanks!
Suzanne says
Hi Didi, if you enter your information beneath the image at the bottom it should work now!
Suzanne says
If you click on the image itself of the Ultimate Christian Holiday collection it will open a box you can fill out to request the printables. 🙂
Dana says
I would love this for my classroom but the link doesn’t work. Is there any way I can still get it?
Suzanne says
Hi Dana, if you enter your information beneath the image at the bottom it should work now 🙂
Liz Hofer says
I am excited to use this in my classroom!
Alison says
Thank you for sharing!!!
Martha Estrada says
very nice ideas! Thank you!
Leslie says
Thank you so much for these free holiday printables. I love them!
Becky Subrahmanyam says
Kim, I posted this link on facebook to as many of my groups as allowed. I got banned for a day from facebook for posting too much, lol.
Dana says
These printables are great! I can’t wait to print and use them.
Tammie says
Hi! Just wanted to add info for those who can’t get the link to work… It wouldn’t work for me either, so I opened the page in a different browser and the link worked. 🙂 Internet Explorer considered the link a picture only, but Firefox opened it without any issue….
Brandy Robert says
Great idea
Sarah Howard says
I would like to use this printable for our children’s ministry program at church. Thank yiu
Erin says
Lovely printables! I am using them this Valentine’s Day as gift tags that will be attached to a small gift I am giving to each of my Bible study students. I can’t wait! Thanks for offering them as a free printable.