Valentine Treasure Hunt

• Design an active Valentine's party game by setting up a treasure hunt for holiday related prizes like candy, heart-shaped erasers, pencils or stuffed animals. Hide objects around the room or yard such as plastic hearts, cupid stickers or slips of paper featuring hand-drawn flowers or hearts. Give the kids 30 seconds to find as many of the objects as they can. When the game is over, line the kids up according to how many "tokens" they found during the treasure hunt. Let the child who found the most choose a prize first and continue down the line until all of the participants receive a gift.
  
  

Tower of Hearts

• Turn large candy conversation hearts into game pieces. Give the kids one minute to see who can stack the colorful hearts into the tallest tower without falling over. If your supply of candy hearts is limited, have the kids compete in different "heats" or alter the contest to see who can make a stack of 10 hearts in the fastest time. Make the contest more challenging for older kids by requiring them to take turns adding candy hearts to the same stack or telling them to follow specific color patterns when creating their own candy heart stacks.
  
  

Cartoon Couples

• Test the kids' knowledge of cartoons, movies and fictional book characters with a love-related trivia contest. Devise questions for the quiz to see if the kids can match famous pairs like Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Fred and Wilma Flintstone or Barbie and Ken. Also give multiple choice questions on where the fictional couples live, what the characters do for a living and if the couples have children, for example.
  
  

Memory Match

• Design a deck of cards for a Valentine-themed memory matching game. Affix pairs of matching shapes to 20 3-by-5-inch index cards with glue or double-sided tape. Use Valentine-related stickers, die cuts, rubber-stamped or hand-drawn images in shapes like hearts, cupids, arrows, Valentine's Day cards, roses and boxes of candy. The players take turns turning over two of the cards, hoping to find a match. If one child does make a match, he gets to remove the cards from the table. The winner of the Valentine party game is the player who has the most cards once the kids have matched all of the pairs and cleared the cards from the table.