Valentine's Day Party

Valentine’s Day party!! This is great for couples you know who don’t want to spend a ton of money going out for v day. It is also great for a pre-teen/teen party to keep your teen out of any trouble, and keep the romance level at g rated.

If you have a 14 year old daughter or a daughter of 12-18 you may like this idea and parents of teenage boys please don’t let me discourage you from trying this either. Now my daughter is single and isn’t allowed to date till she is 16 but this is still a great idea for her to get into the spirit! Would you like to keep an eye on your child’s Valentine’s Day activities? Well here’s an idea - throw a party. Make it a surprise party and invite her friends with a plus 1 on the card for older teens and her boyfriend/girlfriend, if your child has one. Send the invite out via one good friend of your daughter/son then 2 days before and with the RSVPs go ahead and send your daughter/son the invite with a big yelling of surprise!!!  You do want to give them time to get ready for the party too and maybe even help clean up the house.  In my home I could combine the parent and teen parties easily, a lot of my friends have kids my daughter age who are also her good friends.

Ok party details.

Costume parties are always fun, but you must set the theme. It's more fun when everyone has to dress in an era, or like a theme. I did one with everyone dressing like the 1940's, and let me tell you if 12 year olds can figure it out so can your friends and teens.

Food:

Rent or buy or burrow a chocolate fountain. Grab lots of strawberries, bananas, sponge cake and any other fruit you like with chocolate. Cut them up the day of, buy them the day before. Teen food- make some brownies, add fudge frosting and heart sprinkles, sugar cookies in the shape of hearts, frosted or not up 2 you. Add a bag or two of chips, dip and maybe even sandwiches cut into hearts with cookie cutters. Cherry grenadine in sprite with a few cherries in a bowl next to it completes the teen food.


For Adults kill the heart sandwiches and any thing else that seems to youthful to you.Instead go for a few appetizers/ desserts from our starts and ends section.

Games:

 I love my neighbor- everyone sits down in a circle and someone in the middle yells I love my neighbor that has brown hair (example) then everyone with brown hair has to stand up and switch places with someone else who also stood up. Mean while the person in the middle tries to take an open seat, leaving a different man out. Then next middle person says what they love about their neighbor, all of those people stands up and the middle person tries to take a seat from someone else, if they fail they just go again and so on till the kids get board of that.

Celebrity couples- before everyone comes, you will come up with a list of celebrity couples, and have cards made up with a few details of the female with some snidbits about their boyfriend and visa versa alot of details about that male with some snidbits about their wife/girlfriend. Give out the cards and have everyone study them and put them in their pockets. They are not allowed to say who they are or who they are dating, married to etc. Then have them mingle and tell some of the details about themselves and even ask others in the room specific questions about who they only from info on their cards to see if any answers match up to their cards. You keep playing trying to find their other member of the relationship they are in, first pair to couple up wins.

What do you love about me? -Send one person out of the room. While that person is gone, the remaining people choose something that the whole group has in common with this person. Something they like about the exited person. It can be a body part (hair, height), physical possession (cars, pants), or more abstract things, like a sense of humor or a favorite pastime. When the exiled person returns, he or she asks each player, “What do you love about me?” Each person responds with an adjective, oly an adjective. For example, if the item is “hair,” the adjectives could be “lustrous,” “brown,” or “curly.” The trick is trying to use descriptive adjectives that are clever but don’t give away the answer too easily. When the exited person gets it correctly they choose the next person to leave.

Decorations – The trick here is age appropriate. Streamers, balloons  cool teen plates and posters such as twilight and heart cutouts in a few places with Hershey’s hugs and kisses  and conversation hearts spread all over plus a few paper pink, white and red table cloths is great for teen parties.

For adult party decorations- White or black table cloths, some red doilies, some flowers and candles, something sparkling (I use grape juice but whatever you prefer), a few good looking platters with great appetizers (look in our starts and ends section) the Hersey’s hugs and kisses everywhere. And maybe a few printed out love sayings draped around the room for some interest could be great.

Invites- Ok for adults you could just call them, if you’re from a fun group like I am you can send out the ones I’ve already made up. Look for them in the valentine section  you will be able to edit them as long as you have word. Coming soon.