Valentines Day Games For Preschoolers

If you are organizing a Valentine's Day party for kids, games are necessary.

These are some games appropriate for the preschool crowd.

Preschool-age children like to fish. You can make a fishing game with little toy fishing poles and hearts ( as fish ). Use an empty plastic tub as your "lake" and put into it red hearts cut out of construction paper or cardstock. Each heart is good for a prize.

One could be good for a Hershey's kiss, or other tiny candy, another could be for a tiny plastic heart. Put magnets on the cardstock hearts and a magnet on the fishing pole. Then the youngsters can "fish" for hearts and win a prize at the same time. Each kid should be permitted to "catch" one fish each. Preschoolers love balloons and you can make a heart target for them to target their balloons at. Make a target out of card or heavy cardstock and put it on the floor somewhere. You may want to have many targets on the floor. Give the youngsters balloons that were blown up but are not tied shut. Let them let go of the balloons in the direction of the target and see where their balloon lands.

Be forewarned : youngsters will desire to play this repeatedly again. So either have lots of balloons good to go ( maybe held closed with a clothespin ) or have lots of adults around who need to blow up balloon after balloon. You may also play a similar game by putting a heart target into a box or washing basket and having the youngsters attempt to hit the target with an inflated balloon. Be certain to provide prizes for everyone! Preschool age kids love a good game of "Duck Duck Goose" or "Simon Says". For Valentine's Day, you can put a twist on these classic games. Have the youngsters play a game of "Cupid, Cupid, Love" rather than "Duck, Duck, Goose" or have them play "Cupid Says" rather than "Simon Says". Be certain to add a smooch at the end of each order in "Cupid Says" or have the children incorporate Valentine's Day activities, like "Cupid claims, give your neighbor a hug".

This may be a game small children love. Have them "throw smiles" at every other.

Sit them in a circle and show them the way in which the game will work. Just one person in the group will grin first. He'll grin wildly and widely for the entire group. The remainder of the group will not grin, not even a little miniscule smile. Once the smiling person is done, they can literally "wipe" the grin off their face and pass it to the following person in the group, who will repeat the wide grin and hope no-one guffaws. The children that laugh or grin are out of the game ( people who should be stone-faced any way ). The game can continue till just one stone-faced person is left. Be certain to provide each kid with a fun prize just for trying. Preschool teachers might need to inspire creative thinking with a little game of "Valentine's twenty questions".

The teacher can have a visible to mind, which could be a heart, or Cupid, or a card or something relative to the vacation. The teacher claims "I'm thinking...:" and the children must ask questions about what the teacher is thinking. The teacher can give miniscule clues along the way particularly if he or she is losing the interest of the more youthful children in the group. Whoever figures out what the teacher is thinking can be the following one to begin the following round of twenty questions.

Be certain to ask the kid what they are thinking before the subsequent round starts or it might go on longer than it desires to! Kids love "pin the story on the donkey" so why not "pin the heart on Cupid"? In this game, simply provide each kid with a huge red heart with their name on it. Have a huge cutout of Cupid on a wall and blindfold each kid, spin her or him around and have them stick their heart on Cupid ( there should be adhesive of some sort on the back of the heart ). Once everybody has stuck their hearts, let them look at where they ended up.