How To Create A Funtastical Valentines Day Party For Your Kids

This year I promised my kids a Valentines party!  Not every year does this happen, but this year seemed like a good time to have one.  So the planning began, starting with a few invites, and we were on our way.

So today I welcome you to our Funtastical Valentines party!  Sit back and relax as the work has been
all done!   I know how busy and energetic kids can be so I wanted to include a variety of activities for them to do to keep them going.  

Since I love including art in our events, this Valentines party was going to be no exception.  I have  learned that when having a group of kids it is good to be organized!  So I had some preparing to do in order for things to go smoothly.  Things such as having all my art supplies out and set up, water jugs, paint brushes, paper, and of course cupcakes.

The kids arrived with stacks of Valentines to hand out, and if they didn't have any red on them they were sure to get a splash of red face paint on their cheek.  

I decided to use the cupcakes as my canvas.  We painted them by using food colouring mixed with water, and a brand new pack of paint brushes. You really can paint just about anything!  It was just like using water colours, except on icing.  Adding sparkles and hearts was the extra little touch to have some fabulous looking cupcakes that quickly got gobbled up by some hungry little artists (I don't think I have ever eaten my artwork before).

                         

And what would be cupcakes without a nice steeped cup of bubblegum tea?  A perfect match for any Valentines day party.  We added a splash of very berry juice to cool it off.   It was a great hit as the kids drank from their dainty little china teacups.

With blue and purple lips, they were ready for some Valentine art!  I choose a project that was fairly simple for all ages, and fun at the same time.  Glue, salt and watercolours!  Taking my glue bottle, I used the end like a pencil and generously squeezed out glue to form hearts.  I then added some salt and shook it around so that it stuck to the glue.  The last step was to take liquid watercolours and an eyedropper and add them to the salt.  It created a cool looking piece of art! 

Who knew that food colouring could make such faces?

My next plan was a candy hunt outside to help get some of that energy out.  The only problem is that I had to be a little flexible with this as the weather wasn't cooperating too well.  We had very cold temperatures and a chilly windchill.  So I originally was going to bury a bag full of treasure (candy) in the snow out back but decided to bring things inside.  I created different clues for the kids to find and then they had to go as a group and find the buried treasure.  It wasn't too buried in my purple bath tub!  There lay candy for all!!!  Just what every kid needs after some very sweet cupcakes.

It was lots of fun to have the kids over and they all played so well . We moms even got a chance to sit and chat. A Valentines party that I know my kids will remember for a long time as they had fun playing and creating with others!