Valentine's Day powerfulness locomote my favorite twenty-four hr menstruation to celebrate inwards the classroom. I beloved all the sweetness picayune cards students write for each other. And chocolate. Chocolate is ever good!
Are you lot getting cook to conception a Valentine's Day political party for your students? How well-nigh a STEM political party or a Minute-to-Win-It party? Or, peradventure you'd similar to essay something actually dissimilar alongside a kindness party? I gathered some fun in addition to engaging ideas for you lot to celebrate the friendships inwards your classroom.
STEM Party
My students beloved the challenges that I give them alongside STEM projects. They volition beloved that I alter upwards our room for a STEM twenty-four hr menstruation alongside Valentine's Day themed decorations in addition to supplies.
Your students tin engineer structures out of toothpicks in addition to heart-shaped jelly candy or pump shaped marshmallows. Or, how well-nigh a heart-launcher catapult? Students tin also brand Valentine's Day slime with added sequins, glitter, or confetti.
You tin acquire to a greater extent than well-nigh these ideas from Little Bins Little Hands yesteryear clicking HERE.
Minute-to-Win-it Party
Students beloved playing games in addition to you lot tin maintain your students highly engaged alongside some Valentine's Day themed Minute-to-Win-it games.
How well-nigh playing Heart Stack? Students must stack candy hearts on a popsicle every bit high every bit they tin inwards 1 minute. Take the same furnish of candy hearts (because let's confront it, they receive got fallen on the flooring a few times already), in addition to play Bottle Drop. Using empty narrow-top bottles, students must essay to drib every bit many of the candy hearts every bit they tin into the bottle from a standing seat alongside the bottle on the pose down inwards 1 minute.
You tin uncovering directions in addition to to a greater extent than game ideas from Together every bit Family yesteryear clicking HERE.
Students tin also play candy pump relay races in addition to pump transfer games alongside straws or popsicle sticks. Click HERE to encounter directions to these games in addition to other fun ideas yesteryear Happiness is Homemade.
Spread Kindness Party
This may non locomote your typical party, only it volition attention your students experience that they made a deviation in addition to you lot are didactics them life skills of beingness sort to others. The reckon kickoff came to me when I read some ideas inwards the Not So Wimpy Fifth Grade Teachers Facebook group. They were looking for service projects to consummate every bit a possible choice to a typical party.
You could acquire the twenty-four hr menstruation started yesteryear reading the majority The Jelly Donut Difference. It is an adorable story well-nigh kindness in addition to generosity.
Ideas shared inwards our teacher Facebook groups included making valentines for veterans or a nursing home. Another proposition was to brand fleece blankets for children inwards need. I also loved the proposition well-nigh making heart-shaped animals to mail to your local children's infirmary to decorate doors.
You could also spread kindness yesteryear having your students write give cheers you lot messages on hearts in addition to record to staff members' doors unopen to your schoolhouse (nurse's office, principal's office, secretary's desk, music teacher, custodians, etc.)
Another reckon is to participate inwards the Kindness Rocks Project yesteryear having your students pigment rocks alongside sweetness messages. They tin accept these abode in addition to receive got their families attention them produce upwards one's hear where to acquire out it, or you lot tin railroad train an surface area inwards your schoolhouse for your ain motivational stone garden. Click HERE to encounter some ideas well-nigh decorating your kindness rocks.
You tin halt your twenty-four hr menstruation yesteryear sharing some treats (maybe donuts?!) in addition to Valentine cards for each other. Have a shape conversation well-nigh how they tin proceed acts of kindness throughout the year.
Paper Bag Book
At the halt of whatever Valentine's Day party, I similar to receive got students brand these fun newspaper purse books. They are super unproblematic to brand yesteryear folding a few newspaper tiffin bags in addition to stapling the spine. Students relish writing well-nigh all of the things they love!
This arts and crafts is a skillful 1 for calming them downwards later the fun political party games!
I promise you lot in addition to your students fill upwards your twenty-four hr menstruation alongside love, kindness, in addition to laughter!
Have a Not So Wimpy day!
