5 Valentine’s Day traditions for families
Last Updated on April 1, 2024
Valentine’s Day is a great time to celebrate the meaning of love and kindness with your family, and one way that you can do this is by starting a Valentine’s Day tradition that you think your family will love.
If you’d like to start a family friendly Valentine’s Day tradition, here are 5 ideas that you can choose from.
Love note scavenger hunt
Kids love scavenger hunts, so a Valentine’s Day themed scavenger hunt you can do is to cut out some paper hearts, with each kid having a different coloured heart, and once done writing things you love about your kids on them.
Your kids then need to search for their coloured hearts in the places you’ve hidden them, before reading what you love about them on it.
Love jar
A love jar is a Valentine’s Day tradition where you place a jar somewhere that’s accessible for everyone, and leave some paper and a pen beside it.
Throughout the month of January, and up until Valentine’s Day, each family member can write a note to another family member saying the things they love about them, or even just anything positive or encouraging.
On Valentine’s Day the notes will be taken out of the jar and read out loud to the whole family.
Acts of kindness
Doing an act of kindness for other family members is a really nice thing to do on Valentine’s Day.
You can do this by allocating each family member another family member who they need to something nice for, which can include things such as:
- Helping them with a problem
- Making their bed
- Putting toys away
- Helping do some kid friendly chores
- Making family members a treat
Giving small gifts
For your Valentine’s Day tradition, you may decide to leave your family members a small Valentine’s Day gift at the end of their bed, or on their bedside table, which may include:
- Heart shaped chocolate or candy
- Small plush toy
- Books
- Socks or underwear with hearts on them
Love themed lunch
Another Valentine’s Day family tradition that you may like to try is to have a Valentine’s Day lunch, or add a little Valentine’s Day theme to a school lunch, if your kids are at school on Valentine’s Day, which may mean:
- Cutting sandwiches into heart shapes using a heart cookie cutter
- Putting fruit inside a heart shaped muffin tin
- Adding a heart shaped cookie or chocolate as a treat
There are so many ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day as a family, and starting a Valentine’s Day family tradition is a perfect way.
Whether it’s by writing kind words, buying small gifts, showing acts of kindness, or putting a Valentine’s Day spin on lunch, Valentine’s Day can be enjoyed by everyone, not just couples, or parents who can’t get time to themselves.
Are there any Valentine’s Day traditions here that you may like to try?
