5+ Simple Valentine’s Day Ideas for Families in Friday’s Fast Five 25th Edition
Building a stronger, happier family is at the top of most parents’ list. However, we are busy! These weekly Fast Five ideas and tips are a quick way to brainstorm, check-in, and create the family relationships you really want. This week’s Fast Five has a love theme with Valentine’s Day ideas for families that include ways to have fun, learn, serve, and more. Happy Friday!
* These ideas are NOT meant to be a checklist or guilt trip of things we “should do.” Rather, they are intended to inspire you to find what works for YOUR family to learn, laugh, and love together. Remember to stick to the Simple Side of Parenting.
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What is Friday’s Fast Five?
Each Friday, we share five quick and simple ideas for families under the following categories:
- Something fun
- A Little Lesson
- A Service Idea
- Something Random
- A Quick Tip
As I try to simplify my own parenting journey and help others do the same, these help us think about what I feel is a simple version of good parenting…learn, laugh, love.
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With that, here is the twenty-fifth edition of Friday’s Fast Five. (You can find other editions HERE.)
1. Something Fun: Love-Themed Food
Eating is a must, so we might as well make it fun for Valentine’s Day.
Serving red or heart-themed foods are a simple way to bring fun to the holiday.
11 Valentine’s Day Food Ideas
- Use cookie cutters to make heart-shaped pancakes, sandwiches, waffles, or other foods
- Put pancake batter in an empty condiment squeeze bottle (like from ketchup). You can then write names, words like LOVE, draw pictures, and make virtually any shaped pancake with the batter.
- Raspberries
- Strawberries
- Watermelon
- Strawberry milk
- Berry Smoothie
- Blend 2 cups water, 1 cup spinach, 2 cups frozen berries, and 1 banana. Adjust the thickness to your liking: add more water to thin or more berries to thicken.
- Raspberry or strawberry flavored yogurt
- Cherry tomatoes
- Decorate heart-shaped sugar cookies
- Cut English muffins into a heart shape and have mini heart pizzas
2. A Little Lesson: Valentine’s Day Ideas for Families to Talk, Sing, Read, Write, and Play about Love
The activities of talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing are the foundation of building a strong reader.
So have discussions about how we can love others (even when it’s hard), sing songs about love or Valentine’s day, read books that tell stories about love, write your own stories or practice writing with Valentine’s Day Printables, or play games that involve hearts or simply kindness.
Lucky for you, we’ve pulled together tons of those ideas for you! 😉
20+ Activities about Love for Kids
This post shares over 20 Valentine’s Day ideas for families that are geared toward preschoolers particularly and these five foundational activities.
Wondering how to fit Little Lessons into your busy family schedule?
The two main ways to fit important lessons into your busy family schedule are to find spontaneous teaching moments throughout the day and to schedule family learning time each week. These two posts go into detail about these two ways and tips for making it happen with your family.
How Busy Parents Can Teach Important Life Lessons
6 Tips for Family Time that Teaches Life’s Most Important Lessons
3. A Service Idea: Handmade Valentines
This idea is an oldie but a goodie.
Get out the crafts supplies like paper, markers, crayons, doilies, glitter, stickers, and more. Make good old-fashioned Valentine’s Day cards for a neighbor, friend, family member, elderly individual, or someone who might be feeling lonely.
If you’re looking for simple ways to serve your kiddos, check out these 5 unique Valentine’s Day gifts for kids.
Service is a great way to build a stronger, happier family. If you want more service ideas, request Raising Compassionate Children in a Conceited World, which includes 101 Service Ideas for Families.
4. Something Random: Valentines for School
Patience is a virtue…
Hang in there!
5. A Quick Tip: Love You Forever
Here’s one of my favorites…
This quote comes from one of my favorite love stories about a mom and her son: Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.
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Fair warning, this one usually makes me cry. But my kids love it too, and the message is oh so true. We do love our kiddos forever, through every stage and season, the difficult and fun. “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always.”
Valentine’s Day is also the perfect excuse (if you feel like you need one) to get out on a date. Remember, our kids are always learning about relationships and love by how they see us interact with our spouse, partner, or significant other.
So this quick tip is to use Valentine’s Day as yet another way to show our families unconditional love.
I hope you have a happy, loving Valentine’s Day with all the loves of your life!
And that is Friday’s Fast Five!
You can also see Friday’s Fast Five on Instagram or other editions HERE.
Building a Stronger, Happier Family
It takes time and intention to build a stronger, happier family. I hope Friday’s Fast Five helps you find the ways that work for YOUR family to learn, laugh, and love together.
We will never regret the time we devote to our families and relationships with our kids.
Have a great weekend with your family, know that you’re loved, and keep on lovin’!
Do you have a great idea for a future Friday’s Fast Five? Have a question or parenting struggle you want help with? Share in the comments, shoot me an Email, or schedule a call.
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