Then I am going to do a few minute it win it style games. Stacking large conversation hearts, a candy relay, and something else that I can't remember.
Snacks will be a build your own valentine trail mix. Popcorn, pretzels, m&ms, heart shaped cereal, etc. I will do some type of red punch, maybe muffins or cupcakes.
We will probably decorate bags too for their valentines.
I might put together a word search with all their names too. I have 90 minutes for this party, so I want to make sure I have plenty of activities.
Post by lavender444 on Jan 27, 2015 17:06:43 GMT -5
Our teachers are lame a veto almost all of out plans. Our kindergarten classes are making (another) necklace with yarn,, cut up paper straws and paper hearts, and a love bug hat. Snacks are 2 mini muffins, heart shaped fruit on a Popsicle stick and water. Then they get to open Valentin's.
We sent in a proposal with all kinds of fun games, but they want the kids controlled and in their seats. Heaven forbid a kindergartner has some fun at a end of the day class party.
From our meeting notes: Valentine mailbox competition where kids can choose one of 5 categories to compete. (Patriotic, Travel, Favorite Book or Character, School PRIDE, Best Valentine's Day Themes.) The teacher is doing a writing assignment where each kid does an affirmation for the other students in class; that way if someone doesn't have Valentine's cards or candy, they will still have something to hand out.
For the party, set up their decorated mailboxes in one room during lunch and will have ballots for judging. The kids can walk in a line around the room looking at the entries and vote for one in each category.
Snacks of cupcakes and punch (I love the trail mix/popcorn idea. Salty to counterbalance all the sweet.)
"Classmate Scavenger Hunt" in the form of a BINGO board. They would be looking for a classmate to initial a square on their board. Once square may say, "Loves to Write" or "Won an Award" or "Can speak Pig Latin" while we count ballots. The last 10 minutes will be the Awards Ceremony and we will be announcing the winner for each category and handing out prizes and award certificates.
daisyheadmaizie our kids did that craft with construction paper back in third grade, as pockets. I think it was the pocket thing that threw them off. They were having a lot of trouble with it for some reason.
For our fall party we did in-class games like Jenga, Apples-to-Apples, Stacking Cups. We had a "scarecrow" relay race where the kids formed teams; one was picked as the "scarecrow" and the others on the team ran in relays from the scarecrow to a stack of clothes, picked an item, dressed, ran to the scarecrow, took the item off, the scarecrow dressed while the next person ran to get the next item of clothing. Something like this only more Valentine-y would be fun.
We do four stations, five kids per station. We have less than ten minutes for most stations so we have to do really simple things. Then we're also handing out/opening cards.
Station 1 will be their snack, they will make their own strawberry shortcake.
Station 2 will be a craft. I chose this:
Station 3 will be a couple of games. They have to stack as many conversation hearts as they can in one minute. The other little game we're doing is they have to get as many conversation hearts in their cup using chopsticks (the kid chopsticks).
Station 4 will be a bing bag toss into a big cut out heart.
Bingo is always a fun option but I did that for the Christmas party.
By kid chopsticks - do you mean ones tied together with a rubber band? I like this idea.
I got these from Amazon but one of the Pinterest pins said she got them from her local Chinese restaurant. We can always use these with David so I just bought them. They're an add-on item.
I'm sure rubber bands would work great! Why didn't I think of that?
We do four stations, five kids per station. We have less than ten minutes for most stations so we have to do really simple things. Then we're also handing out/opening cards.
Station 1 will be their snack, they will make their own strawberry shortcake.
Station 2 will be a craft. I chose this:
Station 3 will be a couple of games. They have to stack as many conversation hearts as they can in one minute. The other little game we're doing is they have to get as many conversation hearts in their cup using chopsticks (the kid chopsticks).
Station 4 will be a bing bag toss into a big cut out heart.
Bingo is always a fun option but I did that for the Christmas party.
Thanks! I already had all of the supplies but the heart and I found a 10 pack at the dollar store! Cheap. I love the Dollar Store for this stuff.
Me too! I've also found that Michael's heavily discounts their holiday stuff the week of the holiday, so I'll sometimes hold off and then go get cute napkins and accessories for really cheap.
Thanks! I already had all of the supplies but the heart and I found a 10 pack at the dollar store! Cheap. I love the Dollar Store for this stuff.
Me too! I've also found that Michael's heavily discounts their holiday stuff the week of the holiday, so I'll sometimes hold off and then go get cute napkins and accessories for really cheap.
Yes! I was just there last week and got a heart punch for $3.99. I'm just going to punch out a bunch of hearts from my sparkly scrap book paper that they can glue on the heart man for hands and feet. I'd spend more than $3.99 for stickers and I can keep the heart punch!
I love the heart baskets you're doing. Where did you find that? I haven't seen it anywhere.