On Wednesday we hosted a Valentine party for the participants of our weekly playgroup, which was rather chaotic but also a successful and enjoyable event overall. Everyone wore red, pink, purple, or some combination thereof and brought a similar-colored snack to share. We had pre-baked heart-shaped sugar cookies and all the kids got to decorate one small and one large cookie, complete with sprinkles. One of the other playgroup moms spearheaded a Valentine's craft, a construction-paper covered "mailbox" in which to house valentine's cards. Big hit. Toward the end we played 'hunt the heart' in which 18 paper hearts, hand-cut and decorated by the monkey, were hidden throughout the first floor for the kids to find. We did two rounds, one for 4's and younger and one for the 5 to 7 crowd.
All told we had twenty-one children in attendance and about ten moms; everyone ended up with about a dozen Valentines to take home with them. (We exchanged family to family instead of kid to kid to cut down on the numbers and logistics.) My plan was to have the craft occur outside, but gale force winds that day prevented this from happening, so we used the school room instead, which worked ok.
It was certainly chaotic at times, to say the least, but well worth the effort and a success overall. The kids - who had particularly requested
that we throw the party - were very pleased. The sandbox was an especially big hit as the photo below attests. Funny to see all that red in one place...!
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