INVITATIONS:

SETTING:

PARTY:

As your guests arrive present them with a clip on paper heart with their name on it. Start your party with craft activities. Instead of traditional Valentine paper crafts let your guests create their own Valentine toiletries which they can later give as a gift to someone. Many of the KFC kits can be converted into Valentine craft project by adding red and pink mica, glitter or die to the basic recipe. Among our favorites are Valentine Red Heart Soaps and Red & Pink Bath Salts:

To make a Red/Pink Heart Valentine Soap you'll need our red, pink Melt & Pour bases and heart shaped soap molds. You melt and pour the soap base into heart shape soap molds. It takes about an hour for the soap to solidify - you can use this time for games and other activities. Make your soaps truly unique by adding our heart shaped glitter, tea rose fragrance or romance fragrance. For picture instructions on soap making check out our Confetti Soap and Oatmeal, Milk & Honey Bar recipes.
Our other favorite are Valentine Bath Salts that will look exceptional packaged in heart shaped bottles. Checkout Bath Salts recipe for picture instructions.

Let your guests decorate and label their products. Have colored paper, scissors and crayons handy. Checkout our Valentine Labels Clip Art collection:



Distribute small sheets of colored paper for your guests to write a Valentine message. These Valentine messages will fit nicely to our cute Valentine Envelopes . Use one of the labels from Valentine Labels Clip Art as a seal.



After this "hard" work it's high time for fun and games, or did someone whisper"snacks"?:) Should you choose tummy treats skip this section and move to the next. For those who chose entertainment over alimentation here's a list of games that can make your heart leap.

Heart Search Before the party cut out paper hearts and think of fun tasks for your guests to act out. Hide the hearts around the house and instruct your guests to find all of them. When a heart is found the group has to act out whatever is written on the heart. You can keep track of who found a heart first and who performed the task the best. Winners can be awarded at the end.

Valentine Charades On stripes of paper write Valentine theme notions, phrases or words. Ex "cupid", "Valentine", "heart" for younger children or something more difficult like "love bug" or "in love" for teenagers; as extra fun you can think of something completely made up, ex "Valentine Soap" or "Valentine Pretzel". Distribute the stripes between 2 teams. A team calls out one person from the opposite team and gives him the paper stripe with the Valentine phrase. The person called has to act out, you can't speak, what's written on the paper and his team has to guess what's that word or phrase is. This is one of the best times to have a camera or video around.

Colored Hearts This is a fun game for younger kids. Have different color hearts scattered around the room. Play the music and let the kids run around. When the music stops a parent or one of the kids call a color "pink", "red", "yellow" etc. Once the color is called everyone should pick up the heart with this color. Those who failed are taken out of the game. The last to stay in the game wins. You can play this game couple of times - kids seem not to be tired of this game ever!

Take photos throughout the night to remember the event.

SNACKS:

A hearty meal of strawberry jam or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches cut out with a heart shaped cookie cutter, heart shaped red finger jelly, red heart cookies and a big heart shaped cake to crown it all! Let your heart rule your head - add your favorite tried and true recipes. Plus checkout some of our favorites below, you might lose your heart to them too;)

CHOCOLATE CENTERED VALENTINE BISCUITS

Ingredients:

• 7oz/200g plain flour
• 4oz/110g butter
• 3oz/85g caster sugar
• 1 egg, white only
• chocolate pieces/chocolate buttons/ M'MS - small bag

• ginger ale or carbonated drink
• strawberry ice cream
• whipped cream
• 1 teaspoon strawberry preserves

PARTY FAVORS:

Try our Valentine Cube as a packaging for small items. This cute 2"x2"x2" paper box will be a perfect packaging for 1 oz. jar of Body Glitter or strawberry flavor Shea Butter Lip Balm. Anything goes, fill it up with red and white M&M's or tiny sweets. You will need cardstock or heavy paper, scissors, a color printer and our Valentine Cube template to make one.



Stock up Valentine goody bags with Valentine candy, heart shaped cookies and bubble gum. Add a hear shaped bottle of bath salt, strawberry flavor shea butter lip balm , pink pig scrub, nylon bath gloves and one of our adorable miniature soaps. For more gift ideas check out our selection of Bath Accessories and Packaging Items. Stick a heart with the guest's name on it to each bag. Let every guest take a bar of heart shaped soap and red/pink colored bath salts they made during the party.

Happy Valentine!

If making goody bags is not your style or if you're just short of time, you might consider purchasing our $5 or $10 gift certificates as gifts for your guests. Introducing your friends to Kits For Crafts would be the best gift you can give!