Valentine's "We Love Our Family" Day

My husband has to work on Valentine's Day, but had this last Tuesday off. So we decided to celebrate Valentine's Day as a family and have a special "We Love Our Family" Day! (We were inspired by this post at Power of Moms.)

My husband and I made a list of some fun, simple activities, trying to make sure that each family member's favorites were represented. We asked the kids what they like to do as well. Then I used a cardboard amazon book mailer to create a treasure map for our day.

I'm no Martha Stewart, as you can see, but the kids loved it. The inside had a heart shape for every activity with a clue written on it. They had to match the heart sticker to the shape. The back of each matching sticker had the activity on it.

Front of the treasure map

Inside of treasure map

Completed treasure map

Here's the activities we had:

• Big Red Heart: Intro info and "Go to Dutch Bro's" hehehe 
• Little Hearts:
• Play with legos
• Race each other outside and play with bubbles
• Special Valentine's Day lunch
• Play Dance game on Wii
• Decorate cupcakes
• Group Hug
• Big pink heart: Take a family photo to remember the day

Playing the Wii dancing game

Watching

Failed cupcake attempt by yours truly

Failed second try

Resigned to make them into "cake balls". Kids were thrilled ;)

We also found time to let the kids make their own Valentines. At dinner, we had a large envelope (folded cardboard decorated with wrapping paper and hearts) that had love notes from my husband and I and Oma to each of the kids. We read them over dinner before taking our group picture.

Happy Valentine's Day!