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Put Your Heart into It!
Grab
Valentine’s Day conversation heart candies
Computer and printer
Small, heart-shaped box of chocolates
Pink carnation
Valentine’s Day greeting card
Money
Car keys
Go
Love is in the air on Valentine’s Day! Find printable Valentine’s bingo pages online at websites such as dltk-kids.com, makingfriends.com, or Crayola.com. Print out a few bingo pages and use conversation heart candies as game markers. Have your daughter dress for the occasion in holiday colors such as red, pink, or purple.
At the beginning of your date, present your daughter with a box of chocolates, a pink carnation, and a Valentine’s Day greeting card. Take her, along with the bingo game and heart candies, to an ice cream parlor. Order an ice cream sundae to share and play a few bingo games together. Flip the bingo pages over and draw tic-tac-toe grids and hangman games on the back. Use the conversation hearts as your tic-tac-toe markers and come up with Valentine’s-themed words to guess for hangman. End the date with a hug and an “I love you!”
Grow
On Valentine’s Day we show our love in so many ways—gifts, flowers, candy, and fun memories together. While we take a day to remember how much we love each other, we can also remember how very much our Father in heaven loves us! Read these verses together:
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Eph. 3:17–19)
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. (1 John 4:7–12)
Dear Lord,
Thank you for your love that is “wide and long and high and deep.” Help us to know it! And please give us love for one another because you have loved us first. Thank you for this great day to express our love for each other. Please help us to show it every day of the year. Amen!