Creative Valentine’s Day activities help students and families celebrate the never-ending love of Jesus. In your Sunday school classes and children’s ministry activities, share that God loves each of his children (no matter their age)!
Below are three fantastic February-themed kidmin ideas.
3 Valentine’s Day Activities for Sunday School
Here are three lovely activities that readers submitted:
1. Valentine Boxes
You’ll need:
- Valentine boxes (see ideas below)
- cards
- small gifts (like packs of tea, small candies, or magnets)
Have your elementary kids decorate, fill, and personally deliver valentine boxes to senior church members. Children can fill the boxes with valentine cards, packets of tea and cocoa, small candies, and a “Jesus Loves You” magnet. Your kids and adults will be blessed by this project.
For fun valentine boxes, try one of these:
- Take-Out Style: You’ll need large unmarked restaurant-style food cartons. Kids can use stickers and markers to decorate the boxes.
- Collage Boxes: You’ll need papier-mâché or cardboard boxes (available at craft stores). Have kids cut out pictures, words, or phrases from magazines. Kids might find words such as “great,” “wise one,” or “loving Jesus.” Have kids glue these images and words to the boxes using Mod Podge.
2. Prayer Valentines
You’ll need:
- hearts cut from red construction paper
- hole punch
- white yarn
- marker or pen
Encourage your church to give the children in your ministry a Prayer Valentine. Around the first of February, write each child’s name and age on a red cut-out heart. On the back, write Ephesians 4:14-19—the Scripture reference only, not the words.
Punch a hole in the top of each heart and pull white yarn through the hole. Tie the yarn and hang these hearts from the ceiling in your church foyer.
Then post a sign in the foyer and place an announcement in your worship bulletin (for several weeks). Explain that church members can take one or more hearts and pray the Scripture for children until Easter.
If any hearts remain by Valentine’s Day, give them to your staff to pray for those children.
