Valentine's Day!!

I am the roommom in Courtney's class and so it was my job to plan their Valentine's Day party. The teacher asked to just have something really easy.  She didn't want a ton of treats andjust want ed something fun and nice.  We decided to have the kids decorate paper bags for their Valentine's boxes and then we would play one game, pass out acrds and end the party.  Simple enough!

The day before the party, a dad called the teacher asking if he could do face painting, so he came also.

I braided Courtney's hair into a heart that morning and she was so excited.  We had spent the week before making friendship bracelets and putting them on a paper that said, "Our class would KNOT be the same without you."  They turned out really cute.

When I showed up we had the kids decorate their paper bags and then we played Valentine's Day bingo with conversation hearts as the markers.  The kids loved it and we played for about 25-30 minutes while the dad did the face painting. 

The teacher then read a few stories to the class, let them pass out their Valetines cards and then they got ready to go.  It was a simple party with not much to it but the kids loved it!

Courtney's heart french braid.

 Courtney and her friend.

 Face painting

 When Ethan got home from school, he and Courtney spread out all their "loot" to see what they had gotten.  Suckers were the popular item this year and neither one of them got a lot of chocolate (bummer!). 

The kids did a funny thing this year where they asked other kids to be their Valentine.  Ethan had a girl ask him to be her Valentine but just as friends because they are just good friends.  So she bought him a candy bar and he got her one.  Courtney had 3 Valentines and didn't seem to think anything was wrong with that because it doesn't mean you "like like" the person, it just means you are friends.  But she had a couple of cute Valentines cards in her bag when she got home. 

It caused some stress in the 3rd grade though.  One teacher told me she had gotten a phone call from a concerned mother who was told, by her child, that if you don't have a Valentine by Valentine's Day, that you would be called to the office and matched up with other "losers" who didn't have Valentines either.  I had to laugh but the poor kid was really stressed out!