3 Creative Valentine’s Day Ideas for Your Children’s Ministry
These 3 creative Valentine’s Day ideas submitted by our readers are a fantastic way to celebrate God’s love this February.
1. Valentine Boxes
Consider having your elementary kids decorate, fill, and personally deliver valentine boxes to your senior church members. The 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
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. Post a sign in the foyer and place an announcement in your church bulletin (for several weeks), explaining that church members can take one or more hearts and pray the Scripture for children until Easter.
If any hearts aren’t taken by Valentine’s Day, give them to your staff to pray for those children.
3. Woven With Love
Your kids will enjoy creating this giant valentine for your neighborhood. First, you’ll need permission to use a large area of a chain-link fence on your property or near your church. You’ll also need several rolls of red and white crepe paper streamers.
Explain to children that they’re going to work together as they weave streamers in and out of the fence to create a design. Have children brainstorm what kind of image could communicate God’s love to people as they drive or walk by the fence. Children may decide to create a white heart with a red cross in the center. Or they may choose to create three hearts for the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Once the design is created, gather around the fence and pray that God will use the image to show people how much he loves them. Then take a picture of your weavers and their creation. Celebrate with hot cocoa and heart-shaped sugar cookies.
Looking for even more great Valentine’s Day ideas? Check out all our Valentine’s Day posts.
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