Valentine’s Day can be such a sweet and fun day to show each member of your family that you love them while also training your children how to love others well. With a little creativity and preparation, you can spend the two weeks of February leading up to Valentine’s Day showering your family with love and encouraging them to show love to others as well! Keep reading for some fun, simple, creative family Valentine’s day traditions we incorporate to make Valentine’s Day special in our home!

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- Show love with words by creating a Love Wall
- Show love with actions by completing random acts of kindness towards others in your family
- Memorize scripture that encourages everyone towards love
- Enjoy love themed books together
- Spend intentional time with the ones you love
- Simple gifts that show love
- Have a special Valentine’s Day meal to celebrate
Family Valentine’s Day Tradition: The Love Wall

We love to start February 1st by beginning our Love Wall! Each night during dinner, we go around our table and ask each person to share something they love about another member of our family. As we do this, we remind our kids that love can be easily expressed with words. Next, we ask them to notice how they feel when someone says something loving to them. This helps them recognize the value of using words to express love.

With the youngest kids, it is sometimes easier to get them share something they love to do with another member of the family, which is a little less abstract of a concept for them. We write each answer down on a separate paper heart and attach them to the wall near our dining table. For the rest of February they serve as a cute decoration and a reminder of all the things we love about one another.
Random Acts of Kindness as a Valentine’s Day Tradition
A new idea that we are adding to our family Valentine’s day traditions will be Random Acts of Kindness! I plan to keep a printed list of random acts of kindness that our kids can do to show love through service towards one another. Most of these our older kids will be able to accomplish on their own, some may need some assistance from a parent, but we will gladly pitch in to help them learn to love others by serving them!
As the two weeks leading up to Valentine’s day continue, we hope that we will find an abundance of opportunities to practice Romans 12:10, “Outdo one another in showing honor.” Our hope in this is that it will create momentum and a habit of looking for tangible ways to serve others that continues into the rest of the year!
Memorize Scripture

Our family is always working on memorizing scripture together. Every morning we sit down to breakfast and read the Bible aloud, practice our Catechism question and whatever verse or verses I’ve selected for us to memorize together, and sing a hymn. Here are some scripture memory ideas for February that will remind your family to love as you have been loved!
- 1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all that you do be done in love.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
- 1 Peter 4:8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
- 1 John 4:19 We love because He first loved us.
Many of these verses have songs that you can sing along to practice with! Search your favorite streaming music platform for Slugs & Bugs, Seeds Kids Worship or the scripture reference to find a song you can sing along with! I love that this tradition incorporates into our daily rhythm so easily, while still helping us to focus on love throughout the Valentine’s season.
Love Themed Books

We love to focus on seasonal books throughout the year. Especially with my younger children, I find that emphasizing these books by having them out on display and reading them often, brings excitement and joy to each season! Here are a handful of our favorite Valentine books!
- The Valentine Bears by Eve Bunting
- Saint Valentine the Kind Hearted by Ned Bustard
- I Love You Like No Otter by Rose Rossner
- Click Clack Moo, I Love You by Doreen Cronin
- Bear Hugs by Karma Wilson

Spend Intentional Time Together
We try to make an effort during February to do the things our kids love most as often as we can. Each of our kids have different favorite things to do as a family but it seems most everyone loves hiking, playing games together, reading aloud all snuggled together on the couch, and cooking together. We try to make these things a priority during February to show our children a little extra love, and to model what it means to intentionally give our time and attention to those we love!
Simple Gifts That Show Love
Each Valentine’s day, we try to round up a few inexpensive but fun gifts for our kids to set on the table for them to wake up to that morning. Some ideas include bubbles, craft supplies, a new book, game or puzzle, and a handwritten note from mom and dad. Wrap a ribbon around your sweet little gifts and your children will be utterly delighted and feel so loved. This is one of our family Valentine’s day traditions that brings so much joy, but as we explain to our kids why we picked each item, they learn a little bit about how to be good gift givers themselves.
A Special Valentine’s Day Meal
Our kids love a family tradition centered around a special meal. For us on Valentine’s day, this means pink waffles with whipped cream, sprinkles and strawberries sliced into hearts for breakfast. For dinner I make our traditional homemade pizza recipe, but take it up a notch with pepperonis cut into heart shapes. I usually serve these two meals on disposable Valentines day plates, which I always pick up the day or two after Valentines day the year before and toss into my Spring holiday box to make it an easy and cheap addition to the day!
There are so many ways to show our kids love and to model for them what it means to love others! It’s been such fun to incorporate family Valentine’s day traditions to focus on loving well in the month of February and it’s effects echo through the rest of the year! What are some of your families favorite ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day? Comment below some ideas you have or which ones from this list you’d like to try!


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