Valentine’s Day

Use these 15-minute lessons to show your students how important it is to love their families. 

Pre-K and kindergarten Hug Book

What you need: crayons, 3x5 cards, a stapler

Tell the class that Valentine's Day is a great time to tell people how much you love them.  So you're all going to make "Hug Books" for our parents.

Give each child 10 3x5 cards.  Have them draw and color pictures on their cards of things they love.  Help kids pile the 10 cards on top of each other and staple them together like a book (you do the stapling and keep little fingers clear!).

Tell your students that Jesus likes it when we show our parents how much we love them.  And hugs are a great way to do that!.  Tell them to give their mom and dad their hug book on Valentine's Day.

Tell kids to tear off a page and give it to you.  Then give them each a big hug as they give you the page from their book.  Send home instruction sheets to explain that parents need to give a hug in exchange for each page. 

Close your class session with a prayer of thanks for parents.

Grades 1-3 Family Hearts

What you need: Poster board (a sheet for each child), red construction paper, markers, scissors, glue sticks

Give each child a sheet of poster board.  Have kids draw eight big hearts on their poster.  Then have them cut out eight smaller paper hearts and write a different word from I Corinthians 13:4-7 on each of their small hearts.

4: Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;

5: it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

6: it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.

7: Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Then glue all the smaller hearts inside the larger hearts.  Tell them to print the names of their family members around the big hearts.

Tell them that this is a special valentine heart for your family.  Ask your parents to hang up the valentine as a reminder of how to share God's love with each other.

Grades 4-6 Love for Mom and Dad

What you need: stationery, envelopes and stamps

Tell your students that since one of God's commandments tells us to honor our parents, they're going to write letters to their parents to show them know how much we appreciate and respect them.  They should thank their parents for all the things they do and the many ways they love their children.  

After collecting the letters, send them to the parents so they arrive on Valentine's Day.