Box of chocolates: $30. One dozen red roses: $60. Outrageous fun: It's free! Hey, lovebirds, check out these easy ideas for putting a little Cranium-inspired fun into your upcoming Valentine's Day.
Make a Valentine-mix CD of the cheesiest, most sentimental love songs you can think of. (The 80s were a great era for these.) Or, if cheese isn't your style, try a mix of just songs with the word "love" in the title.
Remember rifling through your box of store-bought valentines as a kid, searching for the perfect one to give to the impossibly cute red-headed girl or to the boy who had no idea how much you pined for him until your best friend told his best friend and then you couldn't even look at him for three weeks you were so embarrassed?
Well, there's no reason you can't recapture some of that magic! Get yourself a box of valentines (or two, or three!), address them all to your sweetheart, and hide them - in books, under pillows, in the pocket of a seldom-worn coat. Your honey will find a bunch on February 14th and will go on finding them for a long time after.
Choose a classic valentine word (love, heart, cupid, lace) and see if you can describe your valentine using only words that start with the letters in your valentine word. For instance, "CUPID" could become "Cute, Uxorious,* Playful, Impulsive, Dapper." If you want, see how many words you can come up with for each letter. Then use your words to create a special Valentine's Day keepsake.
*Fun word! It means to be excessively fond of one's wife.
This one will work with just two, or with a group of friends. Pass around of bowl of candy hearts. Each person takes one and has 10 seconds to come up with a Valentine's Day poem using "roses are red" as the first line and the candy heart phrase as the last line. For example, "Roses are red, and so is some wine, I picked out a heart, and it says 'be mine.'" If it rhymes, great! If it doesn't, hey, you only had 10 seconds.
If you're hosting a group of friends for Valentine's Day, give each guest a pen and a few strips of paper. Have each guest write down the titles of songs that have the word "love" in them. (Next, try the word "heart.") Put all of the song titles into a hat and divide the group into teams. Take turns giving one player 60 seconds to pull songs out of the hat and try to get their teammates to guess as many as possible by humming or whistling each song. We bet you 100 candy hearts you'll have a blast.
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