Heart Shaped Cupcakes
Ingredients:
1 Regular Cake Mix or Your Own Recipe

Directions:
1. Mix up  your regular cupcake recipe.
2. Put the paper  liners in your cupcake pans.
3. Then either put a child’s washed playing  marble or a wadded circle of tin foil between each of the cupcake liners and the
cupcake pan.
4. Bake as usual.
5. When the cupcakes come out they are heart shaped.
6. Frost them and decorate.

Red Jello Hearts
Ingredients:
1 Package of  red jello can be raspberry or Strawberry flavor

Directions:
1. Prepare the jello according to the Jello Jigglers recipe on the box.
3. Pour into shallow pans. Use a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out the hearts when the jello is set.
4. Serve with ice cream.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
 1 3/4 cups flour
 1/2 tsp salt
 3/4 tsp baking soda
 3/4 cups unsalted butter or margarine (at room
temperature)
 1/2 cup brown sugar
 1/2 cup granulated sugar
 1 egg
 1 tsp vanilla
 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

Directions:
Put butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar in a bowl. Beat with an electric mixer at medium speed until combined.

Add the egg and vanilla to the butter mixture and beat.
 In a smaller bowl, combine flour, salt and baking soda.
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture about 1/4 cup at a time.

Use a spoon to stir in the chocolate chips.
 Drop by heaping tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 10 minutes in a 350 degree oven.

Merinque Cookies Filled With Chocolate Kisses

INGREDIENTS:

3 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
dash salt
1 cup white sugar
44 chocolate candy kisses

PREPARATION:

In small bowl, beat egg whites, vanilla, cream of tartar, peppermint extract and salt till soft peaks form.

Gradually add sugar; beat until very stiff peaks form. Drop by tablespoon 1 1/2 inches apart on lightly greased cookie sheet.

Press a chocolate kiss into each cookie; with a knife, bring meringue up over candy.

Bake in 275 F oven for 30 minutes.

Immediately move to rack to cool.

Black Forest Trifle

1 Package brownie mix

2 Packages chocolate mousse mix

1 Can cherry pie pilling

1 Carton frozen whipped topping thawed

4 Skor candy bars crushed

Prepare and bake brownies according to package directions; cool completely on a wire rack.

Prepare mousse according to package directions.

Crumble brownies; sprinkle half into a 4 quart trifle dish or glass bowl. Top with half the

pie filling, mousse, whipped topping and candy bars. Repeat layers. Cover and refridgeratge

overnight.

Yields: 16 servings.

Sweetheart Fudge

1 1/2 teaspoons plus 1/4 cup butter

3 cups of butter

2/3 cup baking cocoa

1/8 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Line an 8 inch square pan with foil and grease the foil with 1 1/2 teaspoons butter; set aside.

In a heavy saucepan, combine sugar, cocoa, salt. Stir in the milk until smooth; bring to a rapid

boil over medium heat, stirring constantly.

Cook without stirring until a candy thermometer reads 234 degrees. Remove from the heat; add vanilla and

remaining butter (do not stir).

Cool about 5 minutes. Beat with a spoon until fudge thickens and just begins to lose its gloss. Immediatly

spread into prepared pan. Cool. Using foil, lift fudge out of pan. Discard foil; cut fudge into 1 in squares.

Free 5 X 7 Printable Card, just download file and print on your inkjet.

Love Poems

A collection of short poems about love in honor Valentine's Day.

I'd like to run away
From you,
But if you didn't come
And find me ...
I would die.
~ by Shirley Bassey

I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars grow old.
~ by Willam Shakespeare

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep;
The more I give to thee
The more I have,
For both are infinite.
~ by William Shakespeare

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
Together forever and never apart,
Maybe in distance, but never in heart.
~ by Anonymous

Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it .. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
~ by The Holy Bible, New International Version Ephesians 5:25-33

Love me without fear
Trust me without questioning
Need me without demanding
Want me without restrictions
Accept me without change
Desire me without inhibitions
For a love so free....
Will never fly away.
~ by Dick Sutphen

My love, you know you are my best friend.
You know that I'd do anything for you
And my love, let nothing come between us.
My love for you is strong and true.
~ by Sarah McLachlan

I sought for Love
But Love ran away from me.
I sought my Soul
But my Soul I couldn't see.
Then I sought You,
And I found all three.
~ by Unknown Author

Let the world stop turning,
Let the sun stop burning,
Let them tell me love's not worth going through.
If it all falls apart,
I will know deep in my heart,
The only dream that mattered had come true
...In this life I was loved by you.
~ by Bette Midler

Sometimes we let affection,
go unspoken,
Sometimes we let our love
go unexpressed,
Sometimes we can't find words to tell
our feelings,
Especially towards those
we love the best.
~ by Author unknown

My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~ by Frederick Saunders

Love Quotes

A collection of quotations about love in honor Valentine's Day.

Other men said they have seen angels,
But I have seen thee
And thou art enough.
~ by G. Moore

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
~ by Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
~ by Plato

Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
~ by Percy Bysshe Shelly

No man is truly married
until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
~ by Unknown

Love is a friendship set to music.
~ by E. Joseph Cossman

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
~ by Voltaire

Real love stories never have endings.
~ by Richard Bach

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
~ by Mother Teresa

We are each of angels with only one wing. ANd we can only fly embracing each other."
~ by Luciano De Cresccenzo

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same."
~ by Unknown

True Love is when you're still dancing, long after the music has stopped.
~ by Unknown

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
~ by Unknown

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or touched.  They must be felt with the heart."
~ by Helen Keller

True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist,
Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
~ by Anonymous

Life without love is like a tree
Without blossom and fruit.
~ by Khalil Gibran

Love is like war,
Easy to begin but hard to end.
~ by Anonymous

Your voice makes me tremble inside
And your smile is an invitation
For my imagination to go wild.
~ by Anonymous

Once in awhile,
Right in the middle of an ordinary life,
Love gives us a fairy tale.
~ by Anonymous

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
~ by Hubert Humprey

Hearts are not to be had as a gift,
hearts are to be earned...
~ by William Butler Yeats

True love doesn't have a happy ending:
True love doesn't have an ending.
~ by Anonymous

To get the full value of joy
You must have someone to divide it with.
~ by Mark Twain

I only wish to be the fountain of love
From which you drink,
Every drop promising eternal passion.
~ by Unknown Author

Love doesn't make the world go round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ by Elizabeth Browning

The best feelings are those that
Have no words to describe them....
~ by Michelle Hammersley

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
~ by Josiah G. Holland

"I love You" in 100 Languages

Valentines Day Guessing Game

Take a bunch of jars and fill them with assorted Valentine's Day candies (one kind of candy per jar). Be sure to count the number of candies as you put them in the jars. Leave a piece of paper and a pencil next to the jar and have the kids guess how many candies are in the jar. Be sure they write their name on the paper beside their guess. The one who's closest to the correct number wins the jar of candy. You could also have it where the one that guesses the correct number wins a prize instead of the jar of candies.

 

 Valentines Day Candy Toss

Take a piece of red construction paper and draw 3 circles in the middle of the paper. Make the circles three different sizes so the finished product resembles a bull's eye (the size of the circles will depend on the age of the children, the older the kids the smaller the circle). Color each circle a different color and write in different point values for each circle. Have the kids each throw a different type candy (e.g., one child would only have cinnamon red hots to throw, another would have one color of jelly bean, another child another color, etc.  Prizes are awarded depending on which circle the child's candy lands on. The child who lands on the bull's eye in the middle gets the big prize The prizes can be stuff like: chocolates, candies, audio tapes of kids music, videos that kids would like, little stuffed animals, whatever you'd like).

 

Valentine's Day Heart Relay Race

Cut out a bunch of different-colored hearts and write different actions on them (e.g., hop, clap, crawl, skip, etc.) and place the hearts in a decorated box. Divide the kids into 2 teams and designate who goes first. The leader of each team would run up to a box and pull out a heart. Each child must do that particular action back to their team. The next child in the line is given the heart and they also must do that action back to the heart box. The games continues until every child has a turn.  The first team to finish wins a prize of your choosing. Note: for older kids why not make the game a little more difficult. Maybe have them pick the hearts out of the box, one at a time, using chopsticks. You can also make the actions the kids have to perform a little more difficult.

 
Postman

Everyone gets to participate in this game involving a hidden valentine. Choose one child to be postman and give him or her the postman's hat. (Red strip of paper with pink heart that says Postman.) The postman must hide his eyes while you give another child a valentine to hide behind their back. Then the postman uncovers his eyes and faces his classmates who say, "Postman, postman, where's the mail?" The postman gets three guesses to find out who is hiding the mail. If he guesses correctly, he continues as postman. If he guesses incorrectly, the person with the mail becomes the postman.

Print a Card on Your Inkjet Printer

Download this free 5 X 7 card kit to print on standard letterhead size card stock. - includes .pdf templates for printing card and envelope, MS Word .doc file to customize inside message. Available at Do-It-101.com

Valentine's Day Card and Envelope

A simple Valentine's Day card is easily made on your computer from a standard sized sheet of 8 1/2 X 11 paper, use photo matte paper if you want to have a nice bright photo on it.

You will need a computer and color printer, if you have a drawing or graphics program that is a help but not necessary. A digital copy of any photos you require should be on your computer, you can use your own or download an image from free clip art sources on the web.

Begin by folding a sheet of 8 1/2 X 11 paper, use any scrap paper for this, it is only a guide to help you position your images. Fold the sheet in half and then in half again as shown below.

Hold the folded card in front of you with one folded edge up and the other folded edge on the left, set the paper down and mark a 1 and an arrow pointing up on the face of the card.

Open the card and mark a 2 and an arrow pointing up on the right hand panel. Unfold the second fold and position it in front of you with the 1 in the lower right corner.

This will show you where to position the copy for the face of the card, open a program on your computer and insert the copy for the face of the card. You can do this by copying and pasting a photo image, typing a message or a combination of both. When you are satisfied with the layout print the image on your good paper.

By flipping your pattern end for end you will see that the copy for the inside is now in the same position as the copy for the front was. Add your copy to this area, There are links to quotes and short poems at the bottom of the page that you may like to use. Place the paper in your printer with the first image at the top of the page and print the inside copy, fold the sheet in the same manner as the guide you made.

You may use the card as it is at this point or you may further enhance it by adding embellishments such as ribbon, eyelets, or punched out shapes.

Love quotes to use.
Love poems to use.

To make an envelope for the card begin with a sheet of paper 8 1/2" square, mark the center of the sheet with a small dot, locate this point by laying a ruler diagonally across the sheet to each of the opposite corners.

Fold the two side corners into the center so the point of the corner meets the dot in the center of the sheet. Fold the bottom corner up about 1/2" above where the side folds start. Fasten the bottom flap to the side flaps with glue, fold the top flap down in the same manner. The top flap may be sealed with a spot of glue under the point of the flap or with a sticker.

POTPOURRI HEART

Place this sweet-smelling heart in a drawer to scent scarves or lingerie, add a loop of narrow red ribbon and hang it in a closet to fragrance clothes.

Tools and Materials

pencil
heart shape template (scrapbooking templates)
scissors
fabric large enough to cut 2 hearts the size you desire
sewing thread
potpourri
lace enough to go around the heart

Instructions

1. Using a pencil trace around the heart template in the size you desire. Cut it out.
2. Fold the fabric in half, right sides together . Pin the pattern on top. Cut out two hearts at
the same time.
3.Cut a piece of lace long enough to go around the heart with a little overlap . Pin on one
heart with the fancy lace edge pointing into the inside of the heart.
4.Place the other heart on top of the first heart and lace, right sides together. Sew around
the heart making sure to sew all three layers. Leave a small opening . Turn right side out.
5.Fill the heart with potpourri.
6.Slip stitch the opening closed.