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Unique
Ideas to Celebrate
Valentines Day This Year
Want to celebrate
Valentine's Day in a different way? We've collected a bunch of
unique ideas - special ways to show how much you care about your
spouse, family members and friends you cherish.
- Heart-Felt
Valentine's Meal
Make up a batch of heart-shaped pancakes for a yummy Valentine's
breakfast or brunch.
Just pour the batter in the frying pan in a free-form heart
shape and serve with strawberries and whipped cream.
- Balloon
Goodies
Insert candy surprises into balloons before inflating them -
add a folded-up Valentine's message then inflate each balloon.
Tie with a red ribbon and attach to your loved one's chair for
them to find Valentine's morning.
- Family
Affair
Have the children help you prepare red Jello with cinnamon hearts
mixed in, mashed potatoes colored with pink food coloring, heart-
shaped cookies and any other creative recipes
to present for your Valentine's Day meal.
- The
Gift of Time
Give a hand-made coupon for some work you can do to free-up
some time for your spouse or parent. For example, a coupon good
for cleaning Dad's garage or for a full-house vacuuming for
your wife. How about a coupon for your best friend - you can
walk her dog or baby sit one evening.
- Coupon
Day
Each of you can create individual notes, say 4 or 6 each, to
describe a special surprise - a back rub, a bubble bath, kisses
from head to toe, a special meal - fold up the notes and toss
them into a jar. You can take turns having fun plucking a gift
coupon from the jar and doing what it says.
- Scavenger
Hunts
You can prepare this one for your spouse or for your children
to enjoy. Write up little notes about how you feel and what
they mean to you and place them around the house along with
a candy heart or other treat. Add a riddle at the end of each
note about where to find the next note. At the last note, have
something special waiting there. For example, you can be waiting
for your hubby in a candle-lit bubble bath with two glasses
of wine. Your children can find a teddy bear or other toy or
treat.
- Less
Fortunate
Visit a hospital or chronic care home to pass out small Valentine
surprises and gifts to the residents. They will enjoy the care
and attention from something so unexpected.
- Alone?
No one special to share Valentine's Day with? Sure you have!
You! Why not pamper yourself with a candlelit bubble bath, then
prepare your favorite gourmet meal and rent the latest comedy
video. Or treat yourself to a day at the spa, or a day at the
gym with a step or aerobics class. Plan for Valentine's Day
at least a week in advance - you'll find yourself looking forward
to your special treats and your quality time with yourself,
by choice.
- Picnic
Fun
Place a blanket on the floor near the lit fireplace with candles
on the mantle and have your Valentine's meal as a candle-lit
picnic
with a bottle of your favorite bubbly.
- Italian
Romance
Some soft Italian love songs on the CD player, a luscious Fettucini
Alfredo with a bottle of your favorite Italian
vino, then some fresh canoli from the pastry shop and cups
of amaretto flavored coffee for a taste sensation - top it off
with a sensuous scented bubble bath for two.
- A Cereal
Gift Surprise
Sneak in love notes and chocolate kisses in your sweetheart's
or children's cereal.
- Notables
Little notes in their lunch boxes, on the bathroom mirror, in
his briefcase, stuck on the car windshields, in his underwear
drawer...
- I'm
fortunate to have you!
Mix up a batch of fortune cookies (see http://www.whimsies-online.com/valentine.htm
for recipe!) and add your own little words of love.
- Messy
but Marvelous
Make sure you wear old clothes for this one and plan this escapade
where cleanup will be easy (no carpets, please!) Make up a batch
of chocolate pudding. Feed each other and wind up having a food
fight! Ideally, this is more fun in your birthday suits, then
the pudding won't go to waste where it lands!
Guaranteed for loads of giggles between the two of you
- take a shower-for-two after this one and wash each other's
chocolate-flavored hair!
- Take
a Letter
Take turns writing a love letter or love poem to each other.
Read them out loud...
- Valentine
Sharing
Plan some community work - help out at the local shelter, volunteer
at your local church, work with other volunteers to spread some
caring amongst your community.
- All
in the Family
Spend some quality fun time with your niece or nephew or other
child in your family.
- Long-Distance
Caring
Call your favorite aunt whom you haven't seen since she moved
far away, or your best friend who transferred to another country
- let them know you're thinking of them this Valentine's Day.
- Just
For You
Have you wanted that delicate pair of earrings for awhile but
kept putting off the purchase? Give yourself a special Valentine's
Day gift
.
- Poetry
In Motion
Write him or her a poem - can't write? Try out the poem generator
on http://www.whimsies-online.com/valentine.htm
for fun! Print out your creation and place it on your loved-one's
night table for when they awake!
About the
Author...
Heather Diodati, is the owner of DDesign,
an on-line shop for one-of-a-kind personalized gifts for all occasions.
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[Ed note:
the http://www.whimsies-online.com/valentine.htm
page has a list of truly awful Valentines Day jokes that you'll
enjoy and a very strange poetry generator to express your feelings
in a very different way - lots of fun!]
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