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Are you thinking of throwing a kids' party on St Valentine's Day? Then you would be wise to begin thinking of St Valentine's Day party games for kids too. Kids are more trouble when they are bored than whilst they are boisterous. Thinking up games is not much of a problem but there are normally two things to take into consideration: the age of the children and your budget.

The bouncy house always goes down well with children. You could hire a bouncy house for the day and hang hearts and flowers around the outside. Check on the Net first that the firm hiring out the bouncy house is a member of your country's governing body for bouncy house rental firms.

You could divide the children into teams and hold various races. One race could be the 'Race of Hearts', in which the kids have to run to the finishing line and back with a stuffed heart (or pillow) between their knees. It always causes lots of giggles.

Another race could be to 'Wrap Mummy' in which each team gets a few rolls of paper kitchen towel and they have to wrap up someone like a mummy as a gift. You could add bows and a name and address tag too.

The teams could play 'Mr and Mrs' in which the compare gives a famous name and the teams have to click a clicker, bang a gong or ring a bell if they know the answer. The compare may say: 'Samson' the reply is 'Delilah'; 'Hilary Clinton' - 'Bill Clinton'; 'Queen Elizabeth' - 'Prince Phillip'. You get the idea.

Split along gender lines, you could play the 'King and the Queen of Hearts'. Do you remember those round sweets with a heart on them and a romantic saying in the heart? Well, they do not cost a lot for a colossal bag of them. Give each child 50 or so and ask them to stack them one on top of the other.

Whoever builds the highest tower in a minute goes through to the next round. Two boys against each other and two girls until there is just one girl and one boy left. They can eat the sweets, of course.

You could put a target on the ground, say one of your heart-shaped cushions, give each child an uninflated sausage-shaped balloon and put his or her name on it. Then the children stand in a circle around the heart, say twelve feet away, inflate their balloon and let them fly (without a knot in). The first one to land on the heart denotes the winner. Or the nearest to it. You could have one go each per round or they could fire at will until someone wins.

You could play Valentine's Day bingo. This can get as elaborate as you have time for. You could make your own cards with hearts etc on them; if the children are young, you could call out pictures instead of numbers, but the funniest of all is if the caller makes up some Valentine's Day slang to go with every number.

For instance, when calling bingo numbers in Britain, it is common to say: 'Legs 11' and a great deal of people will whistle; 'two little ducks, 22' and somebody always says 'quack, quack'. Each number has its own saying and they are used with minor variations everywhere. You could make up your own like: 'two hairy legs, number 11' or 'two pretty legs, number 11'.

If you cannot think of something suitable for each number, just do as many as you can - they always get a laugh and that is what it is all about when you are organizing a St Valentine's Day party for kids.

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