Play a game of charades using candy conversation hearts as the messages.

1. Play a game of charades using candy
conversation hearts as the messages.
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Game Materials
Valentine’s Day candy
conversation hearts
(BE MINE, COOL KID, LOVER BOY,
KISS ME, MY GAL, etc.)

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Game Objective
Play a game of charades using
candy conversation hearts as the
messages.

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Game Preparation
1. For this game to be effective,
there must be quite a number of
different conversation hearts to
choose from.
2. Put all the candy in a bowl.

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Game Play
1. One person from a group picks out
one of the candies from the bowl
and, using the regular rules for
Charades, tries to pantomime the
message.

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2. The person who correctly guesses
the saying gets to eat that piece of
candy.
3. It’s fun to watch the participants
try to do phrases like LOVER BOY,
KISS ME, and all the other crazy
sayings found on the candy.

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Game Variation
Use Valentine Cards
instead of Valentine
candy.

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Game Variation
Use different emotions for the items to be
pantomimed. The person who guesses
the emotion gets a point. Emotions that
can be used are: anger, fear, happy,
nervous, bored, bitter, overwhelmed,
depressed, at peace, embarrassed, loved,
proud, detached, shocked, hate, and
finally, love

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Game Variation
• In larger groups you might
give each person one of the
above emotions.
• There should be at least two
people that have each
emotion.

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• The objective will be to display
the emotion until you find the
other members of your group.
• When you think you have your
partners/group have a seat

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• Continue until all groups are
seated.
• Then have each group strike a
pose of their emotion ending
finally with that of love.

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• What does love look like?
• What actions show love?
• How did you find your group?
• How do we find love?

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