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Home » Holidays & Seasonal » Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt

Modified: Oct 22, 2024 · Published: Jan 29, 2014 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · 7 Comments

Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt: Fun, inexpensive family Valentine activity with frozen hearts hid outside in the snow.Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt: Fun, inexpensive family Valentine activity with frozen hearts hid outside in the snow.

Today our family did this amazing Valentine's Day scavenger hunt, and our kids LOVED it. We hid some frozen Valentines in the snow around our yard and our girls enjoyed hunting for them. It was great fun, and free, and I know your kids would love it too! 

Valentine's Day scavenger hunt

Materials:

  • heart shaped muffin or ice cube tray
  • red food colouring
  • water
  • buckets for collecting them in

How To Create a Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt for Frozen Hearts

We used my dollar store heart shaped muffin tin to make my ice cube valentines. I added a few drops of red food colouring to the water to make them red. You could also use a heart shaped ice cube tray.

This afternoon, we did the hunt in our backyard. My husband and I hid them while the girls played on the deck. The hearts looked so beautiful in the white snow, hidden all around the garden.

Valentine's Day scavenger hunt

A Valentine to the birds?

Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt
Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt
Valentine's Day Scavenger hunt
Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt

After we had them all hidden, the girls went searching, with a pail each for collecting.

Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt
Frozen Valentine Hunt

Where should we look next? How about the play structure?

family Valentine ideas

Tricky.

Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt

They found them all.

Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt

And then took turns hiding and finding all over, again and again. It was a lot of fun. Who knew a few ice cubes could turn be so much fun?  Happy Valentine's Day!

With a frozen Valentine's to find and play with, life really is a party!

You might also like our Valentine's Day Pizza Party here.

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Also check out our Valentine's Day At Home Spa here.

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You might also enjoy Valentine's Day Breakfast here.

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Comments

  1. ann P. says

    February 02, 2014 at 12:29 am

    AWESOME

  2. Emily {WhipperBerry} says

    February 14, 2011 at 1:56 am

    Such a cute idea!

  3. the cape on the corner says

    February 13, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    this is the cutest idea ever! i love it, and your girls look like they did too. how fun!

  4. dnr says

    February 13, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    Hi Susan,
    I'd love it if you'd share my idea on your blog.
    thanks so much,
    Dannyelle

  5. Susan @ Entertain Exchange says

    February 13, 2011 at 5:21 pm

    What a clever idea...and the hearts look so pretty tucked in among the winter landscape!

    I might have to share this on my blog tomorrow if that is ok?!

    Susan

  6. Anna @ Blissful Whimsy says

    February 13, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    Such a cute idea!

  7. Lowri McNabb says

    February 12, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    Came from WhipperBerry...
    I LOVE this idea - looks like you had heaps of fun too!
    Great idea

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