20 Exciting Valentine’s Day Minute to Win It Games For Laughter & Love
Get ready for hilarious party fun with our list of 20 Valentine’s Day Minute to Win It games!
These quick and easy Valentine minute-to-win-it games are perfect for:
- Family game nights
- School, home, or church parties
- Easy entertainment on cold winter days
Whether you’re hosting a family party or a festive get-together with friends, these simple games get everyone excited to celebrate love!
The best part? These easy Valentine-themed games require only a few supplies and don’t leave a big mess behind. Many games repeat the same items!
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See who can complete the exciting tasks in just a minute. Grab a timer and get playing!
Easy Valentine’s Day Minute To Win It Games
Pro Tip: If your family loves Minute to Win It games, set aside some of the commonly used materials and store them for easy reuse every time you play.
1. Heart Stack
What You Need: Conversation hearts (small candy hearts), plates
How to Play: Players have one minute to stack as many conversation hearts as they can into a single tower. Only the standing hearts at the end of the minute count. So if their tower falls, they have to try to rebuild quickly.
Make It harder – Heart Stack Attack: Players must stack the hearts into three separate towers of at least six hearts each within one minute.
2. Let’s Face It
What You Need: Conversation hearts (small candy hearts), plates
This is a hilarious game where each player places a conversation heart on their forehead. The objective is to move the heart to their mouth using only facial muscles. It’s a race against time and gravity!
3. Heart Drop
What You Need: Conversation hearts, plates, empty bowls or jars
How to Play: Players stand on a chair and drop conversation hearts into a jar or bowl on the floor. The person who successfully lands the most hearts in the jar within a minute wins.
To make it easier or harder: Modify the size of the bowl or jar depending on the age. For example, I gave my husband a tiny bowl to make it fair!
4. A Spoonful of Love Relay
What You Need: Conversation hearts, spoons, plates, bowls
How to Play: Putting a spoon in their mouth, players have one minute to…
- Place hearts on their spoon
- Walk to a designated spot and back
- Drop the hearts in a bowl
- Repeat 1-3
When the timer goes off, the player with the most hearts in their bowl wins.
5. Don’t Blow It
What You Need: Conversation hearts, straws, plates, bowls
How to Play: Players have one minute to transfer as many candy hearts from a table to a cup or bowl. The catch? They have to use the straw to move them.
Make it easier: If young kids find this hard, use a spoon or hands.
6. Cupid Shuffle
What You Need: Balloons and a basket
How to Play: Players cross the room with a balloon to get it into a basket, but they must keep it in the air by only using one hand. To make this harder, you can use two balloons.
7. Heart Hunt
What You Need: Cut-out paper hearts
How to Play: Have players leave the room while you hide the hearts. When they return, players must collect the hearts one at a time. The player who collects the most hearts in a minute wins.
Related: Fun Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt Cards
8. Heart Sorting
*Perfect for young kids!
What You Need: Conversation hearts, plates
How to Play: Players race to sort conversation hearts by color. The person with the most sorted hearts after one minute wins.
9. Valentine’s Day Charades
What You Need: Valentine’s Day Charades Game
How to Play: Each player has one minute to act out as many words or phrases as possible while the other players try to guess them. The player who gets the most correct guesses during their turn wins!
10. Candy Heart Chopsticks
What You Need: Conversation hearts, chopsticks, plates, bowls
How to Play: Players must use chopsticks to pick up conversation hearts and place them into a bowl. The player with the most hearts in their bowl after one minute wins.
Planning activities for a Valentine’s party? Try these Valentine’s Day trivia questions!
11. Love Outburst
What You Need: Valentine’s Day Outburst Game
How to Play: Each player has one minute to shout out as many correct answers as possible for their category in 60 seconds. The player who gets the most correct guesses during their turn wins!
12. Love Balloon Drop
What You Need: Balloons
How to Play: Blow up 3 balloons and draw a heart on each one. Then, players must keep all 3 balloons in the air for 1 minute. They can use any part of their body, but can’t hold the balloons at any time.
To make this easier: You can use fewer balloons.
13. Valentine’s Day 5 Second Game
What You Need: Valentine’s Day 5 Second Game – coming soon!
How to Play: Players compete to name as many items within a given category as possible in 60 seconds. Play in teams or partners and see who can name the most.
Also, play the similar 5-Second Rule Game!
14. Lollipop Lottery
What You Need: A container filled with lollipops (some marked on the stick with a red dot)
How to Play: Players take turns pulling lollipops out of the container for one minute. The goal is to pull as many “marked” lollipops as you can out. The player with the most at the end wins.
15. Candy Heart Hunt
What You Need: Conversation hearts, plates, whipped cream
How To Play: Each player receives a plate with 5-10 candy hearts buried in whipped cream. The goal is to dig out the hearts the fastest without using hands.
Ran out of candy hearts? You can use any small type of candy or dried fruit for this game!
16. Cupid’s Arrow
What You Need: Q-tips, Conversation hearts, bowls
Place a bowl at one end of a table. 2-3 feet behind it, place a masking tape line. Then, make sure each player has a bowl of q-tips next to them.
How to Play: Each player must stand behind the line and toss the q-tip (cupid’s arrow) to try to get as many as they can into the bowl.
To make this harder: You can add a straw – Players place the straw in their mouth, load it with a q-tip, and then blow the “arrow” out the end of the straw and aim for the bowl.
17. Love Balloon Pop
What You Need: Balloons with small slips of paper inside, some marked with a heart
How to Play: Players pop balloons by sitting on them or squeezing them to find the ones with a heart inside. The player who pops the most balloons with a heart in one minute wins.
18. Cupid’s Ring Toss
What You Need: Bottles of sparkling juice and heart-shaped rings (or pipe cleaners/glow sticks twisted into rings)
How to Play: Players try to toss the rings onto the necks of the bottles. The goal is to land as many as possible in one minute.
19. Love Connection
What You Need: Paper Hearts, scissors
First, cut the hearts in half to create 2-piece puzzles.
How to Play: Players try to match the hearts correctly in a minute. The player who matches the most wins.
To make it harder: Create puzzles that look similar and mix the pieces around well.
20. Valentine’s Day Exercise
*Great for getting the wiggles out!
What You Need: Nothing!
How To Play: See how many reps kids can do of each of these in a minute.
1. Cupid’s Arrow Jumps – Kids pretend to shoot arrows like Cupid while doing jumping jacks. Each time they jump, they can mime pulling back a bowstring and “shooting” an arrow.
2. Heart Hopscotch – Use heart-shaped cutouts as stepping stones to create a hopscotch path. Kids hop, skip, or jump from heart to heart, trying to avoid “falling off.”
3. Love Bug Crawls – Kids crawl like a bug on all fours while wearing heart stickers or cutouts on their backs. They race from one side of the room to the other.
4. Sweetheart Squats – Have kids squat while holding a heart-shaped object, like a paper heart or small pillow, in front of them. Add a challenge by having them “pass the heart” to a partner between squats.
5. Rose Relay Races – Players race to carry a fake flower (or other object) across the room and back, either in their hand, under their chin, or balanced on their head!
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