Valentine's Day is customarily a day of love spent with your significant other, complete with a nice fancy meal, some sweets, and sometimes even champagne. This may have been the case before you and your partner started having children, but all parents are aware that once your little bundles of joy enter your life, romantic outings like Valentine's Day become a little harder to do if not increasingly rare.
However, being a parent doesn’t mean you have to let go of this day of love completely. It may be a little bit more tiring or harder to organize than before, but it isn’t impossible to do. You and your partner deserve to celebrate the day of love, and this time around you can do it with your little ones!
Even though it seems easier to ask a “yaya” (nanny) or a babysitter to look after the kids, you can still have a memorable day with your partner and your little bundles of joy! So, if you’re looking for ways to spend this day of hearts with your sweetie and your lovely little ones, then check out these 10 fantastic suggestions for how to celebrate Valentine's Day with your kids!
Home Cinema
You don’t have to go to the cinema in order to enjoy a movie with your family. Instead, you can opt for having a movie day with them at home! You can do this by building a blanket fort and projecting movies onto some sheets, or you can get your living room areas ready with some nice snacks, a good movie, and a comfy viewing setting that you can all enjoy and have fun in!
Prepare A Fancy Dinner
This date option is perfect for families who love to cook or enjoy spending time in the kitchen. You don’t have to be an iron chef to have fun with this date idea, but you can certainly have tons of fun pretending to be one for the day!
After you all prepare your meal, you can set up your areas in whatever creative or fancy manner you wish so you and your kids can have an extra special meal together. So, whether you choose to have a fancy picnic in the garden or you decide to bring out the nice silverware and set up the table in a dressy manner, you and your family are bound to have fun doing this on Valentine's Day.
Have A Family Date
Family dates can happen on any other day as well, but you can always spruce things up on Valentine's Day. You can do anything and everything from having a day out in the mall together, going to an adventure park or theme park, the zoo, or even trying new classes (like painting or pottery) together. These family dates can be as simple or as adventurous as you want! It all depends on what you, your partner, and your kids want and can do. With this kind of idea, the sky is the limit, mamas!
Head to the Great Outdoors
If you and your family are those that like to explore nature or appreciate activities done outdoors, then you might want to head out and try something new together like hiking a new trail, exploring paths leading up to waterfalls or rivers, going on ATV rides or riding horses, heading to the beach for the day, or even trying your hands at camping (or “glamping”). As these activities may be a little difficult with little ones in tow, you can always choose to adjust the difficulty and length of the activities so you can all enjoy a more worry-free or fuss-free activity together.
Staycation
Staycations are the go-to activity for most families on any given day, especially because it allows everyone to relax and just have fun. After all, it’s pretty hassle-free when you can just check in at a hotel and let yourself (and your family members) get pampered for the day. Having a staycation with your partner and your children is also a great option for Valentine’s Day since hotels usually have a ton of fun and creative activities that anyone, no matter their age, can enjoy.
So, while you and your partner have a massage at the spa or have some alone time at the pool, the kids can enjoy some time in the arcade, kiddy rooms, or in whatever kid-friendly activities the hotel may have!
Family Photoshoot
Photoshoots definitely sound fancy, but rest assured it can be as laid back or over the top as you wish! It really depends on you and the photographers you find. If you’ve never had a photoshoot before, you can choose to do this activity at home, at a certain destination you choose, or at the photographer’s studio if they have one.
Photos are a great way to remember memories and events by and it’s certainly a fun new experience for you and the family to try out. You can even have a special theme for the shoot, such as a Valentine's one for Valentine’s Day.
Make Gifts For Each Other
It doesn’t have to be Christmas or anyone’s birthday for you to give gifts to each other. The beauty of this Valentine’s idea is that you have the option of creating the gifts together or making them yourself and just surprising each other with these fun gifts.
What’s great is that you don’t even have to be artistic or have a knack for making DIY things! You can make friendship bracelets, ornaments you can hang up on Christmas, macaroni jewelry, or even cook each other treats.
Explore Old Haunts
If you and your spouse are the sentimental types, then bringing your kids to your old date spots or areas you and your partner used to go to might be a fun idea you may want to try out. So, if you met each other in college and had a particular cafe, restaurant, park, or store you used to hang out in or spend time in together, then it could be a fun day with the kids when you show them where you two met, spent time together, and all the areas that hold important memories for you both.
Get Active
Depending on how old your kids are, you can opt to try out a fun escape room, have a quick family workout, or try a new sport together! You can do a beginner’s boxing class, try your hand at Zumba or salsa, or just go for a run together. This is a great way to try new things together but also a good way to let your kids release their energy.
You can head to places like Dreamplay if you and your family want to have some fun times with some loveable Dreamworks characters, try an escape room in Mystery Manila, or head to a boxing gym and sign up for a class together. The possibilities are endless!
Let Them Decide the Schedule
Valentine’s Day can be quite tiring to plan out, especially if you have kids running around, taking up your time and energy, and basically dictating your schedule for you. However, on Valentine’s Day, it might be a great option to let your little ones take the reigns for the day by letting them decide what to do, where to go, and what to eat.
If you’re on a budget, you can still have fun with this option! You can give your kids some options that you would like to do or that you can do at that moment that you know they would enjoy too. This option is a little more flexible too since you can adjust the parameters and rules according to your time, preferences, and limits.
Valentine's Day is a fun and special day that anyone and everyone can enjoy, and it’s not just for romantic love. It’s also a great day that presents a wonderful opportunity for those with children to express your love to them in a particularly special way. And what’s great is that you don’t need extravagant presents or elaborate meals to enjoy. So, we’ve put together these top 10 suggestions for a Valentine's Day date with kids in case you needed a little inspiration and we hope it helps! Let us know how it goes or if you have any other date ideas we should know about!
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