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

1. Youth Ministry Ideas -
Valentine’s Day Candy Charades
Play a game of charades using candy
conversation hearts as the messages.
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2. Game Materials
Valentine’s Day candy conversation hearts
(BE MINE, COOL KID, LOVER BOY, KISS ME,
MY GAL, etc.)
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3. Game Objective
Play a game of charades using candy
conversation hearts as the messages.
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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. Game Variation
Use Valentine Cards
instead of Valentine candy.
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8. 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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9. 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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10. • 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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11. • 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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12. • What does love look like?
• What actions show love?
• How did you find your group?
• How do we find love?
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