February is a great month. Valentine’s Day provides an added incentive to show love to others, and in our family we make that our focus for the whole month. Here are the ways that we plan to show love this month.
Make valentines for classmates: we prefer simple and handmade (usually involving a printable found on Pinterest) and of the non-food variety. You can check out last years version here.
Simple decorations for our house, involving handmade hearts from the kids and love-themed printable found online.
Give the Family Heart Attack. “I love_________because__________”
Make and decorate sugar cookies (favorite recipe).
Leave love notes for each other, using our red mailbox.
Hearts on the Wall-read about our new tradition of dinner time scriptures and conversation starters here.
Family Home Evening lessons: This year we will focus on loving others, loving God (and how he loves us), loving ourselves, and loving our ancestors.
Play the Heart Healthy game.
Personal Study: Review this wonderful talk by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, “How Do I Love Thee?”
Plan a heart menu for February 14th. Perhaps use heart cookie cutters for pancakes, cheese slices, brownies?? Heart shaped pizza??
Gift giving: I like to give my children a little gift to open on Valentine’s Day. Usually it is a book. Last year I found some heart nightgowns on clearance that were perfect for the girls.
Reading books: You can find our Love booklist here.
Favorite Scriptures about LOVE and HEART (how many can we memorize this month??)
John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you”
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Matthew 22:37 “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind”.
2 Nephi 4:15 “For my soul delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth them”
Alma 45:7 “Yea, I will keep thy commandments with all my heart”.