40 Valentine's Day Minute to Win It Games for Parties
Looking for Valentine’s Day Minute to Win It games that are easy to set up and guaranteed to get everyone laughing? These friendly, competitive games are hilarious 60-second challenges with a fun Valentine’s Day theme that keeps everyone moving, cheering, and racing the clock.
With 40 different games to play, these engaging Valentine's activities use simple items you probably already have at home—making them perfect for a stress-free and fun Valentine's Day Party.
These exciting Valentine’s Day games are perfect for class parties, Valentine’s Day parties, Galentine’s Day parties, office parties, tween and teen Valentine’s Day sleepovers, or family game nights at home.
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Minute to Win It Games for Valentine's Day
Get ready to have so much fun playing Valentine's Day Minute to Win It Games. These quick Valentines games are sure to be a hit and get everyone involved, playing, and having a blast!
Look through the 40 one-minute games and find the best one for your classroom party, office party, Valentine's Day party, Galentine's Day party, or fun family game night.
If you're looking for a fast-paced game that is sure to bring out some friendly competition, then these are the Valentine's Day games for you!
Quick Note – I use painter’s tape in many games as it doesn’t stick to floors, tables, or walls. Feel free to use any tape you want.
Make sure to visit these 60 Second Games too! Easy Minute to Win It Games for Kids, Minute to Win It Games for Teens & Tweens, Classroom Minute to Win It Games, and Winter Minute to Win It Games to get even more party game ideas.
1. Conversation Heart Stack
Supplies Needed - Conversation Hearts
How to Play - Give players each a pile of conversation candy hearts (8-10) and see who can stack the tallest tower of hearts without it falling before time is up.
2. Tower of Love Cup Stacking
Supplies Needed - 21 Red Solo cups for each player
How to Play - When the timer starts, players will race to stack all 21 cups into a pyramid without them falling, and then unstack the plastic cups before the minute is up.
3. Valentine’s Suck It Up
Supplies Needed - A large bag of Skittles or red & pink M&Ms, plus two paper plates and a straw per player
How to Play - Players will be given two plates, with one paper plate having 10 Skittles. The kids will need to use the straw to suck up the Skittles to the end of the straw and move it to the other plate, where they will drop it down.
The goal is to move all the pieces before the one-minute timer is up. The player who moves the most candies wins!
4. Hearts in the Trunk
Supplies Needed - Empty tissue boxes, Belt, 10 red or white ping pong balls, red wrapping paper
How to Play – This game is Junk in the Trunk Valentine's edition. The first thing to do is make your red box. I wrapped my tissue box in red wrapping paper to make it a Valentine's Day game.
To make your box, first wrap a Kleenex box in wrapping paper, making sure to leave the area where you pull Kleenex tissues out unwrapped and open.
Next, cut two slits on the opposite side of the box opening. Then have the belt go through the slits.
Lastly, add to the box 10 ping pong balls and place the box around a player’s waist with the belt.
Players then have 1 minute to shake out all their ping-pong balls. This is hilarious to watch!
5. Heart Pick Up
Supplies Needed - Conversation Hearts, Paper Plates, and Chopsticks
How to Play - Players will be given a plate with 10 candy hearts and will need to move them to a second plate using the chopsticks. The goal is to move all the candy hearts to the second plate before the time is up.
Tip: To make the game harder for older players, add more candy hearts.
6. Heart Relay Race
Supplies Needed - Paper towel rolls (To create a relay baton, you can wrap a paper towel roll with colored construction paper)
How to Play - Have players make teams of 2 and give each team a relay wand. Set a chair across the room from each team.
The first team member will run around the chair and back to their teammate, where they will pass the baton. The second team member will also run around the chair and back. The winning team is the first to have both teammates back to the start line.
7. Heart Pong
Supplies Needed - Ping Pong Balls and Red Solo Cups Or Paper Cups).
How to Play - Line up plastic cups on one side of a table like a pyramid. Give each player ping pong balls that they will try to bounce into a plastic cup. The player who bounces in the most ping pong balls wins.
8. Heart to Heart
Supplies Needed - Balloons
How to Play - Two teammates hold a balloon between their chests and try to walk across the room (or to the finish line) without dropping the balloon. The first team to get to the other side of the room wins.
9. Floating Hearts
Supplies Needed - Balloons
How to Play - This is a Keep It Up Balloon challenge. Players will be given 3 balloons and need to keep all three up in the air with a hand behind their back.
Tip: Make it easier for younger players by using fewer balloons or letting them use both hands.
10. Icy Heart Race
Supplies Needed - Styrofoam blocks (ice)
How to Play - Set up a start line, and across from it at the end of the room, place a chair that players will need to walk around.
Give each player a styrofoam block (ice block) to place between their knees. When you say go, players need to race with the ice heart block between their knees around the chair and back to the finish line. The first player back to the finish line without dropping the block wins.
Tip: Check the Dollar Store flower section for cheap white blocks
11. Heart Drop
Supplies Needed - Red Solo Cups, Ping Pong Balls, Painter's Tape
How to Play - Set up by taping 5 plastic cups to the edge of the table for each player. Have players stand at the other end of the table, across from their set of solo cups.
Each team can have two players working together or choose one individual to compete for each team.
Players or Team members are given 10 ping pong balls. If you can find red ping pong balls, great; otherwise, white ping pong balls are fine.
When the timers start, players have 1 minute to roll as many ping pong balls into the cups as they can.
If they drop balls on the ground and there is still time, they can pick up the balls and keep going.
The winner has the most ping pong balls in their cups after 60 seconds.
12. Cookie Face
Supplies Needed – Heart cookies or flat cookies
How to Play – Have the team member playing sit in a chair with their head facing up on the back of the chair. Then place a cookie on a player’s forehead in the center, but not touching their eyebrows.
When the timer starts, players try to get the cookie into their mouths by using their facial muscles.
13. Heart Transplant
Supplies Needed - Tweezers, bowls or paper plates, Valentine's M&Ms
How to Play - Give each player two bowls - one filled with M&Ms and one empty bowl.
Players have one minute to move as many hearts to the empty bowl as they can using only the tweezers. The winner is the one who moved the most candy hearts.
14. Broken Heart
Supplies Needed - Red and White Balloons
How to Play – In the middle of the room, place balloons that you have blown up.
When the timer starts, the player will race to the balloons and try to sit on or stomp the balloons to pop as many hearts as they can. The winner is the player who pops the most balloons.
15. Find the Hidden Heart
Supplies Needed - Small Heart (can be conversation heart candy), Red Solo Cups
How to Play - Place 20 solo cups on a table and a small heart under one cup. Players have 1 minute to try and find the heart.
Write down the time each player finds the heart, and the player with the quickest time wins.
16. Puzzled Heart
Supplies - Red and Pink Construction Paper.
How to Play - Create puzzles by cutting out hearts from construction paper and then cutting the hearts in half to create a puzzle.
In front of each player, mix up 6 puzzles. When the timer starts, players will race to put together their heart puzzle by matching up the pieces. The first to match all their puzzle pieces wins.
17. Balance Your Heart
Supplies Needed - Popsicle Sticks, Conversation Hearts
How to Play - Players place a popsicle stick in their mouth and use steady hands to balance as many conversation hearts as they can on the popsicle stick. The player with the most stacked up when the timer goes off wins.
18. Find Your Love Match
Supplies Needed - 10 matching Heart Stickers for a total of 20 stickers, Hershey's Kisses
How to Play - Start by placing heart stickers on the bottom of 20 Hershey Kisses. Make sure that each sticker has a match.
In the middle of a table, place 20 Hershey's Kisses with stickers and 20 without stickers.
Players will face off across from each other with kisses in between. When the timer starts, players have 60 seconds to find as many matching Hershey Kisses stickers as they can.
If they pick a kiss without stickers, they put it back in the middle. Only taking out the kisses with stickers and placing them on their side.
The winner is the player with the most Hershey's Kisses with matching stickers on them after the one-minute timer is up.
19. Toss a Heart
Supplies Needed - Conversation Hearts and Solo Cups
How to Play - Pair up with a partner. One partner holds an empty solo cup, and the other has a solo cup filled with conversation hearts (you can also use a ping pong ball).
The players stand across from each other. One will be holding out the empty solo cup, and the other tossing the conversation hearts into the cup. The team with the most hearts in their cup after one minute wins.
Tip: Make it easier or harder to play by adjusting how far apart the teammates stand.
20. Blow it Away
Supplies Needed - Red Pom Poms, Straws
How to Play - On the edge of a longer table, create a finish line with painter's tape. Two players stand on opposite sides of the table.
They have one minute to try and use the straw to blow the pom pom across the table and over the finish line. The first to do this wins.
21. Scoop Your Heart Up
Supplies Needed – Big Bag of Peppermint Candies, Large Bowls, and Plastic Spoons
How to Play – Players are given two bowls, one filled with peppermint candies and one empty bowl.
Players place their hands behind their backs and have 1 minute to try and use the spoon in their mouths to scoop the peppermint candies to drop into the empty bowl. The player with the most candies in the originally empty bowl at the end of the minute wins.
22. Mitten Flip
Supplies Needed: Red Solo Cups, Big Thick Mittens
How to Play: Set out a bunch of solo cups in front of each player and have them put on mittens.
They have 1 minute to try and flip as many red solo cups as they can over to stand up the opposite way. The player with the most cups flipped over when the timer goes off wins.
23. Capture the Cupid
Supplies Needed – Toilet Paper
How to Play – This is like the mummy wrap game with a Valentine's Day twist. Break up the group into teams of 3.
One player will be the cupid who gets wrapped up. The other two players have 1 minute to wrap the entire person with toilet paper to look like a captured cupid.
The first team to finish wrapping wins, or the team that has wrapped the most when the timer goes off, wins.
24. Put a Ring On It
Supplies Needed - 6 bottles, heart-shaped bracelets
How to Play - Space out 6 bottles in the shape of a pyramid. Players have 1 minute to try and get a bracelet over each bottle. The winner is the player who was able to get the most bracelets onto the bottles.
25. Bouncing Hearts
Supplies Needed - Egg Cartons, Ping-Pong Balls
How to Play - Across from each player on a table, set out an open egg carton. Players have 1 minute to try and bounce a ping pong ball into the egg carton.
The player with the most ping pong balls staying in the egg carton after 60 seconds wins.
26. Shovel Your Heart
Supplies Needed - Eye Mask, Conversation Hearts, Large Rubber Spoon, Basket or Large Bowl
How to Play: Players put a mask over their eyes and have 1 minute to use the spoon to shovel up as many conversation hearts as they can onto their spoon and drop them into their basket.
The player with the most conversation hearts in their basket after 60 seconds wins.
27. Blow A Kiss
Supplies Needed - 10 Solo Cups Per Player, Balloons
How to Play - Line up the 10 cups on the edge of a table. Players have 1 minute to blow up their balloon and use the air to blow the cups off the table one at a time.
The player who knocks off the most cups in 60 seconds wins.
28. Cupid's Catapult
Supplies Needed - Plastic Spoons, Candy Hearts
How to Play - Players will use the plastic spoon to catapult the candy hearts as far as they can. Players can keep flinging the hearts until the 60 seconds are up. They then mark where their furthest heart landed and see if anyone can beat them.
29. Sweet Stack
Supplies Needed – Bag of Peppermint Candies
How to Play – Each player is given a bunch of peppermint candies and has 60 seconds to try and stack as many as they can without the stack falling over. After the one-minute timer is up, the player with the highest stack wins.
30. Keep Your Heart Beating
Supplies Needed – Red Balloon, Fly Swatter
How to Play – Players place one hand behind their back and hold a fly swatter in the other hand. They then must keep a red balloon (heart) up in the air for 1 minute.
30. Valentine's Gift Push
Supplies Needed - Valentine's Day Gift Bags, Ping Pong Balls
How to Play - Create a start and finish line with painter’s tape on the floor. Make the lines 6 -12 ft. apart. I like to use painter’s tape so it won’t leave a mark on your floor.
Give each player a Valentine's Day gift bag or box and a ping pong ball.
When the timer starts, players use the box as a fan to roll the ping pong ball across the floor to the finish line.
Players can not touch the ping pong ball with the box. They can only use the wind to push it across the floor. The first player to cross the finish line in 1 minute wins.
31. Pick up Your Heart
Supplies Needed - Conversation Heart Candy, Plastic/Paper Bowls, and Plastic Spoons
How to Play - Each player is given a plastic spoon, 1 empty bowl, and 1 bowl filled with conversation hearts.
The player will put the spoon between their teeth and use it to try and scoop the heart candy out of one bowl and add it to the empty bowl. The player who moves the most conversation hearts in 60 seconds wins.
32. Heart on Your Sleeve
Supplies Needed - Conversation Hearts
How to Play - Players will roll up a sleeve and extend their arm. When the timer starts, they have 60 seconds to try and stack 5 candy hearts on their extended arm.
33. Sort Your Heart
Supplies Needed - Conversation Hearts, Solo Cups, or Bowl
How to Play - Fill one cup with conversation hearts for each player. Then give each player an empty cup for each color conversation heart. Players will have 60 seconds to try and sort the conversation hearts by color into the empty cups. You can also use bowls instead of cups.
34. Suck up the Hearts
Supplies Needed - Valentine's Day M&Ms, Turkey Baster, Bowls
How to Play - Players are given two bowls, one filled with M&M candies and the other empty. When the timer starts, use the turkey baster to suck up an M&M and move it to the empty bowl.
The player who moves the most M&Ms by the end of the time wins.
35. Cupid's Arrow
Supplies Needed - Cardboard Box, Ping Pong Balls
How to Play - Stand up a cardboard box and cut a big heart out of it. Then set it on one side of a table. Players have 60 seconds to toss or bounce as many ping pong balls as they can into the heart opening.
36. Valentine's Treat
Supplies Needed - Heart-Shaped Cookies, Frosting, Sprinkles
How to Play - Give each player 5 heart-shaped cookies, frosting, and sprinkles. The players race to be the first to decorate all five of their Valentine's Day cookies.
Tip - Let the players eat their heart cookies when they're done. This is what makes this Valentine's game a hit!
37. Valentine's Word Scramble
Supplies Needed - Free Printable Valentine's Word Scramble
How to Play - Players have 60 seconds to try and unscramble the Valentine's Day words.
38. Steal My Kisses
Supplies Needed - Chopsticks, Hershey's Kisses, Bowls
How to Play - Give players two bowls - one filled with Hershey's Kisses and an empty bowl, plus chopsticks. The object of the game is to move as many Hershey Kisses as they can using only chopsticks to move the Hershey's Kisses.
39. Heart Drop
Supplies Needed - Mason Jar or Water Bottle With a Wide Opening, Heart Candies, Chair
How to Play - Stand on a chair and place the mason jar in front of the chair. Players will try and drop the heart candies into the mason jar. This is a hilarious game to watch!
40. Heart Shake Down
Supplies Needed - Water bottles, Valentine's M&Ms, or other small candies
How to Play - Fill one water bottle with M&Ms, then tape that bottle to an empty water bottle. Players must shake the bottle to try and get all the M&M candies into the empty bottle before the timer is up.
I hope you found a few Valentine's Minute to Win It Games to play this holiday season.
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