Looking for a Valentine’s Day Game to play with your family and friends? Also a fun game for a Valentines Day Party or Classroom Party. Our Valentines Yahtzee is fun for all!
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching…can you believe it? It just seems like the days are flying by…yet crawling at the same time! Anyways, we like to celebrate the actual day of Valentine’s together as a family. My husband and I will then celebrate our Valentines Day date on a separate day.
VALENTINES DAY PARTY GAMES
A few weeks ago, I shared our Valentine’s Day Bingo Cards. We have used them several times and I have taken them to some Classroom Valentines Day Parties where they are always a hit!
We always make Sugar Cookies or these Sugar Cookie Bars and decorate them as a fun activity always within a few days of the holiday. Then we always celebrate the day by enjoying a nice candlelight dinner for SEVEN! LOL! It’s a fun way to spend the day together as a family. You can check out our Valentines Day Table Decorations here.
VALENTINES YAHTZEE GAME
The kids love to play games together too. So one of the games we play is this Hearts Yahtzee game, which is just like classic game of yahtzee. I just jazzed it up a little bit for a fun Valentines Yahtzee Game.
HOW TO MAKE VALENTINES GAME DICE
Materials needed:
Directions:
- You will need 5 or 6 square wood blocks that measure 1 x 1 inch. (I made 6 game dice instead of the usual 5 dice. It is easier for the little kids to get the needed numbers to do well at this game. So you can either make 5 or 6 dice and play either “heart” or “hearts” yahtzee).
- Paint your dice white (or preferred color) and let dry.
- Print out the dice download which can be found by clicking on the button below. Make sure you print it out the original size or it won’t be the right size for your dice.
- Cut out each individual square.
- Glue them with mod podge onto each dice. Each dice should get a letter and the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. You can look at a regular dice to see what goes where.
- Mod Podge the fronts and backs of the squares to firmly attach them to the dice. I gave each dice an additional layer of Mod Podge after the first layer dried.
*Be sure to print these out with a laser printer so that the ink will not run.
That’s it! Pretty easy huh? I have used this Valentines day game at my kids Valentines Classroom parties and the kids loved it!
VALENTINE’S DAY PRINTABLES
Have you seen the full set of Valentine’s Day Table and Party Decorations that I am offering in an awesome bundled set?
CHECK OUT OUR OTHER VALENTINE DAY IDEAS
- Bingo Cards
- Valentines Day Table Decorations
- Handprint Activity for Kids
- Valentines Day Heart Wreath
- Valentines Day Sugar Cookie Bars
- Heart Hand Warmers
- Classroom Parties
- Valentines Day Classroom Boxes
- Valentines Day Crafts
- Paper Heart Garland
- Valentines Day Sign
HOW TO PLAY VALENTINES YAHTZEE GAME
Object of the game:
The object of Yahtzee is to obtain the highest score from throwing 5 dice.
The game consists of 13 rounds. In each round, you roll the dice and then score the roll in one of 13 categories. You must score once in each category. The score is determined by a different rule for each category. The game ends once all 13 categories have been scored.
Game Start:
To start with, roll all the dice. After rolling you can either score the current roll (see below), or re-roll any or all of the dice.
You may only roll the dice a total of 3 times. After rolling 3 times you must choose a category to score.
You may score the dice at any point in the round, i.e. it doesn’t have to be after the 3rd roll.
Scoring:
To score your combination of 5 dice, you click one of the 13 boxes, or write it on the scorecard (scoresheet). There are two sections to the score table – the Upper Section and the Lower Section.
Once a box has been scored, it cannot be scored again for the rest of the game (except the Yahtzee category), so choose wisely.
Upper Section Scoring:
If you score in the upper section of the table, your score is the total of the specified die face.
The One, Three or Four Categories were selected for scoring with this roll, you would score a zero.
If placed in the Two or Six category, you would score 2 and 6 respectively.
Bonus:
If the total of Upper scores is 63 or more, add a bonus of 35. Note that 63 is the total of three each of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 6s.
Lower Section Scoring:
In the lower scores, you score either a set amount, or zero if you don’t satisfy the category requirements.
3 and 4 of a kind:
For 3 of a kind you must have at least 3 of the same die faces. You score the total of all the dice. For 4 of a kind you would need 4 die faces the same.
Small and Large Straight:
A Straight is a sequence of consecutive die faces, where a small straight is 4 consecutive faces, and a large straight 5 consecutive faces.
Full House:
A Full House is where you have 3 of a kind and 2 of a kind. Full houses score 25 points.
First Yahtzee:
A Yahtzee is 5 of a kind and scores 50 points, although you may elect NOT to score it as a Yahtzee, instead choosing to take it as a top row score and safe guard you bonus.
Additional Yahtzees:
If you roll a second Yahtzee in a game, and you scored your first yahtzee in the Yahtzee box, you would score a further bonus 100 points in the yahtzee box.
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Wow! Great idea! Not sure how I stumbled across your blog, but thanks so much for the idea (and file!). I'm planning on using it in my second grade classroom!!
Oh I love this! And I love that ypu celebrate with your whole family. So cute.
Thank you so much for this awesome idea! My husband LOVES games (me not so much) and we're doing a thrifty Valentines this year. This Yahtzee game fits the bill perfectly! Can you find those 1×1 blocks at most craft stores?
gosh you are creative! That is so cute!
Thanks for including the downloads! As a teacher, I will be making this and also telling other teacher friends about it. What a great version of the game :)
Cub scouts, today….check!
Thanks Amy! I owe you one! I'm gonna get my butt off the couch and go and get this done for den meting.
Do you need me to do an Easter game so that we're even? I'll start thinking! :)
We do all the same things..from the sugar cookies to the candlelight dinner for all. Love this game idea. Thanks for sharing all that you do!
Absolutely adorable! Love that this promotes good family time on Valentine's Day.
How cute is this game!! Love that you have a candlelit dinner with the whole fam!!
Oh wow! These are unbelievably fun and cute. Thank you so much for sharing. We will be using these for our party Monday!! THANK YOU!!!
This is SO cute Amy! You rock.
OMGosh, that is sooo awesome!! I "HEART" dice games. You just made my favorite one amazing. Too bad I'm outnumbered by boys in this house ;)
What a fun game! My Dad always used to give me and my sisters a Valentine's gift too! It made us feel so special!
Love this blog! I am officially a new follower :)
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This is Great Fun! Thank you for sharing.
FYI, the scorecard needs to be corrected. HEARTS (i.e., formerly known as Yahtzee) and Chance are reversed.
FYI, HEARTS (formerly called Yahtzee) and Chance need to be reversed on the score card.
Loved the game – however Google says an error occured and not able to download. Would you be willing to send to e-mail address? Thank you
Your website is super cool and helpful for the people who are intrested in crafts and stuffs .Keep going!
Avani- Thank you so much!
Thank you this is such a cute idea! I was able to down load the game cards for the Heart Yahtzee but the link to grab the Yahtzee Heart Game Dice printables isn’t working for me. I’ve tried with two different browsers. Please help.
I got it fixed! Thanks! Hope you enjoy it!
Our family celebrates Valentine’s Day the same way!
I love this idea! We recently taught the kids how to play GREEDY and they ask to play dice every night.
Is there a new link for the dice printable per chance? All I get is the button.png for it.
Can’t wait to put it together!!!
Got it fixed! Thanks for letting me know! So fun! I love playing games as a family!
Thank you! Worked great…I’m excited to play with my family.
Oh I love this! You are so creative!!
Becca- Thank you. The same goes for you!
How cute & fun! We love Yahtzee at our house! We’d get a kick out of this!
Kristyn- Thank you. The kids love it!
I need to do this! Yahtzee is such a fun game & this is a cute twist!
Kristyn- Thank you.
What a creative idea!! So cute & a fun, family game to play on Valentine’s Day or anytime!
Natalie- Thank you!