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Race of Hearts.


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Valentine's Day

Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St.
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 valentines? Well, here's a way to have fun and stay fit! You and three or more other kids can have a Valentine's Day relay race relay race

Race between teams in which each team member successively covers a specified portion of the course. In track events, such as the 4 × 100-m and 4 × 400-m relays, the runner finishing one leg passes a baton to the next runner while both are running within
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You need:
Red construction paper
Crayon or marker
Scissors
Yarn or string


Directions:

1. Cut out fourteen paper hearts.

2. Write each of the sayings listed below on two hearts. Underline underline

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 the action word in each saying.

3. Make two identical sets of hearts.

4. Lay a START line on the floor with string or yarn.

5. Put each set of hearts upside Upside

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 down in two piles across the room from START.

Heart sayings:

[love] My heart skips a beat over you.

[love] I'd walk miles for you.

[love] I'd crawl To search the Internet for hosts, Web pages or blogs. See crawler.  far to be with you.

[love] I jump for joy when I see you.

[love] I hop(e) you'll be my valentine.

[love] Waddle it be? Will you be mine?

[love] I'm head over heels (somersaults) for you.

To play:

1. Players make two teams and line up behind START.

2. Players take turns walking backward to pull a heart from their stack.

3. Players do the action word all the way back to START.

4. The first team to finish all the hearts wins.

Remember:

* In a relay race, a player cannot go until the teammate in front is done.

* The player must do the underlined action word or lose a turn.
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Title Annotation:valentine designs
Author:Hoover, Janet Flynn
Publication:U.S. Kids
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 1, 2000
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