For some, it is a day like any other; for others, an opportunity to give their loved one a gift and spend time with them. However it is, let’s take a closer look at this day. When is it celebrated, why is it celebrated, and if you have someone to celebrate it with, we’ll give you a few gift tips.
Why and when Valentine’s Day is celebrated
Saint Valentine’s Day (shortened to Valentine’s Day) is celebrated every year on 14 February. It originated as an Anglo-Saxon holiday, but it spread throughout Europe and is also celebrated here. Among young people, Valentine’s Day is better known than the classic holiday of lovers — May Day.
Professors and historians do not agree much on how this holiday came about, but today it is celebrated as a holiday of love between partners. Traditionally, partners exchange small heart-shaped gifts — cards, jewelry, chocolates, but also flowers, etc. — thereby showing their affection and love in the relationship.
How to enjoy Valentine’s Day to the fullest with children
If you already have older children, you can make a Valentine’s card together, which will surely delight both parents. You’ll spend time together and also develop fine motor skills in children and creativity. You can let them decide what the card will look like. Whether you’ll stick something on it, draw on it, cut it out, use glitter, etc.
Throughout the day, you can prepare dishes with a love theme with the children. For example, pancakes or heart-shaped muffins for breakfast, or you can bake heart-shaped gingerbread or cookies for a snack. You can mix strawberries into the morning porridge so it turns red and decorate it with fresh raspberries arranged in the shape of a heart. Anything that comes to mind.
If you have a heart-shaped ice cube tray at home, you can make homemade chocolates with the children, which they will surely be excited about and will snack on. You can also try decorative hearts made from modeling clay.
How to enjoy Valentine’s Day to the fullest without children
If you do not have children yet, or if someone can watch them for you on this day, then be sure to take advantage of it. Strengthening a romantic relationship should happen throughout the entire year, but if you can’t think of another way, then Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity.
You can surprise your partner with breakfast in bed, a walk together, or even a small material gift. The sky is the limit; it depends on what the other person likes. You definitely won’t go wrong if you spend this day consciously with your partner, which means no scrolling social media, no work calls after hours, and no watching football on TV (unless you both like it). Set this day aside just for yourselves, and you’ll see that you’ll want to repeat it more often than just once a year.
What you can do to delight your loved one
Material gifts
- jewelry,
- flowers,
- chocolate,
- heart-shaped gifts,
- underwear,
- perfume,
- some intimate accessory,
- anything your partner likes.
Shared experiences
- breakfast in bed,
- a walk around the neighborhood or a trip to nature/the city,
- a visit to the cinema or wellness center,
- couples massage,
- all-day lounging in bed,
- an intimate moment,
- playing board games.
You will surely come up with other gifts or experiences as well. You can tell your partner that you’ll buy/make a gift starting with a certain letter to make it more fun.
Enjoy this day with your partner and remember that it is not just about giving heart-shaped chocolate boxes, because that is how it is shown to us on TV, but mainly about consciously spending time together. Love each other.
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