101 Ways to Say “I LOVE YOU” by smartmama
(Disclaimer: I don’t claim to be the originator of all these ideas-- This is a compilation of things I have done, seen others do, or had done for me!! I have no idea who originated them!)
1. Write Top Ten “LOVE” lists (i.e. top ten things I love about you or top ten favorite memories, etc.) post on the refrigerator or hang using clothespins from a clothesline, or make a mobile using a wire hanger.
2. Tuck love notes in their lunch bag- use fun papers, stickers, or write on sentimental items like tickets stubs.
3. Hide love notes in their suitcase, briefcase, planner, or stick them in their socks, underwear, and pockets.
4. Love Note Parking Tickets-stick a note under the windshield wiper and leave treats on the seat.
5. Make a Love Pillowcase with pocket/envelope for notes and treats, sneak it onto someone’s pillow let them know you love them.
6. Serve love food in heart shapes (cookies, sandwiches, pancakes- anything using heart cookie cutter), spell out love in it (cut into pie crust, frosting, etc.), or write on or stick stickers on bananas & oranges.
7. Write original or copy famous love poems and leave around the house.
8. Love Rx- fill bottles with red, white, and pink candies- attach a prescription.
9. Love letter post office, sew heart boxer shorts together at the bottom of the legs, and clothespin onto a hanger, and hang in the closet. Place notes and treats in it.10. Before you leave on a trip or for a special day, kiss a stack of pink Post-it notes leave them everywhere (i.e. back of the toilet, underwear drawer, refrigerator, in shoes, etc.)
11. Picture frames decorate with hearts or X’s and O’s, fill with pictures of loved ones.
12. I Can’t Bear to Live Without You: Take cinnamon bears and hide all over the house. In unexpected places for them to find over the next few days
13. Correspondence- write fun notes and mail them to home, work, or school-- be sure to use love stamps and Seal with a Kiss!! Try old fashioned love letters, use plain stationary, sealing wax, and dip pens.
14. Love Piggy Bank- fill with treats and X's and O's god fors.
15. Surprise the person you love with an unexpected visit and make a point of telling then you love them.
16. I love you place cards- decorate with thumbprint hearts, glitter, funny pictures.
17. Red Helium Balloons with Love notes and kisses inside.
18. Elementary Love notes- “Check here if you love me, check what you want to do tonight.”
19. “Your love is better than_______________” fill in the blank and leave that treat.
20. Magnets for the refrigerator- I love____or ___+___, with pictures, draw, print on computer or cut out magazine letters and laminate.
21. Leave an “I love you” message on the computer screen saver.
22. Come up with Love Signals you can discretely give when stuck in a crowd.
23. Write I love you in the sand, snow, mud, or cut in the lawn (for extra impact in snow go over it with water and food color mixed together or if it won’t last take a picture with it.
24. Love notes hidden in food (write or type then wrap in tinfoil and bake into item)
25. Watch your favorite Romantic, Love movies.
26. Buy them some romantic music, sing or play their favorite love songs.
27. Love Picnic- surprise someone with a picnic have it all packed and ready to go.
28. Buy or make a special ornament to celebrate you love and hang it on your Christmas tree.
29. A love tree with - tie little notes and candies on the branches. As they take off a treat they get to read one thing you love about them.
30. Make a Love is spoken here or Love at Home display for home.
31. Adopt a Family Theme, Motto, or Scripture, have everyone memorize it.
32. At FHE or Sunday dinner take time for an “I love you moment”-- I love you because _________.
33. Pager #s- have a special code that means certain things.
34. Phone Messages- leave a message or a song at home or work.
35. Family Traditions about Love, or special traditions for Valentines Day, send family pictures to friends, share a favorite story, or have a family ritual.
36. Call people Terms of Endearment and create special nicknames -- such as darling, sweetheart, etc.-let your kids chose ones for you.
37. I love you in different languages (Leave different messages or cover a room in post it notes, write it a different way on each and make them figure it out.)
38. I Love you Bookmarks, add a picture of you, sneak it into their book.
40. Love Blanket- to comfort people when they are sad or sick, embroider names of family members, let everyone design a square, sponge paint with hearts, or pattern with hearts, X’s, and O’s.
41. Compliment them in front of others. It helps people feel special and noticed.
42. Surprise them when they come home from work or school with a lot of unexpected hugs and kisses.
43. Love flower petal trail or messages, you can get bags of petals from your local flower store inexpensively- spell out messages on the floor or make a trail leading somewhere. (They also are great in bath water).
44. Love diary- keep a diary that tells what love means to you, how you learned it, when. (i.e Love is compassion, love is being supportive, love is sharing)
45. X’s and O’s with shaving cream, lipstick, shoe polish, bathtub crayons, window chalk in the shower, on the mirror, or windows.
46. Instead of asking them to do chores ask the to do chores ask what you can do for them.
47. I love you placemats, make them with children’s artwork & pictures, contact paper them.
48. Send a love package- fill with fun gifts, mix candy and real peanuts in with packing peanuts. Or send a “Sorry-I-can’t-be-there-so-I-am-sending-you-a-party” (send cake mix, frosting, Kool-aid, a tape with greetings and music, a game, etc).
49. Love fortune cookies, write your own messages, put in Chinese takeout boxes.
50. Sentimental artwork- draw or paint something that reminds you of them, add in hidden messages or buy a print of some piece of artwork special to both of you.
51. Read Love Books to each other: books about love, love stories, children’s books, love poems.
52. Write Love Books- 101 things I love about you, What I love about you or other homemade books. Use blank sketchbooks, or make accordion fold books, or punch holes and lace with ribbons.
53. Practice Love rituals- talking after work, talking by the bathtub, tucking into bed each night, etc.
54. Love bug- when people are sad or upset leave the bug with a little note:
“Didn’t mean to bug you! I just wanted to hug you! I am sorry.”
55. Have a thank you party. Invite over people who do things for you, write each person a thank you note telling them what you appreciate about them have a special lunch or dinner.
56. Say I Love you with flowers, use Victorian “language of flowers” to say different things (check a book or ask your florist).
57. Collect love things from different vacation spots or road trips- i.e. Virginia is for Lovers postcards.
58. Make a decopauged box from sentimental pictures, wrapping paper, etc. Fill with ticket stubs, letters, momentos, and notes.
59. Love Coupon Book- fill will good fors for things they want or need. Make them turn in one each week to be sure they are used.
60. Decorate sugar cookies in the shape of hearts or x’s and o’s. Make cupcakes in heart shapes by place in a marble between the liner and the side of the tin. Spell out messages, write one letter on each cookie or cupcake and make them unscramble.
61. Make heart shaped pillows, out of velvet or heart printed
62. Make special homemade cards with stamps, old Victorian pictures, fabric scraps.
63. Make fun love wrapping paper, stamp with potato stamps, sponges, string prints.
64. Have a Romantic dinner complete with menus, candles and music.
65. Make them Love notes stationary, tie up with ribbon or place in a decorated box.
66. Love Basket fill with fun love stuff, like bath basket with scented candles, soap, lotion, etc.
67. Love Scavenger Hunt- leave clues about what you love about them-- have it eventually lead to you.
68. Write your love story in a little book with illustrations or pictures, or write your family history together to leave a legacy of your love, write like a fairy tale, poem or a Dick and Jane books.
69. Stick a picture of you and an “I Love you” note somewhere unexpected (In with the bills, in his toolbox, in the laundry room).
70. Honor someone. Get five of their friends or family members to tell you why they love them- put them all together in a little tribute.
71. Make a relationship scrapbook, or if they are gone a lot make a mini album or book so they will remember you when they are gone or have something to look at when they are talking to you on the phone.
72. Make them Love breakfast in bed, make heart shaped pancakes, cook eggs in a heart cookie cutter, slice strawberries in the shape of hearts.
73. E-mail them love notes or virtual postcards.
74. Have a friend bring them a special delivery at work or home for no reason or a silly reason like “Happy House Closing”, “Happy Un birthday”, “Happy Tax day”, etc
75. Make giant Rice Krispie Treat Kisses cover in tin foil and make flags.
76. Boo- Boo bag- for when anyone gets hurt make a little bag to put the ice in always deliver with a kiss.
77. Do a secret errand, (fill their car with gas, do their laundry, etc.)
78. Say it with conversation hearts, use quantity to convey a message (i.e. 100 Kiss Me’s)
79. Secret Valentines, (write on white paper with white crayons so they have to paint over it to read it or paint it in glow in the dark paint so when they go to bed they see it.).
80. Have a love party- use heart shaped food, raspberry love punch, have a kissing booth for couples, have a “tree” (made of construction paper for people to carve their initials in), play love games, make everyone write love poems, etc.
81. Copy a dictionary/thesaurus entry on love, highlight all the parts that apply to your love and leave it somewhere.
82. Creative valentines- Be my sweetie pie, I’m nuts for you, I go bananas for you, I chews you! etc.
83. Buy them a new shirt, dress, tie, etc. Wrap it up and leave with a note of when and where to meet you.
84. Make homemade truffles or get little ones in boxes to set at their place to make a regular dinner special.
85. Make a dinner where everything is for two or family style- put two straws in the glass, a giant bowl of pasta, Chocolate sack for 2 for dessert.
86. Sprinkle XO or heart confetti around their plate or on the table.
87. Make love centerpieces with flowers, floating candles, candy, tie hearts from the light fixtures at different lengths. For the kids table make a dancing spaghetti jar color water with red food coloring.
88. Love Service Bag- each week each member of the family pulls out one loving thing to do each week for family or community.
89. Have LOVE art exhibit, finger paint, draw, make red and pink playdough sculptures, exhibit them, or invite another family to join in. Have the category be-- What love is! A great FHE activity.
90. Contact a local hospitals child life program, retirement community, or nursing home- make tray favors for the patients or residents. Make holiday door decorations and treats for nursing homes.
91. Recreate your first date, first kiss, or memorable occasion. (Wear the same clothes, eat the same food, go the same places).
92. Bushel and a Peck- fill a bushel basket with all of their favorite foods or all red and white foods and deliver with a kiss.
93. Set up a romantic dinner for someone else, play chef, waitress, baby-sitter, etc.
94. Play good fairy- sneak in and make their bed, vacuum or dust and leave a kiss and note from the Good Fairy.
95. Go on a road trip, day trip, or weekend away together.
96. Make their favorite meal - get recipes from their mom, spouse, or kids.
97. Write a love letter- someone translate it into a language they know or write it in code.
98. Give them gifts that they can use everyday that will remind them of you. (make it fit occupation or hobbies- i.e. teacher: red pens, heart stickers, red pencils, red glitter, etc.)
99. Do something new together: attend classes, make something or just go on an adventure.
100. Make or buy a special tablecloth or table square or get a special plate for them (Hint: red is great because it also works for Valentines Day, Fourth of July, and Christmas.)
101. Show them your love isn’t temporal. Take time to plan a fun trip to the temple, special FHE, share journals, testimonies, Ensign articles, scriptures and remember to pray together.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxWHAT DID I DO TO SAY I LOVE YOU TODAY?xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Thursday, January 11, 2007
101 More Ways to Say I Love You
101 MORE WAYS TO SAY I LOVE YOU! by smartmama
1. Decorate the house to look like love. (i.e. use red ribbons, hearts, candles, balloons, candy, flowers, etc.)
2. Buy a box of children's valentines cards. Put a message on each one and hide them everywhere.
3. Have a “How it all Started!” night. Sit around reminiscing and tell your favorite dating or friendship stories.
4. Get them excited about a big date night or holiday. Put conversation hearts or candies by their plate at every meal to count down.
5. Make up a kissing/hugging ritual (i.e. every time you go through a doorway or always hug after family prayers)
6. Mail or have an invitation delivered to them for a special night or day with you.
7. Set up an “Every Time” (i.e. always bring muffins to the office on Mondays, every time I visit my fiancee I bring a different kind of cookies).
8. Write comic sketches about your past together. (Ours include: Hunter and Hunted, Why we Always Have Cupcakes on St. Patrick's Day, & The Movie Theater Incident)
9. Make cupid’s arrows using heart shaped gum drop candies, a pack of gum, bamboo skewers, and ribbon. Put the skewer through the gum, put a heart on the point and put a ribbon tail on it.
10. Make them a tape so they can hear your voice all the time-- especially good if they are far away. Sing, play an instrument, tell stories, or read books.
11. “You fill up my senses...” Give something you can see, taste, touch, smell, hear. (That line is from Annie’s Song by John Denver)
12. Spoil them-- Give a back scratch, brush their hair, paint their nails.
13. Do a study on love in the scriptures, tell them about your favorite verses and what you learned.
14. Write a children's book about them. Be sure to do a page about the author!
15. Use empty conversation heart boxes, put the person’s picture behind the heart shaped window. Attach a magnet to the back and hang it to the refrigerator.
16. Love Story Telling- Invite people over to tell their love stories or their parents. (It’s more fun if they act out parts, use props or have them bring a written script and make others act it out)
17. Have a Love Family Home Evening with songs like Love One Another, Love Lesson, Love treats.
18. “Do you know what I love? Day” Go to a store, museum etc. See if the other person knows your tastes. Have them point out the things they think you would “love”!
19. Cheesy Love Song Night! Make it a rule when you are out a on date to only listen to cheesy love songs on the radio. Make it your job to find the Cheesiest song of the night & one that best fits your relationship.
20. Read fun short stories about love and relationships. (F. Scott Fitzgerald has really great ones!! My favorites are The Offshore Pirate, Head and Shoulders, Emotional Bankruptcy.)
21. Write a “What I Miss Most About You When You Aren’t Here” card.
22. On butcher paper or computer paper draw your relationship timeline with dates and pictures (I dated allen 3x over 5 years- so we call it Round 1, Intermission, Round 2,)
23. Use cartoons from the Sunday paper. White out the bubbles and add your own dialogue.
24. Take a Relationship Survey-- i.e. the RELATE available from BYU fill it out, to see your relationships similarities and differences.- To get it call 1801 378-INFO and ask for Dr.Tom Holman & the Marraige Consortium.
25. Make a Love Candy Necklace. Roll up pieces of candy in a long piece of clear plastic wrap. Tie off in between the candies with ribbon.
26. Make a wall hanging with pictures, thoughts, etc. Pictures can be transferred onto fabric w/ heat transfer paper.
27. Surprise them w/ a welcome home sign on the door or in the front window and if you’re ambitious put up Christmas lights!
28. Name your recipes after the people you got them from or events when you first had them (i.e. Shelah’s M&D’s Banana Anniversary Cake, Aunt Launa’s Jabba Chicken from Brendon & Rachel’s Wedding).
29. Don’t Let it get the best of you!! When you are upset, or tired make the extra effort to do a loving thing instead of complaining. (take out the trash, say you are sorry, sweep the floor)
30. Give Awards for anything (i.e. Best Visiting Teacher to Favorite Boyfriend, You can buy 1st place ribbons at craft stores but, it is more fun to buy a trophy at DI and tape a new label on it!)
31. Put up a graffiti board in your apt, classroom, home, work- Let people write up there who they love or what they love (This was the hottest thing in my 5th grade class!)
32. Leave a kiss on their car window.
33. Strawberry hearts. If you cut the stem out of a strawberry and slice it long wise it naturally makes a heart shape.
34. Play mystery bag (this is fun with kids and adults) fill a pillowcase with love or things that remind you of them. They have to reach in and feel the object and try to identify before pulling it out.
35. “I Couldn’t Wait for You to Come Home!!”. Have warm cookies and milk or another snack waiting when they come home from errands, school, work, etc.
36. Trace messages on their hand or back, or send messages holding hands using Morse code.
37. Do You know the Language of Love? See who can list the most terms of endearment, love songs, romantic movies, etc. in 1 minute.
38. What I Love- share your favorite meal and recipe, quote, song, or book with someone.
39. Paint pottery together (it is fun to divide the piece in half and they paint ½ and you paint ½) Or paint it for them so they think of you when they eat. (Look under pottery in the yellow pages)
40. Offer to go grocery shopping, to the gas station, or to run errands with them just so they will have company.
41. Greet them at the airport with their favorite treat or a little gift for the ride home. (I even got my favorite milkshake packed in dry ice brought to me once)
42. Make personalized candles- buy those religious or plain jar candles at the grocery store cover the outside with fun printed papers or decorate yourself, tie up with ribbon.
43. Bring them a treat from the grocery store (My favorite thing is fresh raspberries or Ben & Jerry’s)
44. Have a bedtime ritual. (These were the questions I got asked by my mom every night. Do you have any problems? Do you have any troubles? Do you have any secrets? What was your most special time today? What is my wish for you? Then she would do little animal footprints on our backs and we would have to guess the animal.)
45. Be the Secret Cupid Phantom who leaves treats and notes on peoples doorstep and runs away (sign the notes with a kiss!)
46. Make a video for them using pictures of you all together and some of your favorite music.
47. Always greet them with a hug!
48. Fill their bed with notes and candy, and then make it up nice and neatly - so they are in for a surprise!
49. Work on your family history and genealogy-- what better way to say I love you to your ancestors.
50. Rise and shine-- Wake them up in the morning to good music rather than alarms, yelling, or turning on the lights (hint: start soft and turn it up over a few minutes)
51. Send them $5 anonymously in the mail.
52. Love Piñata- fill it with candy and notes telling things you love about that person.
53. Carve your initials in something (only if it belongs to you!! Like the picnic table in the backyard or a hidden deck corner.)
54. Bring them silly things that relate to funny jokes you have together-- The dollar store is great for this.
55. Put a toy or surprise in their cereal bowl or box.
56. Buy them something for an upcoming event (i.e. earrings for a date, a tie for an interview, some bottles for a new baby)
57. Invite people over to do a fun group activity like making ice cream, decorating sugar cookies, making applesauce, or pies.
58. As you are listening to the radio or CDs and singing along, change the words to make all the songs about them.
59. Polish their shoes and leave a note in them.
60. Tell them one thing they did that was great that day or something you appreciate about them.
61. Steal the newspaper or magazine before they get a chance to read it. Go through and write notes and draw on the pages (especially the advertisements and margins).
62. Create a love bulletin board, to you hang things that remind you of them like: pictures, love notes, letters, tickets, etc. (You can paint the board or decorate with fabric, ribbon, & pins)
63. Make a cut-out magnet of them or you! Take a photograph use an exacto knife or tiny scissors to cut the person out. Glue the picture to some stiff layers of posterboard. Cut it out again and back it with magnets.
64. Create a fort with blankets and pillows, watch a movie, read stories, or eat snacks in it. You can even make passwords to get in like XO or I love you!
65. Go to a music store or bookstore-- each person spends an hour finding music, or book they think that person would enjoy orromantic things.
66. Make road or air trip packages. Pack snacks and treats for along the way. Then they can open one thing every hour or so. This will really make a long trip go better!
67. Iron their pants and shirts and leave notes in the pockets!
68. When you give them a book, write a note/dedication in the front cover for them.
69. Play he loves me, he loves me not with weeds or flowers.
70. This is your life. Make up an imaginary story about sometime in their future life (i.e. Your Summer Romance, You life in 5 years!-- it is really fun my roommates and I used to play this all the time.)
71. Make a special point of sitting close to them, flirting with them, paying them lots of attention when you go out or stay in. Be a good example of LOVE!
72. Make bath time fun. Soap up their back and trace letters & numbers on it and make crowns with the shampoo in their hair. Bring in lots of fun toys (my favorite are empty syrup bottles they make great fountains.)
73. I Had to Get it-- When you are in a store a or on vacation and something reminds you of then just buy it and mail it or drop it off to them as an I was thinking about you gift! A lot of bookstores have really great postcards.
74. Celebrate someone. Have an unbirthday party for them. Complete with cake, games, and decorations, and gifts
75. Make them a care package for when they are sick (OJ, crackers, soup, lozenges, vitamin C, games or videos).
76. Leave a note in the sugar bowl telling them how sweet they are.
77. Loving Lunches-- Let the kids decorate dad’s lunch sack
78. Use glow in the dark stickers to leave them a love message on the ceiling.
79. Surprise them with hot chocolate on cold day and fresh lemonade on a warm one.
80. Make up a lullaby for them. Be sure to write down the words and keep a copy where they can find it later.
81. Love Helper- Offer to carry things for them (bags, groceries, books, etc.)
82. Write a love note in sidewalk chalk on the walk or on the driveway (sometimes the best view is from an upstairs window!
83. Place an ad in newspaper proclaiming your love or to commemorate anniversary.
84. Hang little gifts and hearts for them from the ceiling using ribbons and streamers.
85. Hang a sign on their window so they will see it when they open their blinds.
86. Sneak in and decorate their office, hide some little notes to be found later (don’t do too much so they get in trouble!!)
87. Hang up accomplishments (not just kids!!) on the refrigerator (great school papers, acceptance letters, or certificates!)
88. Get up early and scrape the snow and ice off their car.
89. Take them out for a special birthday lunch or get it to go and bring it to them at school or work (especially fun for elementary school kids).
90. Make a love chain. Write something you love about them or an important event in your love history, staple or glue them together and hang it in the house.
91. Surprise them with tickets to opening day of a movie they have been dying to see.
92. Attend their games/athletic events/concerts/shows and bring lots of their friends. Sit in the front, cheer really loud, bring signs, and a special treat for them.
93. Make an extra lunch or dinner and drop it off for someone having a busy day- leave a love note with it.
94. Your Turn-- Let them pick the radio station, CDs, movies for the entire week.
95. Cut out funny stories, articles or comics for them to read and leave them where they will find them around the house.
96. Set up a tent in the backyard for a camp-out (complete with flashlights, sleeping bags, and s’mores) or have a fun night sleeping under the stars.
97. Build a snowman, give him a heart and make him holding flowers, chocolates, or an I love you sign.
98. Leave a note inside the textbook of their hardest class or where you know they will be studying.
99. Give them a Superman or Wonder Woman Award. You can find lots of fun paraphernalia to go along with this especially at comic book stores.
100. Attach love notes to a remote control car and steer it over to them. Let it bump into them until they notice.
101. Go to the bank or buy a piggy bank and start a college, mission, or vacation fund for them.
1. Decorate the house to look like love. (i.e. use red ribbons, hearts, candles, balloons, candy, flowers, etc.)
2. Buy a box of children's valentines cards. Put a message on each one and hide them everywhere.
3. Have a “How it all Started!” night. Sit around reminiscing and tell your favorite dating or friendship stories.
4. Get them excited about a big date night or holiday. Put conversation hearts or candies by their plate at every meal to count down.
5. Make up a kissing/hugging ritual (i.e. every time you go through a doorway or always hug after family prayers)
6. Mail or have an invitation delivered to them for a special night or day with you.
7. Set up an “Every Time” (i.e. always bring muffins to the office on Mondays, every time I visit my fiancee I bring a different kind of cookies).
8. Write comic sketches about your past together. (Ours include: Hunter and Hunted, Why we Always Have Cupcakes on St. Patrick's Day, & The Movie Theater Incident)
9. Make cupid’s arrows using heart shaped gum drop candies, a pack of gum, bamboo skewers, and ribbon. Put the skewer through the gum, put a heart on the point and put a ribbon tail on it.
10. Make them a tape so they can hear your voice all the time-- especially good if they are far away. Sing, play an instrument, tell stories, or read books.
11. “You fill up my senses...” Give something you can see, taste, touch, smell, hear. (That line is from Annie’s Song by John Denver)
12. Spoil them-- Give a back scratch, brush their hair, paint their nails.
13. Do a study on love in the scriptures, tell them about your favorite verses and what you learned.
14. Write a children's book about them. Be sure to do a page about the author!
15. Use empty conversation heart boxes, put the person’s picture behind the heart shaped window. Attach a magnet to the back and hang it to the refrigerator.
16. Love Story Telling- Invite people over to tell their love stories or their parents. (It’s more fun if they act out parts, use props or have them bring a written script and make others act it out)
17. Have a Love Family Home Evening with songs like Love One Another, Love Lesson, Love treats.
18. “Do you know what I love? Day” Go to a store, museum etc. See if the other person knows your tastes. Have them point out the things they think you would “love”!
19. Cheesy Love Song Night! Make it a rule when you are out a on date to only listen to cheesy love songs on the radio. Make it your job to find the Cheesiest song of the night & one that best fits your relationship.
20. Read fun short stories about love and relationships. (F. Scott Fitzgerald has really great ones!! My favorites are The Offshore Pirate, Head and Shoulders, Emotional Bankruptcy.)
21. Write a “What I Miss Most About You When You Aren’t Here” card.
22. On butcher paper or computer paper draw your relationship timeline with dates and pictures (I dated allen 3x over 5 years- so we call it Round 1, Intermission, Round 2,)
23. Use cartoons from the Sunday paper. White out the bubbles and add your own dialogue.
24. Take a Relationship Survey-- i.e. the RELATE available from BYU fill it out, to see your relationships similarities and differences.- To get it call 1801 378-INFO and ask for Dr.Tom Holman & the Marraige Consortium.
25. Make a Love Candy Necklace. Roll up pieces of candy in a long piece of clear plastic wrap. Tie off in between the candies with ribbon.
26. Make a wall hanging with pictures, thoughts, etc. Pictures can be transferred onto fabric w/ heat transfer paper.
27. Surprise them w/ a welcome home sign on the door or in the front window and if you’re ambitious put up Christmas lights!
28. Name your recipes after the people you got them from or events when you first had them (i.e. Shelah’s M&D’s Banana Anniversary Cake, Aunt Launa’s Jabba Chicken from Brendon & Rachel’s Wedding).
29. Don’t Let it get the best of you!! When you are upset, or tired make the extra effort to do a loving thing instead of complaining. (take out the trash, say you are sorry, sweep the floor)
30. Give Awards for anything (i.e. Best Visiting Teacher to Favorite Boyfriend, You can buy 1st place ribbons at craft stores but, it is more fun to buy a trophy at DI and tape a new label on it!)
31. Put up a graffiti board in your apt, classroom, home, work- Let people write up there who they love or what they love (This was the hottest thing in my 5th grade class!)
32. Leave a kiss on their car window.
33. Strawberry hearts. If you cut the stem out of a strawberry and slice it long wise it naturally makes a heart shape.
34. Play mystery bag (this is fun with kids and adults) fill a pillowcase with love or things that remind you of them. They have to reach in and feel the object and try to identify before pulling it out.
35. “I Couldn’t Wait for You to Come Home!!”. Have warm cookies and milk or another snack waiting when they come home from errands, school, work, etc.
36. Trace messages on their hand or back, or send messages holding hands using Morse code.
37. Do You know the Language of Love? See who can list the most terms of endearment, love songs, romantic movies, etc. in 1 minute.
38. What I Love- share your favorite meal and recipe, quote, song, or book with someone.
39. Paint pottery together (it is fun to divide the piece in half and they paint ½ and you paint ½) Or paint it for them so they think of you when they eat. (Look under pottery in the yellow pages)
40. Offer to go grocery shopping, to the gas station, or to run errands with them just so they will have company.
41. Greet them at the airport with their favorite treat or a little gift for the ride home. (I even got my favorite milkshake packed in dry ice brought to me once)
42. Make personalized candles- buy those religious or plain jar candles at the grocery store cover the outside with fun printed papers or decorate yourself, tie up with ribbon.
43. Bring them a treat from the grocery store (My favorite thing is fresh raspberries or Ben & Jerry’s)
44. Have a bedtime ritual. (These were the questions I got asked by my mom every night. Do you have any problems? Do you have any troubles? Do you have any secrets? What was your most special time today? What is my wish for you? Then she would do little animal footprints on our backs and we would have to guess the animal.)
45. Be the Secret Cupid Phantom who leaves treats and notes on peoples doorstep and runs away (sign the notes with a kiss!)
46. Make a video for them using pictures of you all together and some of your favorite music.
47. Always greet them with a hug!
48. Fill their bed with notes and candy, and then make it up nice and neatly - so they are in for a surprise!
49. Work on your family history and genealogy-- what better way to say I love you to your ancestors.
50. Rise and shine-- Wake them up in the morning to good music rather than alarms, yelling, or turning on the lights (hint: start soft and turn it up over a few minutes)
51. Send them $5 anonymously in the mail.
52. Love Piñata- fill it with candy and notes telling things you love about that person.
53. Carve your initials in something (only if it belongs to you!! Like the picnic table in the backyard or a hidden deck corner.)
54. Bring them silly things that relate to funny jokes you have together-- The dollar store is great for this.
55. Put a toy or surprise in their cereal bowl or box.
56. Buy them something for an upcoming event (i.e. earrings for a date, a tie for an interview, some bottles for a new baby)
57. Invite people over to do a fun group activity like making ice cream, decorating sugar cookies, making applesauce, or pies.
58. As you are listening to the radio or CDs and singing along, change the words to make all the songs about them.
59. Polish their shoes and leave a note in them.
60. Tell them one thing they did that was great that day or something you appreciate about them.
61. Steal the newspaper or magazine before they get a chance to read it. Go through and write notes and draw on the pages (especially the advertisements and margins).
62. Create a love bulletin board, to you hang things that remind you of them like: pictures, love notes, letters, tickets, etc. (You can paint the board or decorate with fabric, ribbon, & pins)
63. Make a cut-out magnet of them or you! Take a photograph use an exacto knife or tiny scissors to cut the person out. Glue the picture to some stiff layers of posterboard. Cut it out again and back it with magnets.
64. Create a fort with blankets and pillows, watch a movie, read stories, or eat snacks in it. You can even make passwords to get in like XO or I love you!
65. Go to a music store or bookstore-- each person spends an hour finding music, or book they think that person would enjoy orromantic things.
66. Make road or air trip packages. Pack snacks and treats for along the way. Then they can open one thing every hour or so. This will really make a long trip go better!
67. Iron their pants and shirts and leave notes in the pockets!
68. When you give them a book, write a note/dedication in the front cover for them.
69. Play he loves me, he loves me not with weeds or flowers.
70. This is your life. Make up an imaginary story about sometime in their future life (i.e. Your Summer Romance, You life in 5 years!-- it is really fun my roommates and I used to play this all the time.)
71. Make a special point of sitting close to them, flirting with them, paying them lots of attention when you go out or stay in. Be a good example of LOVE!
72. Make bath time fun. Soap up their back and trace letters & numbers on it and make crowns with the shampoo in their hair. Bring in lots of fun toys (my favorite are empty syrup bottles they make great fountains.)
73. I Had to Get it-- When you are in a store a or on vacation and something reminds you of then just buy it and mail it or drop it off to them as an I was thinking about you gift! A lot of bookstores have really great postcards.
74. Celebrate someone. Have an unbirthday party for them. Complete with cake, games, and decorations, and gifts
75. Make them a care package for when they are sick (OJ, crackers, soup, lozenges, vitamin C, games or videos).
76. Leave a note in the sugar bowl telling them how sweet they are.
77. Loving Lunches-- Let the kids decorate dad’s lunch sack
78. Use glow in the dark stickers to leave them a love message on the ceiling.
79. Surprise them with hot chocolate on cold day and fresh lemonade on a warm one.
80. Make up a lullaby for them. Be sure to write down the words and keep a copy where they can find it later.
81. Love Helper- Offer to carry things for them (bags, groceries, books, etc.)
82. Write a love note in sidewalk chalk on the walk or on the driveway (sometimes the best view is from an upstairs window!
83. Place an ad in newspaper proclaiming your love or to commemorate anniversary.
84. Hang little gifts and hearts for them from the ceiling using ribbons and streamers.
85. Hang a sign on their window so they will see it when they open their blinds.
86. Sneak in and decorate their office, hide some little notes to be found later (don’t do too much so they get in trouble!!)
87. Hang up accomplishments (not just kids!!) on the refrigerator (great school papers, acceptance letters, or certificates!)
88. Get up early and scrape the snow and ice off their car.
89. Take them out for a special birthday lunch or get it to go and bring it to them at school or work (especially fun for elementary school kids).
90. Make a love chain. Write something you love about them or an important event in your love history, staple or glue them together and hang it in the house.
91. Surprise them with tickets to opening day of a movie they have been dying to see.
92. Attend their games/athletic events/concerts/shows and bring lots of their friends. Sit in the front, cheer really loud, bring signs, and a special treat for them.
93. Make an extra lunch or dinner and drop it off for someone having a busy day- leave a love note with it.
94. Your Turn-- Let them pick the radio station, CDs, movies for the entire week.
95. Cut out funny stories, articles or comics for them to read and leave them where they will find them around the house.
96. Set up a tent in the backyard for a camp-out (complete with flashlights, sleeping bags, and s’mores) or have a fun night sleeping under the stars.
97. Build a snowman, give him a heart and make him holding flowers, chocolates, or an I love you sign.
98. Leave a note inside the textbook of their hardest class or where you know they will be studying.
99. Give them a Superman or Wonder Woman Award. You can find lots of fun paraphernalia to go along with this especially at comic book stores.
100. Attach love notes to a remote control car and steer it over to them. Let it bump into them until they notice.
101. Go to the bank or buy a piggy bank and start a college, mission, or vacation fund for them.
50 More Ways to Say I Love You
Even More Ways to Say I Love You!!!! 50 Bonus ideas (Special Thanks to smartmama's Winter 99/Famsci303 students)
When I taught Parenting at BYU. I let my students come up with their own ideas as part of a weekly assignment-- so here are some of their ideas!!
1. Get them a picture of their kids and frame and leave it somewhere as a surprise.
2. Put the toothpaste on their toothbrush in a heart shape, of course!
3. Sneak into their class before it starts and write I love you on the board or write initials: LMW + ATG.
4. Give them one of your most treasured possessions, write them a note explaining why it is important you.
5. Scrape a heart or initials in their icy or fogged up windshield.
6. Spell out I love you with Alphabets cereal either on a card or at their place.
7. Sneak up and cover them with a blanket when they are napping.
8. Make a giant poster detailing what you admire about them-- use magazines, pictures and drawings to make it extra cute.
9. Kidnap them and take them out for breakfast or a late night snack.
10. Draw pictures and write about each other and hang them up in your house.
11. Surprise them by sweeping them off their feet and carrying them over the threshold at unexpected times.
12. Leave out a box of lucky charms with a note -- I am lucky to know you!! (especially fun for St. Patrick’s Day!)
13. Have a leaf or pillow fight.
14. Plan a special drive to a scenic point to watch the sunrise or sunset. (Don’t forget snacks, camera, and music)
15. Spend time talking about your inner most thoughts and share something important to you.
16. Decorate the neighbors/ friends lawns with red and pink balloons on sticks for valentines day!
17. Throw little pebbles at their bedroom window to get their attention. (Especially fun if you serenade them next and DON’T throw to hard)
18. If you leave before them, leave out breakfast food and a place set just for them.
19. Ask for a picture of them, so you can always look at them and remember them.
20. Love Pizza. Write out I love you with toppings or cut pepperoni into hearts!
21. Create a holiday in honor of them and celebrate it every year. Be sure it has it’s own traditions and always mark it in big letters on the calendar.
22. Find a movie, song or story for the where the character has the same name as them.
23. Leave them some soup with the note “You are a souper friend!”
24. Buy their favorite scented candle have it burning in their room when they come home.
25. Make a love sundae. Put the toppings in a heart shape or decorate around the plate with hearts or little candies.
26. Leave notes by their alarm clocked (“Don’t be alarmed-- I just wanted you to know how much I love you”)
27. Be the laundry bandit-- steal their wash and squirt-gun point and return them washed folded and with a treat.
28. Leave I love you notes on food in the refrigerator.
29. Leave a Hershey kiss trail leading to someplace --like behind the bushes or a closet. Then jump out and attack.
30. Write I love you on a T-shirt and flash your love for them.
31. Make a folded valentine with a picture of each of you on a side so when the picture is folded closed you are “kissing”.
32. Park your cars so the bumpers are kissing.
33. Write messages on their clothes with disappearing ink.
34. Clear the furniture and have your own dance party.
35. Wear their favorite outfit or yours, do your hair their favorite way, and wear their favorite perfume.
36. Surprise them with an immaculate house. Leave cut out footprints on the floor if you want them to take a tour to really appreciate your efforts.
37. Tell everyone you know to tell your special someone that you love them the next time you see them.
38. Say it with luminaries. Make designs in the bags by cutting with an exacto knife or poking holes with a thumbtack or arrange them in a heart shape.
39. Make them a giant birthday poster -- “I am glad you were born because...” have everyone write on it.
40. Make them a video message. Get it aired on your local public access channel.
41. Spoil them-- spend the day opening their car doors, getting their coat, pulling out their chair, clear their place, and all sorts of little daily tasks.
42. Leave a note on the steering wheel-- “You drive me crazy!”
43. Leave your journal out with an entry you wrote about them, leave a heart with their name on it so they know you want them to read it!!
44. Roll up little messages and freeze them in ice cubes.
45. Surprise them with a sign and a treat following a big test, presentation, or game. Take time to talk to them about how it went.
46. Leave them a scripture reference-- have it lead to a scripture on love.
47. Vacuum a heart shape in the carpet.
48. Take their car fill it up with gas, wash it, vacuum it, and put those little air fresheners in it!
49. Go on a service scavenger hunt see how many nice things you can do in 2 hrs. to help you neighbors and friends bring a list of things (i.e. wash the floor, vacuum, dust, dishes)
50. Take time to write to or call an old friend that you haven’t communicated with in the last 6 months.
When I taught Parenting at BYU. I let my students come up with their own ideas as part of a weekly assignment-- so here are some of their ideas!!
1. Get them a picture of their kids and frame and leave it somewhere as a surprise.
2. Put the toothpaste on their toothbrush in a heart shape, of course!
3. Sneak into their class before it starts and write I love you on the board or write initials: LMW + ATG.
4. Give them one of your most treasured possessions, write them a note explaining why it is important you.
5. Scrape a heart or initials in their icy or fogged up windshield.
6. Spell out I love you with Alphabets cereal either on a card or at their place.
7. Sneak up and cover them with a blanket when they are napping.
8. Make a giant poster detailing what you admire about them-- use magazines, pictures and drawings to make it extra cute.
9. Kidnap them and take them out for breakfast or a late night snack.
10. Draw pictures and write about each other and hang them up in your house.
11. Surprise them by sweeping them off their feet and carrying them over the threshold at unexpected times.
12. Leave out a box of lucky charms with a note -- I am lucky to know you!! (especially fun for St. Patrick’s Day!)
13. Have a leaf or pillow fight.
14. Plan a special drive to a scenic point to watch the sunrise or sunset. (Don’t forget snacks, camera, and music)
15. Spend time talking about your inner most thoughts and share something important to you.
16. Decorate the neighbors/ friends lawns with red and pink balloons on sticks for valentines day!
17. Throw little pebbles at their bedroom window to get their attention. (Especially fun if you serenade them next and DON’T throw to hard)
18. If you leave before them, leave out breakfast food and a place set just for them.
19. Ask for a picture of them, so you can always look at them and remember them.
20. Love Pizza. Write out I love you with toppings or cut pepperoni into hearts!
21. Create a holiday in honor of them and celebrate it every year. Be sure it has it’s own traditions and always mark it in big letters on the calendar.
22. Find a movie, song or story for the where the character has the same name as them.
23. Leave them some soup with the note “You are a souper friend!”
24. Buy their favorite scented candle have it burning in their room when they come home.
25. Make a love sundae. Put the toppings in a heart shape or decorate around the plate with hearts or little candies.
26. Leave notes by their alarm clocked (“Don’t be alarmed-- I just wanted you to know how much I love you”)
27. Be the laundry bandit-- steal their wash and squirt-gun point and return them washed folded and with a treat.
28. Leave I love you notes on food in the refrigerator.
29. Leave a Hershey kiss trail leading to someplace --like behind the bushes or a closet. Then jump out and attack.
30. Write I love you on a T-shirt and flash your love for them.
31. Make a folded valentine with a picture of each of you on a side so when the picture is folded closed you are “kissing”.
32. Park your cars so the bumpers are kissing.
33. Write messages on their clothes with disappearing ink.
34. Clear the furniture and have your own dance party.
35. Wear their favorite outfit or yours, do your hair their favorite way, and wear their favorite perfume.
36. Surprise them with an immaculate house. Leave cut out footprints on the floor if you want them to take a tour to really appreciate your efforts.
37. Tell everyone you know to tell your special someone that you love them the next time you see them.
38. Say it with luminaries. Make designs in the bags by cutting with an exacto knife or poking holes with a thumbtack or arrange them in a heart shape.
39. Make them a giant birthday poster -- “I am glad you were born because...” have everyone write on it.
40. Make them a video message. Get it aired on your local public access channel.
41. Spoil them-- spend the day opening their car doors, getting their coat, pulling out their chair, clear their place, and all sorts of little daily tasks.
42. Leave a note on the steering wheel-- “You drive me crazy!”
43. Leave your journal out with an entry you wrote about them, leave a heart with their name on it so they know you want them to read it!!
44. Roll up little messages and freeze them in ice cubes.
45. Surprise them with a sign and a treat following a big test, presentation, or game. Take time to talk to them about how it went.
46. Leave them a scripture reference-- have it lead to a scripture on love.
47. Vacuum a heart shape in the carpet.
48. Take their car fill it up with gas, wash it, vacuum it, and put those little air fresheners in it!
49. Go on a service scavenger hunt see how many nice things you can do in 2 hrs. to help you neighbors and friends bring a list of things (i.e. wash the floor, vacuum, dust, dishes)
50. Take time to write to or call an old friend that you haven’t communicated with in the last 6 months.
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