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.