Planning a Valentine's/100 Day Party for 5Th Graders.

*Eat 100 snacks: put out blank 100 graphs (10 rows of 10 squares) and bowls of small food (M&Ms, apple jacks, goldfish, raisins, choc. chips, etc.), and have the kids line up 10 rows of 10 food items -- and then eat them.

*100 necklaces -- lace up 100 things (cheerios? beads?) on a piece of yarn.

A great snack is "Bugs on a Log." Celery sticks spread with peanut butter (sunflower butter if there are allergies) and topped with raisins. Have fun!

Greateset game I did for a valentines day party...
My sons fourth grade classrom with stations, same setup as yours. :)

A relay race. two teams. one empty bowl one large bowl filled with candy hearts. Using chopsticks, each person on the team (or timed....whatever works for you) has a turn carrying as many candy hearts from the filled to empty bowl. team with most heats in the empty bowl wins. do NOT demonstrate! let them figure it out. kids are pretty amazing on how they use the chopsticks.

For our Valentine's Food Prep on Friday we are having the kids put strawberry cream cheese on a plain bagel and topping it with sliced strawberries.

Definitely check out the Crafty Crow! This website has TONS of ideas for all ages--sometimes snacks, but mostly crafty ideas. It is basically a clearinghouse of links and photos to crafty people in the blogosphere. :)

http://belladia.typepad.com/crafty_crow/

Right now there are zillions of Valentine's ideas.

Also check out the TipJunkie:
http://tipjunkie.blogspot.com/

Scroll past her blog competition and there are Valentine's ideas.

I used to teach 3rd grade, and I thought I'd seen everything--much like your 5th graders-ha! I hadn't; there are always new, fun ideas at these places. Good luck!

A.,
check out www.familyfun.com They have lots of great ideas.

My son's class is going to make trail mix (nut-free) by counting out ten groups of ten items, and then mixing things together. (similar to what was suggested below). We're bringing pretzels, someone else is bringing raisins, etc. They're going to bag them up and use them for snack times, too.

Take a cookie cutter and cut cheese into heart shapes for crackers (Time consuming I know but have the kids help). With crackers and a meat tray.
Or if you can get several of the moms to help get the squirt cheese cans and sliced red apples.
Heart shaped veggie or fruit pizzas.

My son said origami something...

Draw a valentines picture on thick paper and cut it out for a puzzle.

Have several container with items in them 100 jelly beans, 125 hot tamales, 150 m&m, 175 redhots, and make them guess which one has a hundred. All red and white and pink candies. Closest one gets something small and fun.

Thats all I can think of now I'll let you know if I come up with more.