Happy Valentine's day (Part 1)


© Wayne Dawe

After a brief respite from the grand Chinese New Year celebration, it's time to move onto the next big holiday of the season, Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is one of those holidays with a bit of a checkered past but two sites that give a history that is safe for the whole family are The History of St. Valentines Day on Family.com which is part of the Disney conglomerate, and Hallmark with their History of the Valentine's Day card. As mentioned in the family.com article, the Victorians are the ones to thank for democratizing a festival so that kids could exchange cards of friendship with other kids and also get to eat candy. It seems that whenever kids take over a holiday, candy becomes involved somewhere.

Hallmark also has an article on the Story of St. Valentine. Both of the Hallmark articles are illustrated with photographs of historic Valentine cards. Don't forget to click on the picture to get a bigger view. The National Museum of American History not just for kids page also has some pictures of historic American Valentines. Click on the V to see.

Grace Sylvan has a fun Valentine's day page with games, puzzles and links. Be sure to check out two of my favorites that are listed on Grace's page, Bry-Back Manor which has new activities for all the major holidays and Be my Valentine said Billy Bear at worldvillage.com.

Deborah Jeter, Suite 101's Music Education editor. also has a Valentine's day article chock full of great sites to visit.

If you're a first-time visitor, don't neglect browsing through some of my past articles. Be sure to visit Kids on Suite 101. This page gives you pointers to other kid-friendly topics and links on Suite 101.

Also, don't miss the Suite 101 feature on Black History Month running throughout February here at Suite 101 and don't forget to drop into Winter Olympics on Suite 101 and see what the other editors at Suite 101 have been up to. See you next week; be sure to come back again.

P.S. Don't miss the second part of this article which has more great Valentine's day sites which comes out February 10th.

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2.   Feb 8, 1998 1:12 PM
I've got a few more sites that I picked through the week, be sure to check back on Tuesday.

Wayne (Kid's Stuff) Dawe ...


-- posted by Wayne_Dawe


1.   Feb 7, 1998 5:30 PM
Very nice selection of sites, Wayne. I bookmarked the History site's music room page.
It just may appear in one of my articles somewhere down the line. I enjoyed browsing through the games too. Thank ...

-- posted by Deborah_Jeter





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