With Valentine’s Day coming up it’s a great time to start thinking about celebrating Galentine’s with the incredible women in your circle. Galentine’s is an opportunity to come together with the women who live close to you and celebrate sisterhood within your support system. While Galentine’s celebrations may be full of delicious treats and aesthetically pleasing, they can also be a celebration of strong women and resilient LGBTQ+ friends who love and support one another and prevail together. Galentine’s is a perfect moment to spend time together without significant others and a time to lean into your femininity.
A Galentine’s celebration can be a time to share a meal or a movie and catch up with one another over laughter and reminiscing. It can also be a time to create community and reach out to women you’d like to get to know more to bond over a craft. You can elevate your celebration with local flowers, yummy snacks, or delicious drinks. Below are 5 ideas for crafts & cocktails to get your Galentine’s plans rolling.
Galentines Craft Ideas:
- Candle painting: This cozy idea is a great way to bond over candlelight and use small colorful tealight candles to paint candlesticks. Alternatively, if you want to paint in more detail, you can use these wax pens found on Amazon.
- Make homemade Valentine’s cards for the elderly to deliver to a local nursing home: This is a great way to honor womanhood or the elderly in general if you’d like to cheer up members of your community who are homebound. You can make cards together for one of you to deliver before Valentine’s Day.
- Jewelry/makeup storage boxes: Pick up small wooden boxes or trinket boxes from your local dollar store or Hobby Lobby to decorate and make little jewelry boxes together. Even if your friends already have a jewelry storage system this can make a great gift for the other women in your life.
- Charm bracelet/charm necklaces: Making charm bracelets or necklaces with friends is such a fun and cute trend and can be such an adorable way to get creative to have something to wear out together in the springtime.
- Painted mason jar candle holders: Whether you want to use glitter paint to have sparkling mason jars or acrylic paint to curate a cute Valentine’s Day candle holder for tealight candles, this is a fun and affordable craft that doesn’t take up too much time! You can even pick up a 12-pack of mason jars from Walmart for under $15. Alternatively, you could paint little flower pots with acrylic paint for the coming of spring and spray them with a sealant.
Galentines Cocktail Ideas:
- Espresso Heart-tinis: You know you and your girls love espresso martinis. So, for Valentine’s Day why not make an Espresso martini and add the classic Valentine’s Day Sweethearts candies? Adding a few of these conversation hearts along with the espresso beans would be a great way to garnish this Galentine’s drink.
- Watermelon Cherry Jello Shots: Jello shots are a crowd favorite and are easy to make according to your Galentine’s theme. By choosing Jello Flavors such as pink lemonade, watermelon or cherry you can include all the Valentine’s Day colors. You can even try layering the jello. Simply prepare half a cup of cherry jello, let it chill, and then add a layer of watermelon jello on top.
- Strawberry Mojito: Make a classic mojito with a strawberry twist to give this drink a red pop of strawberries for your Valentine’s theme.
- Raspberry Moscato Cocktail: This wine cocktail is a pretty pink drink to add to your Galentines night repertoire. The Raspberry Moscato cocktail can be garnished with a fruit skewer to complete its look.
- Strawberries & Chill: Strawberries and Chill is a refreshing rum or vodka-based drink that also includes strawberries and hibiscus simple syrup.
If it’s way too cold where you are for a drink on the rocks, you can opt to make Hot toddies or Mexican Hot Chocolate with peppermint schnapps and pink marshmallows to have ideas for warm drinks with a Valentine’s flare.
Affordable Decorative Ideas for Galentine’s Parties:
- Heart balloon wall: This makes a great photo backdrop! Look for balloons at your local dollar store to blow up with your friends and situate these balloons in 3-4 columns on your wall using sticky dots to create an adorable 3-dimensional backdrop.
- Heart-shaped garlands with construction paper: All you need is construction paper, scissors, and a stapler to place two folded strips of construction paper together in a heart. The finished product looks so pretty hanging in a window or spaced out vertically, aligned with other garlands to create a backdrop.
- Pool noodle flower frames: You can create your own floral heart photo prop frame by slicing a pool noodle in half to zip tie it together in a heart formation to be filled with real or artificial flowers so you can use it annually.
- Candles galore: Whether you’re painting them as part of a craft or not, you can never have enough candles as decor around your Galentine’s table.
- Tissue Paper hearts: These adorable, money-saving decorations can be made with just glue, tissue paper and a pencil for shaping. You can use recycled cardboard to cut a heart out for the base to glue the tissue paper puffs onto. It’s a cute craft that you could do in advance to have as door decor or include as a Galentine’s craft night activity.
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