Well this pages is dedicated to writing about valentines day facts and statistics as well as the facts that are there about how it all started and how it has come to be the most successful day for marketers all over the world.

If you have something interesting then please write to me and I will definitely add it here .

• St. Valentine is believed to have been executed on this day
• He wrote a letter to his beloved and signed from your valentine and that is of course the valentines day history
• It was also known as a day of mating for the birds
• Women used to stand the window and the first man that you saw on the window became the spouse
• In 1415 the Duke of Orleans sent a valentine gift for her wife
• The number of valentine day cards bought each year is one billion
• Chinese valentines day is not celebrated on the 14th and is known as Qi Qiao Jie,
• It is celebrated on the seventh evening of the seventh month of the Chinese Lunar Calendar
• The most common rose is red but other ones that are popular are Tulip, Lily and Carnations
• Guess who receive the most cards and it is the teachers who get valentine cards from the cute and innocent students
• Who buys more flowers on Valentines day – It is the men who buy all 73% of all the flowers sold
• Red Rose is the flower of goddess Venus who is also the goddess of love.

• Taj Mahal is the biggest monument ever built by a person (in this case Shah Jahan) for his beloved wife.
• Most common of valentines day gifts is the heart shaped boxes filled with chocolates and candies
• King Henry VIII declared the February 14th as the festival and declared February 14th as the holiday.
• Number of rose stems produced is more than 175 million
• The airport which receives the maximum number of flowers being imported into America is the Miami International Airport.

Guess the number of cards exchanged on Valentines day – 191 million !

Wow these hopefully were some facts that will be helpful to you in understanding how the valentine’s day came into being and to the extent that it is celebrated across the world.

In fact using this you can make some good Valentines day trivia questions also for a good valentines day quiz.

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As a parent the toughest part is to explain the meaning of Valentine’s Day to the kids. They need to know about love, romance as well as the most important person St. Valentine

There are some tips which you need to be careful about if your are telling them about valentines day history as well as about the romantic love.

1. Tell them about various relationships and love. These relationships should include the relationships not only between husband and wife but also all other relationships like brother, sister, aunt etc and also something about special friends.
2. Tell them about how St. Valentine was put to death because he was opposed to the Emperor Claudius in a certain way. You can choose to describe this story via picture or even some crafts for valentine’s day.
3. Tell the kids about the meaning of flowers and how in earlier times when there was no e-cards or computers or even paper how the world used to communicate and how then each color and each symbol came to signify something.
4. Red became the color of blood and also of being together and that means love.
5. Explain to them why this day is important to express your feelings for someone and you can include that to person you like including your brother,sister. as well as teachers and parents.
6. There are so many things like valentines day printable, coloring pages as well as other poems and quizzes available which can be used to teach the kids about valentines day.

Use the opportunity to let the creativity of the kids flow and you can actually make sure that kids can create some gifts especially some handmade ones to learn about what gifts is all about.

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