💌 September 26 – Love Note Day: Scribble Some Sappy, Silly, or Seriously Sweet Sentiments 💘
Break out the glitter pens and stationery, folks—September 26 is Love Note Day, and yes, it’s officially your cue to get all gooey and poetic. Whether you’re professing undying love to your soulmate, leaving a cheeky sticky note on your roommate’s bathroom mirror, or writing a dramatic haiku to your cat—today is all about putting affection into actual words. On paper. With your hands. Like it’s 1996 and texting doesn’t exist. ✍️❤️
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🧐 A Little History (Because Love Has Layers)
While Love Note Day isn’t tied to one specific origin story (a mysterious love child of Valentine’s Day and National Handwriting Day, perhaps?), it’s one of those charming, unofficial holidays that seems to have emerged from a collective desire to bring back the romance of written words.
In a world of “u up?” and heart emojis, Love Note Day is here to remind us that there’s real magic in taking the time to write something personal, heartfelt, and just maybe a little ridiculous.
💖 Sweet, Silly & Swoon-Worthy Facts About Love Notes:
The oldest surviving love poem is from ancient Sumer, written around 2030 BC. That’s some serious commitment to the bit.
In the Victorian era, people used “vinegar valentines” to send shady messages to people they didn’t like. So… love notes, but for enemies. 😂
Napoleon Bonaparte once wrote his wife Josephine, “I do not love you, I shall not love you, I shall not live without you.” Dramatic much?
A survey found that people who receive love notes regularly report higher relationship satisfaction. Science approves of your mushy side. 🧠❤️
✨10+ Quirky Ways to Celebrate Love Note Day
Write a surprise love note and tuck it somewhere unexpected—wallets, lunch bags, coat pockets, fridge magnets… like a scavenger hunt for feelings. 🕵️♀️💌
Channel your inner Shakespeare and pen a ridiculously over-the-top sonnet for your crush or partner. Bonus points for excessive metaphors. 🎭🌹
Send anonymous love notes to strangers—drop one in a library book, tape one to a lamppost, or leave one on a café table. Mysterious and magical. ✨
Craft a note to your past or future self. Romanticize your journey. Or apologize to high school you for those eyebrow choices.
Write a love letter to something weird you adore—your favorite mug, your air fryer, the weird niche subreddit you check daily. Go on, profess. 🥺
Create a love note station at home or work with cute cards, washi tape, pens, and stickers. Make it a “Leave one, take one” setup. 💕
Write 5 mini love notes and mail them to friends you haven’t talked to in a while. Surprise reconnections? Yes please. 💫
Make it a game: Set a timer for 10 minutes and challenge yourself to write as many tiny love notes as possible. Quantity over perfection!
Use sidewalk chalk to write love messages in your neighborhood. Spread the cheesy gospel far and wide. 🧀💒
Frame a love note and hang it in your space. Whether it’s one you wrote, received, or just admire, let it live rent-free on your wall. 🖼️
Host a Love Note Writing Party—hot chocolate, vintage stamps, heart-shaped cookies, dramatic readings optional but encouraged. ☕📬
📝 Love Note Dinner Theme — “Sealed With a Dish” 💌
Tonight’s dinner theme? Romance in every bite. We’re going soft-focus, candle-lit, handwritten-note-core. Think cozy elegance, blush tones, and recipes that say “I adore you” without needing a single word.
💕 Main Dish: Creamy Tomato Rosé Tortellini
Pasta shaped like little love letters? Yes please.
Ingredients:
1 package (about 10–12 oz) cheese tortellini (fresh or frozen)
1 tbsp olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (optional, for a little spark)
1/2 cup tomato paste
1/2 cup heavy cream (or coconut cream for dairy-free)
1/4 cup dry rosé wine (or veggie broth if skipping alcohol)
Salt + pepper to taste
Grated Parmesan & fresh basil to finish
Instructions:
Cook tortellini according to package directions. Drain and set aside.
In a skillet, heat olive oil. Sauté garlic and pepper flakes until fragrant.
Stir in tomato paste, cook 1–2 minutes. Add wine and let simmer for 2 more.
Stir in cream and whisk until silky and pink. Season with salt & pepper.
Add tortellini and toss gently to coat. Finish with cheese and basil.
Serve in a heart-shaped bowl if you dare. Write “Made with love” in Parmesan.
💌 Side: Hearts & Greens Salad
A crisp, sweet side that pairs like poetry.
Ingredients:
Mixed greens (spinach, arugula, baby kale)
Thinly sliced strawberries or pear
Crumbled goat cheese or gorgonzola
Candied pecans or walnuts
Heart-shaped croutons (cut from toast with a mini cookie cutter)
Simple balsamic-honey vinaigrette
Toss everything gently and serve with a pressed flower or a short handwritten love quote tucked under the bowl.
🍓 Dessert: Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries with Pink Sea Salt
Literally the most love-notey dessert possible.
Melt good dark chocolate.
Dip fresh strawberries, lay on parchment, sprinkle with pink salt or rose petals.
Chill until set. Serve in a vintage teacup or on a love letter you never sent. Drama.
🍸 Drink: Rosé Lemon Fizz (Mocktail or Cocktail)
Light, fizzy, romantic.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup rosé or sparkling grape juice
1/2 cup lemon sparkling water
Splash of elderflower syrup or simple syrup
Garnish: lemon twist + mint sprig
Serve in a coupe glass. Clink glasses and say something cheesy like “To love notes and leftovers.”
🌹 Vibe Enhancers:
Write a quick love note and fold it into a napkin.
Light a few candles. Turn on a vinyl record or soft jazz.
Dress a little extra, even if it’s just for your cat.
Optional: Read a poem aloud. Bonus points if it’s original.
🍎 ELEMENTARY IDEA: "Pocketful of Positivity: Love Notes for Our Learning Family"
🎯 Goal:
Students practice writing kind, specific notes of appreciation to classmates to build community and confidence.
🪄 You’ll Need:
Pre-cut slips of paper in fun colors (or let students cut their own!)
Markers, crayons, colored pencils
One small envelope or mini paper pocket per student (decorate ahead or let kids design them!)
Chart paper or board space with sentence starters for inspiration
Optional: string + clothespins or tape to create a “Kindness Clothesline” display ✨
📝 Directions:
Intro (5-10 min):
Read a short book or passage about kindness (suggestion: "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?" by Carol McCloud or "Be Kind" by Pat Zietlow Miller).
Introduce the idea of “love notes” as kindness cards—short, sweet messages that let someone know they are seen and appreciated. 📬
Model It (5 min):
Write a sample note to your class:
“Dear Room 12, I love how we help each other and work hard every day. You make me smile!”
Guided Writing (15-20 min):
Provide sentence starters:
I love how you…
You make our class better because…
Thank you for always…
Each student writes 2-3 love notes to classmates. Encourage them to be specific!
Delivery Time! (5-10 min):
Students “deliver” notes to classmates’ envelopes or pockets (hung on a wall, taped to desks, or worn like name tags for a special delivery moment).
Optionally, host a mini “read aloud” where a few brave students share one note they received.
Wrap-Up Reflection (5 min):
Ask: “How did it feel to give and receive love notes today?” 💖
🌈 Bonus Twist:
Create a “Kindness Clothesline” where students can anonymously clip up extra notes of appreciation throughout the week!
🎓 SECONDARY IDEA: "The Unsappy Love Note Project" 🖤✍️
🎯 Goal:
Students explore the power of written affirmation through a creative, non-romantic love note project celebrating friendships, family, self-love, or admired figures.
🪄 You’ll Need:
Paper, pens, and optional stationery
Optional: printed examples of famous letters (e.g., MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail", Maya Angelou’s letters to her daughter)
Slideshow or anchor chart with creative prompt categories
Optional: Envelopes or mini “mailboxes” if you want to display or deliver the notes
📝 Directions:
Hook (5-10 min):
Ask: “What’s a kind of love that has nothing to do with dating?” (Friendship, family, teachers, pets, books, even snacks!)
Introduce Love Note Day as a celebration of all the different non-romantic ways we show appreciation.
Mini-Model + Discussion (10 min):
Share excerpts from unique, meaningful letters—real or fictional—that express appreciation (fun idea: read a “love letter” to hot fries or a favorite hoodie).
Emphasize tone: heartfelt, quirky, personal—but not mushy unless they choose that route!
Choose Your Prompt (15-20 min):
Let students select their own quirky note topic from a list:A love note to…
your best friend from 3rd grade
the person who always waves in the hallway
your pet
your future self
your favorite book character
your mom’s spaghetti 🍝
Write + Decorate (15-25 min):
Students write their “love note” in letter form or poetic prose. Encourage creativity!
Optional: decorate and drop them in a shared display or “classroom post office.”
Optional Sharing (5-10 min):
Host a mini "Love Note Open Mic" or have students pin notes on a wall titled: “Things Worth Loving”
🌈 Bonus Twist:
Let students submit anonymous notes to a “Kindness Kompiler” (you!) to be read aloud throughout the week. Start class with a note a day! 💫
💌 Quirky in the Workplace
A.K.A. “Because nothing says 'team spirit' like anonymous emotional vulnerability on printer paper.”
Love Note Day is traditionally about expressing affection—but we’re at work, so we’re repackaging it as “Appreciation Notes with Questionable Boundaries and Glitter Pens.” It's not romance. It’s radical coworker kindness, mildly chaotic energy, and a thin veil of plausible deniability.
✏️ “Secret (Platonic) Admirer Station”
Set up a drop box in the breakroom labeled:
🩷 Love Note Day: Tell Them They’re Great But Like...Weirdly 🩷
Supply the area with:
Sticky notes
Ridiculous pens (think: pom-poms, unicorns, feathers, mysterious ooze)
Pre-written prompts like:
“I admire your commitment to passive-aggressive email tone.”
“You bring the best snacks and vibes.”
“If I had to be trapped in the elevator with someone, it’d be you. Probably.”
“You once helped unjam the printer. I’d follow you into battle.”
“Your calendar color coding haunts me—in a good way.”
Everyone writes anonymous (or not) appreciation notes and sticks them on coworkers’ desks, monitors, mugs, or the vending machine shrine.
Optional but encouraged:
Include absurd made-up “gifts” like a coupon for one (1) dramatic sigh of solidarity or free backup during awkward client calls.
Tagline for the day:
💘 “Love Note Day: Because every workplace could use a little more admiration—and a lot more glitter.”
🎬 Movie Suggestion - The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
This is a romantic drama in which a modern-day journalist uncovers a trove of love letters from 1965 and becomes absorbed in solving the mystery of a secret affair, while also being drawn into her own romance.
It’s perfect for Love Note Day, because written letters are at the core of its plot: the power of what’s written can stretch across decades.
📺 TV Episode Suggestion - “Love Letters” (episode of The Danny Thomas Show, 1961)
In this episode, Kathy’s old love letters become plot points when Linda, playing mail carrier, mistakenly handles them.
It’s a short, sweet example of how a love note can stir trouble, memory, and emotion in everyday life.
So go ahead—unleash your inner romantic, poet, or pure goofball. Whether it’s heartfelt or hilariously absurd, a love note is a gift that keeps on giving. And unlike a text, it can’t be screenshotted out of context. 📱💀
📸 Hashtag It, Baby:
#LoveNoteDay #WrittenWithLove #SnailMailFeels #QuirkyRomantic #PenToPaperLove #CelebrateQuirky
