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We realize Valentine's Day is a romantic holiday aimed at adults (although we suspect your kids will be happy to help you polish off all of those chocolates). But if you'd like to celebrate with your children too, there are lots of ways to share the love this holiday.

We've rounded up 14 Valentine's Day events for New York City kids. Most skew young and are pretty sweet deals. A few are even free. So get ready to sing, dance and get creative with your little loves in honor of Valentine's Day 2012.

So far during our month-long focus on Park Slope, we've shared the best places for kids to play, both indoors and outside, our top toy stores and 50 things to do with kids in the area. Today we're spotlighting our favorite places for kids to take classes in this super-family-friendly neighborhood.

Whatever your child is into—arts, crafts, dance, theater, music, sports, nature, yoga, even origami—there's a spot in Park Slope teaching it. Since schedules and prices constantly change, please visit the official websites for the most up-to-date information. Here are our top 11 spots for kids' classes in Park Slope (because we couldn't limit ourselves to just ten).

Last fall, we started highlighting one neighborhood a month on Mommy Poppins. We began with Chinatown in October, and in November we explored the Upper West Side. After skipping December (which was all about the holidays), we continue our neighborhood spotlight series this month with Park Slope.

As we've posted in the past, Park Slope is overflowing with family fun. I lived in the area in my twenties with my chocolate Labrador, and now that I'm a mom in a nearby Brooklyn neighborhood, I visit frequently with my daughter. While Prospect Park West or the tree and brownstone-lined side streets are so peaceful to walk down, Fifth and Seventh Avenues buzz with energy and wonderful businesses. The Slope feels like a true community: Local shopkeepers know their regulars by name, neighbors sit and chat on their front stoops, and parents share info and swap baby items on the massive parent board, Park Slope Parents. Of course you can't walk down a block without running into a stroller or two (or three or four).

While we know many local parents find even more great things to do across Prospect Park or hitting nearby neighborhoods like Prospect Heights, Crown Heights and Gowanus, for the purposes of our posts, we're using Prospect Park West to Fourth Avenue, Flatbush Avenue to 15th Street as our boundaries for the Slope. We have lots of posts about the Slope coming up that will go more in depth on specific topics, but here are our top 50 things to do with kids in Park Slope, from culture to eating, shopping to playing.