Declare Your Own Holiday!

The fun thing about having your own family is that you can make your own rules and holidays!  So why not declare an Orange Day on June 23. Everyone must wear orange and incorporate orange food into the meals.  Create crafts and cards around the theme for the day or week.

 To start, have your family sit down with a calendar and large piece of paper for brainstorming. List the animals, people, events they would like to honor in the next year.  Choose the dates to write on the calendar.  

Your children will be creative, but if you need a start here are a few ideas:

Pet Day:

In our house it is a cat, and all day the cat gets special treatment a new toy and a new place mat made by the children.  If you have time at your home you could make cat puppets out of paper bags, make a card for your pet and a frame with a picture of the family with the pet.

Favorite Number Day:

Make pancakes in the shapes of numbers, Count items like rocks or shells, Count and glue buttons or cotton balls on paper to make a design with the favorite number, Give the chosen number of compliments during the day, Look through magazines for the number and cut out, exercise time (Use the favorite number for the amount of exercise, how many jumping jacks, the number of minutes to run etc.)

Picnic Week:

Have a picnic everyday, even inside the house!

The possibilities are endless and the memories will last forever.  This can also be implemented in the classroom, a fun way for the children to feel ownership in their own classroom.