What Days Do You Celebrate in Your Daycare?

[permanentvacation]

I am working on making some changes to my curriculum and wanted to add days to celebrate, but I don't know of the non-traditional days.

I know the regular holidays such as Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day, and of course the daycare children's birthdays, etc. But the ones I don't know are things like Dr. Seuss' birthday. That's the only non-traditional holiday I can think of. Oh, and there's the 100th day of school.

Are there other days that you celebrate in your daycare?

[permanentvacation]

After I posted my initial post, I Googled non-traditional days to celebrate and found this website; https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/2016/02/

I put it on here just in case you guys want to check it out.

But I am still interested in hearing what days you guys celebrate in your daycares.

[MunchkinWrangler]

Earth day, Arbor day, Groundhog day, Mayday, April fools day, there's a couple more(administrative assistant day(jk). I have to look but I was going to add these days and do some fun crafts that are related and teach about the holidays.

[Controlled Chaos]

I use holidays as spring boards for curriculum building. So we don't always "celebrate" in a cake and streamers kind of way, but do things like we do activities with shadows on Groundhog day - like flashlight games, learn how shadows are made. We also talk about hibernation since that's the groundhog was doing before being yanked out of his home and talk about the word prediction. The children make their own prediction - we make a graph of predictions on the chalk board and then watch the youtube clip from that morning. Then we compare their predictions and what happened. We usually continue the flashlight play and reading books about hibernation "the bear snores on" etc.

[permanentvacation]

I didn't mean 'celebrate' as in party. I meant more along the lines of acknowledge/teach about/do activities with your daycare kids.

[permanentvacation]

Thank you guys for the ideas. Does anyone else incorporate any other special days into their daycare curriculum?

I looked over some of the days from the website I found and posted in my above post. Some of them sound cute to teach the kids and do an activity with the kids about.

[Unregistered]

Kwanzaa, seven beautiful principles.

[Play Care]

Friday. We celebrate Friday.

[Blackcat31]

Friday. We celebrate Friday.

[permanentvacation]

"Friday. We celebrate Friday." ~ Play Care

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I agree, Fridays are a good days to celebrate!

[laundrymom]

We have a more sporadic, child led curriculum. We celebrate holidays/special days rarely.
We embrace every activity in a fly by the seat of our pants, open ended materials based process art kind of smorgasbord of fun.
Like today. The fun was tossing ice into the air and watching it shatter. Then tossing those pieces. And repeating until we couldn't get it to break.
I have old shallow cookie pans I leave out in winter to make the ice sheets.
Yesterday we tested the strength of different sized magnets, blew cotton balls across the floor w straws, and built a blanket fort.

[MunchkinWrangler]

Friday. We celebrate Friday.

Every week!!! happyface

[kendallina]

Halloween (we do a pajama party)

Christmas

Valentine's Day

Easter (we have a hibernation celebration for this day, but it does include an easter egg hunt)

Some years we do:
Chinese New Year
Fourth of July

And yes, we don't necessarily celebrate as in have a party. We do a V-day party with families (an evening potluck and sing along). And for Halloween and our Hibernation Celebration we do "Pajama Parties" on those days, but we keep our same routine, just have special snack and we do a few special games on those days. For Christmas, we don't have a party at all, but we make presents for family members, bake homemade sugar cookies, etc. the week before Christmas.

[MrsSteinel'sHouse]

Friday. We celebrate Friday.

Yay!!! and on fridays if the weather cooperates we spend the last hour and a half outside!!! oh who am I kidding we try to do that every day if we can so I don't have a mess when pick up is over!

June 26th is National Mud Day!!

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/ awesome ones on here- next Tuesday I guess we need to make banana bread!! Wait Monday is National Margarita day!!! I think we should all be taking that one off as a paid holiday!!

Next Friday "Tell a Fairy Tale Day" might have to do that!

[Laurel]

I didn't think of it until my last year of doing childcare but I wish I would have done May Day. I think the tradition was leaving a construction paper cone of flowers on someone's front door...or they could take it home. Some cute ideas on Pinterest. Also a May Pole would be cool. I actually did that once as an adult with other adults/children and it was very cool when the ribbons wrapped around the pole. Also we made and wore flower crowns.