Imagine the strange and jazzy layouts you can make celebrating some of these wild, wacky and unusual holidays. These have been collected and compiled from various sources over the years of my teaching and we celebrated many of them in the classroom. Celebrate them with your children and family and create fun and wacky layouts!
The Month of December
National Tie Month
December 1st-7th Cookie Cutter Week
December 8th-19th Operation Santa Paws Week
1 Rosa Parks Day (anniversary of Park’s 1955 arrest)
1 National Pie Day
1 Eat a Red Apple Day
2 National Fritters Day
2 First artificial heart transplant (1982)
2 National Roof-Over-Your-Head Day (to focus attention on homeless)
3 International Day of Disabled Persons
4 Wear Brown Shoes Day
5 Mozart’s Birthday (born in 1756)
5 Bathtub Party Day
5 Birth Anniversary of Walt Disney (1901-1967)
6 National Gazpacho Day
6 National Mitten Tree Day
6 Saint Nicolas Feast Day
6 Thomas Edison’s first sound recording
7 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (1941)
7 National Cotton Candy Day
7 Delaware became first state to ratify the Constitution
9 National Pastry Day
10 Nobel Peace Prizes awarded
10 Festival For the Soul of Dead Whales
11 National Noodle Ring Day
11 Day of the Horse
12 National Ding-A-Ling Day
12 Poinsettia Day
13 Ice Cream Day
13 Violins Day
14 Tell Someone They’re Doing a Good Job Day
15 Bill of Rights ratified (1791)
15 National Lemon Cupcake Day
15 National Firefighters Day
15 “Gone With the Wind” premiered (1939)
16 Boston Tea Party (1773)
16 Beethoven’s Birthday (born in 1770)
16 National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
17 Wright Brother’s Day
17 Underdog Day
17 National Maple Syrup Day
18 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery (1865)
19 Oatmeal Muffin Day
20 Games Day
20 Winter Solstice
21 National Flashlight Day
21 National French Fried Shrimp Day
21 National Hamburger Day
23 National Roots Day
24 National Eggnog Day
24 Anniversary of Silent Night (1818)
24 Christmas Eve
25 Christmas Day
25 National Pumpkin Pie Day
26 National Whiners Day
27 National Fruitcake Day
28 Card Playing Day
28 National Chocolate Day
28 Bairn Day (the unluckiest day of the year)
29 Pepper Pot Day
29 National Chocolate Day Again
31 Unlucky Day
31 New Years Eve
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Related Links:
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In January
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In February
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In March
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In April
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In May
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In June
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In July
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In August
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In September
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In October
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In November
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In December