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 November
Aviation History Month
International Drum Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month (a month for me!)
November 5th-9th is Dear Santa Letter Week
November 14th-20th is American Education Week
November 15th-21st is National Children’s Book Week
November 21st-27th is National Game and Puzzle Week
November 21st-28th is National Bible Week
November 23rd-29th is National Geography Awareness Week
November 23rd-29th is National Leftover Awareness Week
1 New York City Marathon
2 Daniel Boone’s Birthday
2 Election Day
2 National Deviled Egg Day
3 Housewife’s Day
3 Frozen peas were first marketed
3 Sandwich Day, in honor of gambler John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, who ate sandwiches to save time.
5 National Doughnut Day
5 National Gunpowder Day
6 Saxophone Day
6 James Naismith’s Birthday, inventor of the basketball
7 Symbol for the Republican Party (the elephant) first appeared (1874)
8 Edmund Halley, astronomer/mathematician, who discovered Halley’s Comet (born in 1656)
8 Dunce Day
9 Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Day (unveiled in 1984)
9 Lost Sock Memorial Day (are you serious?)
9 Astronomy Day
9 National Young Readers Day
10 Sesame Street had it first episode in 1969
10 U.S. Marine Corps Day (founded in 1775)
10 Forget-Me-Not Day
11 Veterans Day
11 Air Day
11″God Bless America”, written by Irving Berlin, first performed in 1938 by Kate Smith
12 William “Fudge” Heffelfinder became first professional football player (1892)
12 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, champion of women’s rights (born in 1815)
12 National Pizza With the Works Day
13 National Indian Pudding Day
14 Operation Room Nurse Day
14 Nelly Bly ( a fake name used by newspaper reporter Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) started around the world
14 National American Teddy Bear Day
14 Georgia O’Keefe’s Birthday (artist)
15 National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
15 Remembrance Day
16 Button Day
16 Animal Day
16 Love a Tree Day
17 Opening of the Suez Canal (1869)
17 Take a Hike Day
17 Homemade Bread Day
17 National Farm Joke Day
18 Birth of Mickey Mouse (1928)
18 In 1993, South Africa adopted a new constitution; basic rights given to black people.
18 Birthday of the Teddy Bear (1902)
19 Have A Bad Day Day
19 Indira Ghandi Day
20 Astronomer, Edwin Hubble, was born in 1889 (Hubble Space Telescope is named for him)
21 National Stop the Violence Day
21 World Hello Day
21 President John F. Kennedy assassinated (1963)
22 Start of the National Hockey League (1917)
23 National Cashew Day
24 What do you Love about America Day?
24 Scott Joplin’s Birthday (pianist and composer)
25 Andrew Carnegie’s Birthday (businessman) (born in 1835)
25 National Parfait Day
26 Buy Nothing Day
27 Black Friday, heavy shopping day, making a profit
27 Pins and Needles Day
27 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer and inventor (born in 1701)invented the thermometer and Celsius scale
29 Square Dance Day
30 Birth Anniversary of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)(1835-1910)
30 Stay at Home Because You’re Well Day
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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