April Is Full Of Fun Days To Celebrate With Kids

Don’t let Easter fool you this year, because April Fools Day and Easter share the same day, there are plenty of other days to celebrate this month, including Friday the 13th and Earth Day on the 22nd.

One of the hardest-working and most quiet adults your child is influenced by on a daily basis is the School Librarian. April 4th is the day to show your appreciation by celebrating School Librarian Day. Talk to your kids about the Dewey Decimal System, they may not even know that it’s a catalog system for the library. Then give your School Librarian a dewy smile and a “thank you.”

April 8th is Draw a Picture of a Bird Day! This one is easy … get the crayons and pencils out and start drawing. If your kids need a little inspiration, go for a walk and follow the avian songs, you’ll spot a bird in no time.

To all the parents who spend most of the day playing referee for your kids, maybe April 10th you can get a break from the rivalry: It’s National Siblings Day! Have your kids create cards for each brother or sister and make sure they list at least one thing they like about their siblings. It just might become a tradition they can continue into adulthood.

Parents will be vacuuming up bits and pieces of granola bars stuck in the crevices of our car seats for years after they have been eaten (or dropped) by our kids. So, why not celebrate by dropping (or eating) more on National Granola Day on April 20th?

If you’re ready to unload some of that Easter candy still sitting in the pantry, April 22nd in your day. Celebrate National Jelly Bean Day today by using jelly beans to create art. Grab some glue, paper and those decorative candies and start working. Be sure to warn your kids about the dangers of eating their art supplies and have fun.

Stir your kids’ imagination on Tell a Story Day celebrated April 27th. Today skies the limit, any story can be told, fiction or nonfiction. This is the perfect day to introduce the words “fiction” and “nonfiction,” and explain their meanings to your budding storytellers.

To be totally honest, the last day of April is National Honesty Day. Talk to your kids about the importance of honesty and explain the difference between truth and lies. As parents, we sometimes take for granted that this is something our kids inherently know, but it can be a learning experience for all of us.

St. Patrick’s Day Is Green With Envy Over These March Holidays!

We all know March is the month we celebrate the luck of the Irish, but there is a world of other fun holidays we can have fun with this month with our kids.

Every kids’ favorite author (whether they know his name or not), Dr. Seuss is celebrating a birthday on March 2nd. One way to recognize this day in his honor, is to read Happy Birthday To You! or Happy Birthday To Me! There is also a birthday book for baby too: Happy Birthday, Baby! Reading one or all of these is a great way to start any birthday and can become a tradition your kids can pass down to their kids.

March 8th is Popcorn Lovers Day and the perfect time to get your hands dirty and make popcorn balls. When you Google the recipe, they pop up quicker than heated corns in a pot! Try this vintage recipe, it’s our favorite. Let your little helpers shape the balls, but remember to slather their hands in butter to keep from sticking.

For your little brainiacs in the making, Albert Einstein’s Birthday is a smart choice for March 14th’s celebrations. Use your smart home speaker to ask questions (just like Einstein) about his discoveries and life story. If you want a more authentic Einstein experience, give everyone a hair makeover, really poof it up!

Lucky for us, St. Patrick’s Day is on Saturday the 17th. That means you can start your green activities early that morning with green pancakes (just add a few drops of food color), then follow that up with washable green hair spray to lock in your kids favorite crazy hair for the day.

The 18th of March is First Walk In Space Day, celebrate with an out of this world mobile of our solar system. While you’re building, have your kids talk about the feeling of walking or sleeping in space with no gravity to hold them down to Earth, or where would they go it they could float there?

Get outside with the kids on the first day of Spring on March 20th. Plant a tree or flowers in the yard, take a walk to the park or many cities sponsor trash pickup days, so sign up for that. If enjoying the outdoors isn’t an option, create an indoor garden using construction paper cutouts of your kids hands (the flowers) on popsicle sticks (the stems).

One of our favorite days is celebrated on the last day of the month, Crayola Crayon Day. Today is the day to become a crayon. Make colored hats which mimic the tip of the crayon by rolling colored paper into a cone shape, then name the color yours kids have become. Get creative with the names like Anna Banana for yellow and Sterling Steve for silver.

Want more? There are bonus fun days on the bottom of the calendar, then share the fun, let us know what days you and your kids like to celebrate during the month of March.

Because Balloons Are For Kids

It’s that time of year again to welcome the International Balloon Fiesta back to Albuquerque, when our dogs go crazy to the sound of a fire-breathing dragon outside our windows and we look on in awe of the amazing beauty and fragility of a floating flower. This is one of the benefits of living in The Land of Enchantment and the Albuquerque Public School system in conjunction with the Fiesta, does an excellent job of making sure this event is accessible to our elementary school kids.

Now in it’s twelfth year, Albuquerque Aloft will take place on Friday, October 6th, with balloons inflating around 6:45 a.m. and launching soon after from seventy area elementary schools, if the weather allows.

Thanks APS for sharing a true Albuquerque treasure with ALL our kids.

Make A Diaper Donation

Harvey has been devastating, and when disaster strikes we all feel the need to help. As moms we immediately think about other moms and what they must be going through. Many of the victims of Harvey are those who can’t help themselves, they are the children in the community.

When our babies are young, we’re conditioned to grab the diaper bag no matter where we go, but what happens when what you can carry runs out, where do you turn? Thanks to the Texas Diaper Bank, help is getting to kids who need basic necessities. It’s a critical service because disaster relief organizations generally do not provide diapers.

If you are wanting to help and don’t know how, this is an organization with goals focused on the “diaper gap” through a series of programs that provides access to the most vulnerable.

Let’s help moms and kids get though this disaster.

Word Search Slime (Easy As ABC. Ha.)

We spent last weekend elbows-deep in Elmer’s Glue and food coloring, coming up with our own designer versions of slime. My kids and I had been dreaming up the idea of Scrabble slime, so we made a quick trip to Michael’s (edit: there is no quick trip to Michael’s, is there?) for letter dice and a few other ingredients we thought might work.

Behold.

We got other letters that made purple slime look like alphabet soup:

I think this one’s our favorite—we folded in plastic diamonds so it’s super sparkly!

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