Labor Day Family Fun Safety Tips
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Are you and your family off to the beach or pool this Labor Day weekend? Find that great water proof beach bag with lots of pockets or get a new one. You can even make your own as a family craft activity using plastic trash bag, duct tape and cord. Once you have the bag, you will need to research the beach, pool and surrounding areas.
Once safety research is completed, you will need to go over safety tips with your child. The beach and the pool are can be excellent place to build those special moments with your family. It will take some preplanning. Most of all, you will want to make certain that your loved ones are safe.
Veterans Day Honors Those Who Serve
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Veterans Day Holiday History
Formerly Armistice Day, Veterans day is a holiday observed annually in the United States in honor of all those, living and dead, who served with the U.S. armed forces in wartime.
Some states observe the holiday on November 11 and other on the fourth Monday in October. Armistice Day, the forerunner of Veterans Day, was proclaimed in 1919 to commemorate the termination (at 11 am on November 11, 1918) of World War I. On the first anniversary of the truce, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation eulogizing fallen Allied soldiers and referring to November 11 as Armistice Day. It became a holiday in the U.S., France, Great Britain and Canada.
The holiday acquired its present name and broadened significance in the U.S. in 1954. In Canada it is known as Remembrance Day, and in Great Britain, as Remembrance Sunday.
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Kid Friendly New Year's Activities
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World Clock
Have your children at the stroke of midnight find out what time it is in other cities around the world. Some city suggestions are: Wellington, Sydney, Bangkok, Tokyo, Beijing, New Delhi, Israel, Moscow, Rio Janeiro, Anchorage, Honolulu, Samoa, Seattle, Dallas, Denver, Mexico City, Nairobi, Kinshasa, Berlin, Rome, Hong Kong, etc.
2008 Calendar
Have kids make their own calendar for the new year.
New Year's Poetry
Have the kids write a New Year's poem with each line starting off with the letters in New Year's. For example, the first line would start with a N, the second line would start with a E, etc.
Father's Day Gifts Activities For Kids and Family
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Father's Day 2013 is Sunday, June 16th. Making a gift for dad, can be fun and is guaranteed to be be highly valued. Here's how you can make a car tag for special Dads and Granddads.
Gift To Make: Father's Day Car Tag
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The History of New Years
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The celebration of the new year on January 1st is
a relatively new phenomenon. The earliest recording of a new year celebration is believed to have been in Mesopotamia, c. 2000 B.C. and was celebrated around the time of the vernal equinox, in mid-March. A variety of other dates tied to the seasons were also used by various ancient cultures. The Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Persians began their new year with the fall equinox, and the Greeks celebrated it on the winter solstice.
The early Roman Calendar designated March 1 as the new year. The calendar had just ten months, beginning with March. That the new year once began with the month of March is still reflected in some of the names of the months.
September through December, our ninth through twelfth months, were originally positioned as the seventh through tenth months (septem is Latin for “seven,†octo is “eight,†novem is “nine,†and decem is “tenâ€).