April Holidays to Celebrate

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” – William Shakespeare

Don’t you just love that quote? April is associated with springtime, new beginnings, and growth. The lengthening daylight, the warmer temperatures, and the dozens of fun holidays to celebrate excite me! How does No Housework Day sound to you? Are you into Shakespeare? Planning a trip to the zoo? I’m loving the list of April holidays to celebrate, literally from A to Z. No kidding, we’re beginning with April Fool’s Day and ending with Zipper Day!

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Note that while I won’t be providing an idea for every day or each birthday for the month, I will give you a variety of ideas that compliment several of the days to celebrate. Choose several or just one each week! Be sure to download the free planning page for April halfway down my homepage! Cue the confetti, here we go!

April Holidays – Week 1

• 4/1 April Fool’s Day – It’s always a day of lighthearted fun at our house. I have mismatched and tied shoes together, rubbed Vaseline on faucets, taped or drawn a spider on the toilet paper, and many other harmless shenanigans.
• 4/2 International Children’s Book Day – That’s everyday for me! Check out my other website, TheseBooksAreFantastic and Facebook page for books, books, and more books!
• 4/3 Find A Rainbow Day
• 4/3 World Party Day – Surprise your family, and have a party for no reason! Put up streamers, blow up balloons, plan a game or two, and prepare a few finger foods. Voila!
• 4/5 National Dandelion Day

April Holidays – Week 2

• 4/7 – No Housework Day – yes, please!
• 4/8 – Zoo Lover’s Day – Make the most of your next zoo day with a scavenger hunt (there’s even one for older kids!
• 4/10 – National Farm Animals Day
• 4/11 – National Pet Day
• 4/12 – Big Wind Day – try a windy unit study!

April Holidays Week 3

• 4/13 – National Scrabble Day – Scrabble was invented in 1938, during the Great Depression by an unemployed New York architect named Alfred Butts, who figured Americans could use a bit of distraction during the bleak economic times. If you’re looking for a fast-paced version of Scrabble that everyone can play at once, check out Scrabble Slam. It would be terrific for brain breaks as well as spelling practice!
• 4/14 – National Gardening Day
• 4/14 – Look Up at the Sky Day – If you’re looking for a top-notch astronomy course, I can’t say enough good things about Journey Homeschool Academy! Their courses are so engaging and captivating!
• 4/15 – World Art Day – My absolute favorite multi-use/multi-age resources are from Paper Pie (formally Usborne Books & More). The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas, and Famous Painting Cards have been a fantastic resource in our homeschool for years!
• 4/16 – Stress Awareness Day – Another win from PaperPie are from their Mindful Kids series. No Worries focuses on helping children work out how and why they feel worried, and offers loads of encouragement and ways to feel calmer.
• 4/18 – National Haiku Poetry Day
• 4/19 – National Columnist Day – One of the most interesting and useful high school writing courses we have used is Byline. Byline turns students into time-traveling reporters who practice journalism in forgotten history.

April Holidays Week 4

• 4/21 – Kindergarten Day
• 4/22 – Earth Day – great ideas for your homeschool at Homeschool Compass!
• 4/22 – Jelly Bean Day – tasty engineering at its finest! Find the instructions for Easter themed geometric shapes and towers here.
• 4/23 – Talk Like Shakespeare Day – William Shakespeare is credited with the invention or introduction of over 1,700 words that are still used in English today! Check out some of these familiar sayings we owe to the Bard!
• 4/23 – National Picnic Day
• 4/25 – National DNA Day – The Homschool Scientist has several fun experiments and activities to learn more about genetics.
• 4/26 – Richter Scale Day

April Holidays – Week 5

• 4/27 – Morse Code Day
• 4/27 – Tell a Story Day – Being a great storyteller is such a great quality to have throughout life. My dad was one of the greatest! Practice that skill when they’re young with story cubes, story cards, story dominoes, games, The Storymatic (for older kids) – oh, there’s also one for younger kids too. Finger puppets are also terrific for developing story tellers!
• 4/28 – International Astronomy Day – In case you breezed past Look at the Sky Day idea a couple of paragraphs up, this is a top-notch astronomy course and worth the double-mention. I can’t say enough good things about Journey Homeschool Academy! Their courses are so engaging and captivating!
• 4/28 – National Superhero Day – This looks like a fantastic Good Guys Superhero character lesson, complete with instructions to make a cape!
• 4/28 – Great Poetry Reading Day
• 4/29 – Zipper Day – Take a look at the history of the zipper with this short video!

April Birthdays

Birthdays are special and worth celebrating, even when it’s for someone who lived long ago. This month, we’ve got quite a variety of interesting people! Writers and poets, builders and sculptors, and flyers – oh my! I love the Who Was series, and the Lives Of series to learn more about a notable person, and of course the local library! So, who will you be learning more about? The sculptor of the Statue of Liberty? One of the first flyers? Perhaps spend a warm spring afternoon bird watching and drawing like James Audubon. Or, spend a rainy afternoon with Ole Kirk Christiansen’s popular brick invention, or a game of Scrabble with your family!

One final thought: I can’t just leave you with just this list of things to celebrate, without mentioning the celebration in my life: The fact that He Is Risen!  If you are unsure of what that is, read 1 Corinthians 15:1-4,  and simply believe it. That’s it.