You may or may not know this, but there is actually a holiday of some sort every day of the year. We like to look up the holiday for the day as a part of our homeschool activity. This has made for some wonderful lessons in history, geography, science, etc.
Here are a few random holidays we celebrated in April:
April 16th: Patriot’s Day – Some people know little or nothing about Patriot’s Day. To New Englander’s, it is a big, big day. In the states in New England, it’s a holiday with a day off of work. Banks, schools, post offices, and businesses have the day off. Patriot’s Day commemorates the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. This battle began the American Revolutionary War. It also honors the “Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”, that evening when Paul Revere rode through town warning the colonists that “The Red Coats are coming!”
To honor this day, we watched the History channel series, ‘America The Story of Us – Rebels & Revolution’.
April 20th: Look Alike Day – Today’s a day to find someone you really look up to, and try to look like them. Start with the hair. Cut and style your hair, as needed, to look like the person you’ve selected to look like. Then, select items from your wardrobe (or buy some new clothes!) that your lookalike wears. Along the way, make sure to practice and copy their walk, their talk, and their facial expressions. In other words. try to be as identical to that person as possible.
To honor this day, the boys decided to be each other. They wore each others clothes, and swapped guitars. 🙂
April 23rd: World Laboratory Day – World Laboratory Day celebrates the place where great discoveries, inventions, and medical cures are born. Countless ideas, concepts and theories are tested in laboratories. Most of the world’s greatest medical treatments and cures were discovered and perfected in laboratories, after endless study and testing. Products coming out of laboratories have helped and aided mankind in many, many ways.
To honor this day, we read a book on Louis Pasteur, then read an Usborne Book about viruses, fungi, and bacteria. We also looked up pictures of different viruses, etc. as thy appear under a microscope.
April 24th: Pig in a Blanket Day – No explanation needed.
