Showing posts with label April. Show all posts
Showing posts with label April. Show all posts
Showing posts with label April. Show all posts
Showing posts with label April. Show all posts

Free Printable Monthly Calendar with Holidays 2017

Printable Special Days Monthly Calendar for 2017

These free printable monthly calendar (s) with holidays and special days are updated every month. Check back for the latest version. Once you have the link, you can save a copy, and edit it to add your own special days or birthdays. Enjoy!

Free Printable Monthly Calendar with Holidays 2017
Free Printable Monthly Calendar with Holidays 2017.

Blank Free Printable Monthly Calendar (Save a copy to edit.)


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Plan Ahead Mom's 18 Month Planner

2016 Calendar Planner, Monthly, Blue Cover, 8.5 x 11 Inches 



5 Earth Day Activities for Adults

5 Adult Activities for Earth Day

Looking for something to do around the office to celebrate Earth Day? These 5 Earth Day activities for adults will help you have a fun and enriching celebration. When is Earth Day? Earth Day is April 22.

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  • In the Fall of every year, Indianapolis, Indiana has a day of community service. Indy Do Day is a mini vacation from the office. We think incorporating something like this into an Earth Day celebration would make an awesome experience. Get the whole office on board. Plant a community garden or better yet, make it personal. Find local senior citizens in need, and do some yard work, gardening, or recycling for them. Find a way to give back to your community that will have an impact on the environment.


Earth Day Activities for Adults
Indy Do Day activities are perfect for Earth Day. Photo from Indydoday.com
  • Another, simple way for adult co-workers to celebrate Earth Day is to go on hike! Sure, you'll get some complaints. Plan ahead, and make it a field trip of sorts. Make sure everyone comes prepared with water, comfortable shoes, sunscreen, bug spray, and bags to collect any trash you find along your journey. 
Everyone needs the fresh air. It is a great way to bond with your office mates. You'll feel like you are playing hooky, but use the time to brainstorm ideas to make the office more green.

simple way for adults to celebrate Earth Day
A hike is a simple way for adults to celebrate Earth Day.

  • Have you ever been to a recycling plant? We have. It is a very interesting experience. Most people are surprised to discover all of the different things that can be recycled. Find an incentive (maybe a gift card) and then ask your co-workers to bring in some recyclable items- not trash! Think real recyclables like an old, broken, bronze lamp, metal scrap, old appliances... Collect all the aluminum cans from the office and take them with you (rather than letting the recycling truck pick them up as usual).

Now, take a caravan to your local recycling plant! We go on Saturdays and have to wait in a long line. They pay with a receipt that you cash out at an ATM like machine. After you go, you'll understand why so many people offer free pick up of old appliances. You might even want to become a dumpster diver.


The cash for junk is pretty impressive, especially when you think about it being trash that you saved from going into a landfill!


Get Cash for recycling metal.
Get cash for metal at Ray's Recycling plant.

What about that gift card? Award it to the co-worker whose junk brought the most coin! What? You think they don't deserve it because they already got a big payoff? Use the money you earn from recycling to donate to a save the earth cause.




  • Get a group of adults involved in Earth Day activities by volunteering in a preschool, shelter, or nursing home. Find some fun Earth Day crafts like the ones below, and take the day off while you educate and enrich the lives of others. 

Help children grow an indoor garden.

Make an Earth Day Pin Craft.


Whatever you choose to do, have fun, and make a difference!


Recommended:

Christmas Games for the Office Party

Ways for Kids to Celebrate Earth Day

Visit a Nature Park

When Rivers Burned: The Earth Day Story 

Earth Day - Go Green Adult Organic T-Shirt

April Calendar of Special Days and Holidays for Curriculum Planning

2017 April Holidays and Special Days are the Best for Planning your Classroom or Homeschool Curriculum

April, 2017! It's Spring in the states. We look forward to Spring Activities outdoors and bringing flowers indoors. Easter generally occurs in April, but sometimes March. When is Easter? The first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox. Say what? Easter is tricky, it can occur March 22 - April 25. Check here for dates.

We've found some fun, unique, April Holidays that will keep your curriculum exciting and new. Enjoy!


2017 Calendar of April Holidays and Special Days.
2017 Calendar of April Holidays and Special Days.


2017 April Holidays and Special Days Printable Calendar



1 April Fool’s Day Play
Play April Fool's Jokes for Kids on your Family!
Make a Fake Cake to fool your friend for a birthday party.
8 Draw a Picture of a Bird Day

9 Name Yourself Day
Choose the name you always wanted and tell all of your friends to refer to you as your favorite name. Just call me Yoda.

11 National Cheese Fondue Day
What can you dip in Cheese? Do you have a special recipe for fondue? We'd love for you to leave a link in the comments.
12 National Grilled Cheese Day
Grilled Cheese Day? Make some Grilled Cheese for the Kids or maybe Grilled Peanut Butter and Jelly.

14 Look Up at the Sky Day
A Day where you go outside and look up at the sky and enjoy it.

15 Rubber Eraser Day
Rubber Eraser Day? Do you have a cool eraser? I remember having a teddy bear eraser in all the colors of the rainbow.

16 Day of the Mushroom
Celebrate Mushrooms! Make a mushroom craft in honor of Alice in Wonderland, yeah, a Toadstool is a mushroom.
Easter Sunday (March 25 - April 22)
Christians believe this is the day Jesus rose from the dead. Everyone else can enjoy the pagan celebration with the Easter Bunny, Coloring Eggs and Decorating Eggs, and having an Easter egg hunt! How to make an Easter basket from a milk jug.
22 National Jelly Bean Day
Looking for things to do with Jelly Beans? Hop around our blog, we've got lots of edible art.

24 National Pig in Blanket Day
Hotdogs in croissants, sausage in a pancake? Celebrate with a cute pig craft for kids! Make a clay pig.

27 National Pretzel Day
Hooray! It is National Pretzel Day! We've got lots of way to learn how to make pretzels at home. Heart Pretzels are fun to make. Things to do with pretzels.


Recommended Reading:

Peanut Butter And Jellyfishes Book for Kids

Books for April Fool's Day

















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April Showers? Color an Umbrella Craft for Kids

April showers! Spring Umbrella Craft for Kids

Finally, after all the April snows, Mayhem was able to color her
ALEX® Toys - Craft Color A Yumbrella.
 It took Spring forever to... er sprung- and patient she ain't. Anywho...

Color an  Umbrella craft from Alex Toys Super Cute!
Coloring an umbrella with permanent markers.
This cute umbrella craft comes with permanent markers. We used some of our own Sharpies too. She colored one triangle, got tired, and took a break for a week. Now, she can color whenever she gets bored. The craft that keeps on giving! 

You know, she'll be modeling this with her latest rubber galoshes. What am I saying? It's Mayhem, she'll probably wear ballet flats when she goes skipping in the rain.



Kids Creative Chaos Blog Crafts for Kids: Alex Toys
Mayhem colors a lollipop on her Yumbrella.


Cute Umbrella Craft for Spring Birthday Party for Kids
The Umbrella is decorated with cute, yummy sweets.



Recommended Reading:


Let It Rain*

Monster Paper Bag Puppets

Activities for Circle Time






8 Fun and Easy Unique Plastic Easter Egg Crafts including Nesting Birds

Love Easter Crafts for Kids? How about Recycling those Plastic Eggs.

Me too! We've got a cute Easter basket in the hopper, but for now check out these 8 easy and unique plastic egg crafts from around the net. Enjoy!



8 Fun and Easy Unique Plastic Easter Egg Crafts including Nesting Birds
8 Fun and Easy Unique Plastic Easter Egg Crafts including Nesting Birds.

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Tweet! Tweet! Aren't these little Easter Chicks sweet? With buttons and cottonballs this cheery garland is perfect for a spring celebration. Kids can help make the chicks and stringing the buttons is perfect for fine motor skills. How about that basket of berries. So cute! Just grab a Sharpie and some felt. Easy Egg Decorating Kit


Plastic Animal Easter Garland (Parents.com)



Chick Plastic Easter Egg Garland DY decorations for party celebration
Photo by Doug Merriam for Parents.com Plastic egg garland.


8 Fun and Easy Unique Plastic Easter Egg Crafts
Photo by Ed Judice for Parent.com Plastic Egg Strawberries.

Look closely, and you'll see tiny beads embedded on these plastic eggs with a glue gun. This gives me an idea. I'll be glue gunning eggs later this week!


Glue Gun Sparkly Beaded Eggs (Perfect is Boring)




glue gun Easter Crafts eggs
Glue gun beaded Easter egg craft by Perfectisboring.com

Easter Egg Spiders (Craft, Interrupted)



Easter Spiders? Decorate Plastic Eggs for Halloween and fill with candy
Wouldn't these little guys be fun filled with candy? 
Unique egg decorations.


Baby Birds in Nest (Busy Bee Kids Crafts)



Blue Baby Birds in Nest Paper Craft.
This Easter egg decorating is perfect for preschoolers: 
Blue Baby Birds in Nest Paper Craft.


Easy Easter Bunny (Reader's Digest)




Easy Egg decorating cute bunny
Do up a plastic Easter egg like a cute bunny
Simple. Easy. Adorable.


Plastic Carrot Egg (A Bird in the Hand Art)





Make a plastic egg into a carrot craft decorate ideas
A Bird in the Hand blog hits a home-run with this easy plastic Easter egg carrot craft.


Perry the Platypus Plastic Easter Egg Craft 
from Saturday Disney TV



Perry the Platypus Craft for Easter
You know we love Perry!


More Perry Crafts


Recommended Reading:

Things to do with Plastic Eggs

Easter Peeps Dirt Pudding Cups

Egg Story for Kids*

Get Moving with these Easter Egg Games

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