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Day (ideas for games, crafts, snacks...) - Perpetual
Preschool
Fun
With Franklin (experiments for celebrating
Benjamin Franklin's birthday) - The Electric
Franklin
Independence Day / Fourth
Of July
Election
Cake (for Election
Day) - Catholic Culture (Also see the frosting recipe.)
Flag
Day (displaying the flag in a parade, at an unveiling,
at half-staff...) - HomeOfHeroes.com
Grandparents
Day Vase - Very Best Kids
Kwanzaa
Labor Day
Mardi Gras
Memorial Day
National
Hispanic Heritage Month (recipes: chorizo &
potatoes with eggs, tacos & rice, Mexican rice...)
- Global
Network News
Old
Glory Project (Flag Day craft) - Ben Franklin
Stores
Super Bowl
Sunday / Football Parties
Thanksgiving
Throw
a Thoroughbred Kentucky Derby Party (mint julep,
run for the roses pie, Kentucky hot brown...) - All
Recipes
ARBOR
DAY
Arbor
Day (craft ideas) - Perpetual Preschool
Arbor
Day Crafts - EnchantedLearning.com
How
To Celebrate Arbor Day - The National Arbor
Day Foundation
Let's
Plant A Tree (tree siting,
identifying incorrectly sited trees, planting sapling...)
- Kids For Trees
ELVIS DAY
Elvis'
Favorite Dishes (ham bone dumplings,
peanut butter & banana sandwich, baked apple & sweet
potato
pudding) - Net Glimse
Elvis'
Favorite Peanut Butter Sandwich - Robi Haferkamp
Happy
Birthday Elvis Salad
- Alt.Country Cooking
Elvis
Presley Favorites (peanut
butter & banana sandwich, ham bone dumplings, apple
& sweet
potato pudding) - About.com
Appetizers, Party Foods, and Beverages ("Stuck on You" Burnt-Bacon, Jungle Room Party Sandwiches, "Let's Have a Party" Rye Bread Snacks, "Burning Love" Watermelon Salsa...) - Graceland's Table: Recipes and Meal Memories Fit for the King of Rock & Roll
JUNETEENTH
Celebrate
Juneteenth (table decorations, grilling tips)
- Essence
Cooking
For Juneteenth (red lemonade, sweet potato pie,
cornbread...) - The Museum School
Juneteenth:
Emancipation Day (diabetic recipes: sweet potato biscuits,
fried green tomatoes, jelly cake...) - Cinnamon Hearts
Juneteenth
Sweet Potato Pie - Kansas City, Kansas Public Library
Juneteenth:
The Taste of Freedom (gingerbread recipe) - NPR
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
Abe Lincoln's Log Cabin (made from snacks) - Very
Best Kids
Lincoln
Hat Craft - EnchantedLearning.com
Lincoln
Penny Pendant - EnchantedLearning.com
Lincoln (Recipes:
Abe Lincoln election cake, Lincoln & Douglas cake,
Mary Todd Lincoln's vanilla-almond cake...) - Food
Down Under
MARTIN LUTHER KING
JR. DAY
A
Box Of Crayons (diversity
activity/craft) - KinderArt
Award
A Peace Prize - Very Best Kids
Create
A Project - Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther
King Day Of Service
Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Activities for English
Language Learners (activity/crafts: black & white
collage, role models & heros, milk carton buses...)
- The Holiday Zone
Five
Ways to Celebrate Dr. King's Birthday with Kids
(multicultural banquet, skin tone
decorations, walking for a cause...) - Familyeducation.com
Freedom
Bell - The Idea Box
How
To Serve - MLK Day Of Service
"I
have a dream" Craft - The Idea Box
"I have a dream" Book - Very Best Kids
MLK
Day (Activities, crafts, snacks) - The Perpetual
Preschool
Project
Tips (Adobe Acrobat document) - MLK Day Of
Service
PRESIDENTS'
DAY
Activities
and Crafts for Presidents Day (Tree of Presidents,
patriotic pebble, little log cabin...) - EnchantedLearning.com
Hand-Spun Holidays: President's Day (lesson plan: activities, cooking, reading, math...) - Life Is Not A Cereal
Honoring Our Presidents (presidential pins, Abe Lincoln's stovepipe hat) - Very Best Kids
Presidential Recipes (Jimmy Carter's peanut butter pie, Rachel Jackson's burnt custard, Ronald Reagan's rancho California rice, Frances Cleveland's white cake...) - Cheddar Bay
President's
Day (recipes, activities) - Alphabet Soup
President's
Day (stuffed acorn squash, spoon bread, maple pork
chops...) - WhatToCook.com
TALK LIKE A PIRATE
DAY
How
To Talk Like A Pirate - FamilyFun
How To Talk Like A Pirate (for adults, video) - Loading.Ready.Run
How To Talk Like A Pirate - The Official British Headquarters
For International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Make A Jack Sparrow Costume - Knowledge Hound
PirateWords (also see 'Phrases' on left menu) - Talk Like
A Pirate Day
Why Talk Like A Pirate, And How (for adults only!) - The Original Talk Like A Pirate Day Site
VETERAN'S
DAY
How To
Participate (Help collect & preserve stories of wartime
experiences.) - Veterans
History Project
Make
A Difference On Veteran's Day - Knowledge Hound
Veteran's
Day Crafts, Projects, and Printouts - KinderCraft
WASHINGTON'S
BIRTHDAY
Celebrating
George Washington (lesson
plan ideas) - About.com
George
Washington Birthday Bread - Fleischmann's
Yeast
Mount Vernon Celebrates Martha Washington’s 274th Birthday (Martha's cake recipe) - Mount Vernon
Remember George Washington's Birthday With Delicious, Cancer-Fighting Cherries (cherry pie, cherry crisp, Marilyn's cherry rice, cherry salsa) - American Institute for Cancer Research
Washington's
Birthday (cherry soup, baked corn & vegetables,
deep plum pie...) - WhatToCook.com
Washington's
Birthday (diabetic Washington's cherry pie,
George Washington's rich custard, Martha Washington's
plum pudding...) - Food
Down Under
