APRIL IS -
Autism Awareness Month
International Guitar Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National Frog Month
National Humor Month
National Garden Month
National Mathematics Education Month
National Poetry Month
National Stress Awareness Month
Records and Information Management Month
Lawn and Garden Month
Administrative Professional’s Week – April 18-24
April 1 – April Fool’s Day
One Cent Day
April 2 – International Children’s Book Day
National Peanut Butter and
Jelly Day
April 3 – Find a Rainbow Day
April 4 – Easter
First Home Phone Installed in 1877
April5 – National Read a Road Map Day
April 6 – North Pole Discovered in 1898
April 7 – No Housework Day
World Health Day
April 9 – First Public Library Opens in 1833
Winston Churchill Day
April 10 – Encourage a Young Writer Day
National Sibling Day
Golfer’s Day
April 11 – Jackie Robinson Day – Became the first African
American to play Major
League Baseball
April 12 – Space shuttle Columbia first launched, 1981
April 13 – Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, 1743
Scrabble Day
April 14 – Titanic struck the iceberg.
April 15 – First McDonald’s Opens in Des Plaines, Illinois
1955
Income Tax Day
April 16 – National Eggs Benedict Day
Slavery
Abolished by Abraham Lincoln in 1862
April 17 – Daffy Duck’s Birthday
April 18 – Paul Revere’s Day - In 1775 Paul Revere made his famous ride to alert
everyone that
the British were coming.
April 19 – Humorous Day
Patriot’s Day
April 20 – National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day
April 21 - Administrative Professional’s Day
April 22 - Earth Day
Take Our Children to Work Day
National Jelly Bean Day
April 23 – Home Run Day
William
Shakespeare’s Birthday, 1564
National
Zucchini Bread Day
Take a
Chance Day
April 24 –
Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
April 25 – Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand (article
about it in Things To Know)
April 26 – National Pretzel Day
April 27 – Tell a Story Day
April 28 – Poetry Reading Day
April 30 – National Honesty Day, George Washington
inaugurated as first President
in 1789
Arbor Day
Taken from:
http://familycrafts.about.com/library/spdays/blaprdayslong.htm
http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/april.htm
Passover | Sundown, March 30 – Sundown, April 5
Read Exodus
1- 16 as a family or to yourself during this week. See how God
delivered the Israelites from the Egyptians. Discover when the first
Passover took place and why. The first Passover was a type of the
crucifixion of Jesus. Just as the spotless lamb’s blood was shed to keep
the plague from killing the firstborn Israelites, so Jesus’ blood was
shed for us and delivers us from eternal damnation/death. During this
time, Passover Seder’s are celebrated in synagogues and in some
Christian churches. The Seder meal is very significant and filled with
symbolism concerning the Lord. If you would like to attend a Passover
Seder, check your local area for the one nearest you on the internet.
To
get more information go to:
www.biblestudy.org
www.wf-f.org
www.christianseder.com
Since it
is National Mathematics Education Month,
have a math party. Decorate with numbers and math signs. Have math contests
like you did when you were in school. Make numbers out of food. For example,
arrange brownies, fruit or vegetables in the shape of a number.
April
10 is National Sibling Day. Have your children pick a name of one of their siblings and have
them do special things for the one they picked. You could do special things for
your own siblings.
April
13 have a Scrabble-a-thon. Invite
people over to play Scrabble. Have a few boards depending on how many attend.
Keep track of scores for each game. The person with the highest score will get
a prize.
April
15 take your children to McDonald’s in commemoration of its opening in 1955.
April
16 is National Eggs Benedict Day. Make Eggs Benedict for whatever meal you choose. We have a few
different recipes in our recipe section.
April 19 is Humorous Day. Leave jokes around the house in
places your family can see. Put them in their lunch. Tell each other jokes.
Laugh with each other.
April 22 take your children to
work, if your
boss allows.
April 23 make zucchini bread and
give it away or take it to work. See recipe in recipe section.
April 26 make homemade pretzels. See recipe in recipe section.
April 27 is Tell a Story Day. At the dinner table or in a
relaxed atmosphere sit with each other and tell stories. You can make them up,
tell stories you have read or about your life.
It might be good to ask
grandparents or some older people to tell stories from when they were younger.
I hope these ideas are fun and
get your creative juices going concerning things you can do with your family
and others.