Celebration and Traditions Through the Year
January
- New Year’s Day
- Snow Days (snow cake, snow ice cream, snow stories and songs, snow arts and crafts)
- Sledding
- Building snowmen and throwing snowballs
- Ice Skating
- Snow Walks (looking for animal tracks)
- Animals in Winter
February
- Candlemas Day (candle making, evening by candelight)
- Cupid’s Tea Party (Valentine making)
- Valentine’s Day Breakfast
- Valentine's Day Celebration of Love
- Valentine's Day Family Dinner
- Abraham Lincoln's Birthday with a Lincoln's Log Dessert
- George Washington's Birthday with Cherry Pie
- Teddy Bear Picnic
March
- Maple Sugaring Off Party
- St. Patrick’s Day Treasure Hunt
- Rainbows
- Rain and Puddle Jump Play
- Clouds
- First Day of Spring
- Make Fairy Homes and a Fairy Ring
April
- Bunny Tea Party and Bunny Bread
- Good Friday and Hot Cross Buns
- Decorating Easter Eggs
- Easter Egg Hunt
- Easter
- Traditional Egg Roll
- Eggs, Nests, and Birds
- Seeds and Gardening
- Planning the Children's Garden
- Planting Our Gardens (vegetables, fruit, and flowers)
- Keeping a Garden Journal
- May Day (Create May Day Flower Crowns, Dance Around the May Pole, Craft and Deliver May Baskets)
- Strawberry Picking and Strawberry Home Festival
- Caterpillars and Butterflies
- Bugs
- Making Homemade Lemonade
June
- Make Homemade Ice Cream with Friends for an Ice Cream Social
- Summer Sun Celebration (Summer Solstice)
- Fairies and Midsummer’s Night (the night the fairies come out to dance)
- Swimming
- Fishing
- Ponds, Ducks, Turtles, and Frogs
- A Trip to the Beach
July
- 4th of July Parade
- Old Fashioned Independence Day Celebration
- Dinosaurs
- Rocks and Minerals (Go Rock Collecting)
August
- Bees and Honey
- Flowers
- Trees
- Preserving the Summer (Hold a Canning Party)
September
- First Day of School
- Hummingbirds (Attend the Humingbird Festival)
- Apple Picking and Apple Festival
- First Day of Fall
- Michaelmas (Bravery, Knights, and Dragons)
October
- Night Animals (Owls, Bats) (Go Owling, Explore Caves for Bats)
- Spiders
- Pumpkin Picking and Pumpkin Festival
- Costume Planning Party
- Pumpkin Carving Party
- All Hallows Eve’ Home Frolic
- Halloween Trick-or-Treating
November
- Ladybugs
- Leaves (Leaf Hunt, Leaf Picnic)
- Nutting Party (Squirrels and Nuts)
- Martinmas Lantern Walk
- Harvest Home
- The First Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving
December
- St. Nicholas Day (Santa Day)
- St. Lucia Day
- Reindeer Day
- Gingerbread House Making Party
- Advent Spiral Walk with evergreen boughs and apple candles
- Nativity Play (angel, shepherd, friendly beasts, Mary, Joseph, 3 kings)
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas
- New Year’s Eve
Friday Night Family Night
- Fire Pit with marshmallows and s'mores or campfire cookout
- Homemade pizzas and make-your-own ice cream sundaes
Sunday Dinner
- Cook and serve a big family dinner every Sunday