Community Celebrations for National Child Day
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Community Celebrations
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Looking for ideas to celebrate National Child Day?Get inspired by these celebration activities organized by Canadians over the years
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Make supper for children in your care. It will allow parents free time with their children to read to them and play games. It will also give them a break from cooking for one night. |
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Try something new in your centre. Hold a pajama day or have dinner for breakfast.
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Enjoy the outdoors. Organize a carnival outside with your community with games, activities and walks. |
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Hold an event at your local mall or community centre with fun, free activities like face painting for children.
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Walk, jump and dance with children at a Santa Claus parade. Bring banners and posters to announce National Child Day.
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Invite politicians, the media and schools to join children and their families for a day of activities and handouts at your city hall or municipality with the Mayor. |
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Hold a discussion forum where children and youth can put forward questions that concern them most to local leaders.
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Organize a parade with a name and theme. March proudly across the city holding banners or singing songs that promote National Child Day and the rights of children.
If the weather is bad, march inside. |
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Choose your favourite flower bulbs and plant them with children around your community (temperature permitting). When they bloom in the spring, the flowers will remind everyone in the community of the importance of children and their rights. |
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Gather some local singers, dancers, entertainers and musicians at a communtity centre or a gymnasium. Invite children, families and child care providers to join in the fun. |
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Organize a celebration for children and their families with games, costumes, face painting for children, decorative cookies, plays and other interactive activities.
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During the month leading up to National Child Day, put up posters on walls in community centres, schools and child care centres in your area. Promote children's rights by distributing brochures and information or royal blue ribbons and National Child Day stickers.
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Highlight children's rights and National Child Day by dropping off stickers, ribbons and brochures at government offices and other employers in your area. Encourage them to pass the information around and learn about the history and significance of National Child Day.
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If you are a child care practitioner, ask staff to describe one significant characteristic for each child in your child care centre. Compile the answers and post them on a wall to highlight each child's importance and uniqueness.
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Invite parents to join you for dinner. If you work from home or in a centre, ask parents to come for a breakfast or lunch with the child care staff.
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Organize a playgroup with children, parents and child care providers. Perform songs and activities that highlight the value of each individual child and their own uniqueness.
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Feeling festive? Why not bake a National Child Day cake?
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Write an article or letter to the editor on the importance and history of National Child Day. Send it to local newspapers and media spokespeople in your area.
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Organize a conference to educate Canadians on the importance of National Child Day and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Provide information on the rights of children in Canada and on projects to improve the lives of children and families.
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