This year for Children’s Day, as well as recognising your own little cherub, why not spread the love to other children in your community? In the process you’ll be sharing an important message with your child about the value of all children and the spirit of giving.
Along with a few fun things to do at home, I’ve included some fun ways to involve your child in celebrating Children’s Day in your community.
13 more ways to celebrate Children’s Day
1: Free community events. Also check out the official Facebook page for more events.
2: Organise a neighbourhood picnic with your children and get to know other families in your community. You could do a letterbox drop or create a Facebook event, and meet in your local park. This brings back that sense of community and enables your children to make friends in their own neighbourhood. Community support is important and it embraces the concept of ‘it takes a village to raise a child’.
3: Involve your children in donating some of their good quality toys to a community group such as the Salvation Army or Women’s Refuge. Let them choose some toys and buy a new one or two if you can afford it, and go with them to donate. This instills the values of caring for other children and giving to others.
4: Sell some homemade baking and donate the profits to a children’s charity such as KidsCan or your local children’s hospital. Involve your child in baking the goods, choosing the charity and giving the donation.
5: Make some cards for your children to give to their friends at playgroup or school using their own artwork or handprints.
6: Plant a tree for your baby and watch it grow with your child. It will be their own special tree.
7: Start a family tradition of taking a photo of your child every Children’s Day, starting with this year and then every year after. Add the photo to the wall each year to celebrate change and growth.
8: Have a family BBQ for all the young children in the family. Turn it into an awards night with special certificates for all the children. Each one would be unique depending on their own strengths and what makes them your little treasure.
9: Have a family movie night with your own home movies, perhaps of your child’s past birthdays or Christmas, and enjoy the memories together.
10: What is more important than keeping our little treasures safe; not only on Children’s Day but through the year. To keep your little treasure safe, enrol in a first aid course, make up a survival kit and check all your smoke alarms. Practise a fire drill together.
11: Write a letter to your child about what makes them your special treasure, and date it and keep it in a treasure box for them. Each year you could add a photo, memento or new letter. What an amazing gift this will be when they are older!
12: Give each child in the family their own special time. One on one time with each child helps them to feel special. Take just one child on an outing with you. It doesn’t need to cost money, it could be a walk around the duck pond followed by an ice cream or an afternoon at the beach.
13: Let your child be the little Prince or Princess for the day. Make a crown together and let them lead the day with their choice of breakfast, outing, activity and dinner.
Our little treasures are not little for long, enjoy them. How do you plan to celebrate Children’s Day?
For more ideas, check out our Children’s Day article and 10 top ideas to celebrate Children’s Day.
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