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Children's Day Celebration in India |
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Children’s Day is celebrated every year in India on November 14 which marks the birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of the nation. The primary reason behind celebrating Children’s Day on Pandit Nehru’s birthday is the fact that he loved children. He was also the beloved of the kids of his time, who named him ‘Chacha Nehru’.
History of Children’s Day Observance
After the death of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in 1963, his birthday has been celebrated as Children’s Day. People celebrate this day in honor of their great leader who was determined to make India one of the powerful nations of the world.
Children’s Day Celebrations
On this special day, various government offices organize programs and contests for their employees’ children to participate and have fun. Schools plan cultural programs and competitions for kids to take part. Quizzes, costume contests, and elocutions are held to celebrate this day by involving children. In addition, there are story-telling sessions held in schools and events related to singing and dancing that are organized in colleges.
The celebrations on November 14 also include various programs aired by the electronic media. There are non-governmental organizations which plan activities and events for children on this occasion. Even amusement parks, shopping malls, and theaters give special offers for kids on this day.
On Children’s Day, the President of India meets and interacts with several children coming from various regions of the country. These children are allowed to spend some time with the President at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The President tries to boost the morale of the children and inspire them to strive toward becoming better individuals.
Children’s Day Celebration Ideas
Here are some ideas on how you may celebrate this special day with your kids.
Adorable gifts: You can buy toys and story books for your kids to celebrate and enjoy this occasion. Such gifts not only provide fun but also help you harness your child’s thinking power. By gifting books, you’ll actually inculcate the habit of reading in your child. Chocolate gifts can also be offered to kids on Children’s Day.
Picnics or educational trips: Take your kids out for a picnic or an educational trip to a museum or a science center. Museums and science centers can actually provide fun and at the same time help in educating your child about things he should know.
A picnic at an exciting location or a day out at an amusement park will provide your child with fun and frolic and help refresh his mind from the daily stress he may be going through.
Visit a theater: Take your kids out for a children’s movie and make this occasion a memorable one for them. Alternatively, you can play a movie or two at your home itself and spend quality time with your kids to make them loved and treasured.
Social activities: While you enjoy Children’s Day with your kids, you may want to do something special for children who’re underprivileged and disabled. You can actually visit an orphanage and offer gifts to the kids there. Encourage your children to decorate and wrap the gifts, and let them hand over the presents to the orphans. In this way, you’ll be able to make your kids understand that they should help the poor and needy when they grow up. Also, you’ll be able to bring smiles to several other kids and make this day a memorable one for them, too.
Children’s Day Party
Planning a party for kids is one of the popular Children’s Day celebration ideas. Given below are the party themes you may choose from.
Sugar and spice party: Your kids are sure to appreciate such a wonderful theme for their party. As for the party invitations, you can use candies covered by decorative wrappers which will have the invitation wording printed on them. This will help you attract other kids to your party.
As for the food, you can arrange for cupcakes, sundaes, cinnamon rolls, spiced cider, and other items. To make the party an exciting one, let there be games like chocolates and candies treasure hunt and contests like decorating the cupcake and getting dressed up in fancy costumes.
The party favors you can gift to your guests include decorative bags full of candies, sweet treats, cookies, and flavored popcorn. For kids, you can arrange for activity bags including coloring books, crayons, stickers, and craft supplies.
Beach party: One of the interesting Children’s Day celebration ideas is to organize a beach party. You may choose invitations having the images of a sea and its beach. Colorful invitations will let your guests know that the beach party is indeed going to be fun and exciting.
An interesting idea is to write down the invitation wording on an inflated beach ball. Then you should deflate the ball and send your invitation in an envelope. Your guests, especially kids will have great fun blowing up the beach ball to check out the invitation. You can mention the beach party dress code in your invites so that your guests know what to wear for the occasion.
The food menu for your beach party may include light snacks like burgers, chips, and popcorn. Fruit salads, fruit juices made of orange and apple, lemon or strawberry squashes, and ice creams will make your party fun and exciting, especially for the kids. There can be games like volleyball. Building houses out of sand can make an interesting activity for kids, and even parents can join in to encourage them.
The party favors you may choose should be based on what kids like. Beach balls, sunglasses for kids and adults, and squirt guns are some of the gifts that can be offered to beach party guests. These items can be included in a decorative cellophane bag. The bag should be tied with chenille sticks before you present the party favor to your guests.
Magic themed party: Kids enjoy magic, so you can plan a magic themed party for kids on Children’s Day. Look for a magician who can entertain the kids with his special powers. To invite your guests to your party, you may choose invitations shaped like hats, animal figures, and things that kids appreciate. A handcrafted magic wand attached to an ecard can also make a great invitation for such a party.
A magic themed party can have finger foods, chips, and popcorn kept in upside-down top hats wrapped with paper towels. Cookies shaped like animal figures, pancakes, and fruit punch can also be offered to your guests. Serve a colorless soda like lemon-lime soda and encourage your guests to choose their ice cubes. Just make sure you arrange for ice cubes which will magically change the color of the drink when placed into it.
For a magic themed party, you may choose party favors like handmade wizard wands embellished with beads, jewels, and glitters. Wizard hats decorated with colorful ribbons or laces can make an adorable gift for kids. Alternatively, you may choose treat bags filled with gummy worms, fishes, frogs, and bugs as party favors.
Decorations for the Party
While you plan a kids’ party for Children’s Day celebration, look for items that’ll help you decorate the venue in an exciting way. Balloon bouquets, crepe papers, and streamers serve as useful decorative items for any kind of party you may organize. Markers, crayons, and pictures cut from magazines can help you adorn the venue and give it an elegant look. As for the centerpiece, you may choose teddy bears, cowboy hats, and Barbie dolls adorned with colorful ribbons.
Colorful banners can be used as greeting signs for Children’s Day party. In case you’ve chosen a Hawaii theme or a beach theme, your banner may read “Aloha” which means “Hello” or “Welcome”. Use orange, yellow, and pink colors to adorn the banner.
Children’s Day Crafts
Encourage your kids to participate in crafts and let them have fun and frolic on Children’s Day. Below, you’ll find ideas for two such exciting crafts.
Mask:
Things required:
- Light cardboard pieces (paper plates or breakfast cereal boxes)
- Glue
- Non-toxic paints, markers, crayons, and colored pencils
- Scissors
- Sticky tape or stapler
- Thin elastic or string
- Glitters and feathers
Instructions:
- Take a cardboard piece of the size that fits your kid’s face.
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- Encourage your kids to draw the mask on the cardboard.
- Let them draw the eyes and nose.
- Help your kids cut out the eyes and nose from the cardboard.
- Let the mask have holes on each side.
- Fix an elastic or string to each of the holes.
- Let your kids paint the mask using their creativity.
- Help them adorn the mask with feathers and glitters, once the paint dries.
Pom-pom Ice Cream Cone:
Things required:
- 1/2 sheet of brown construction paper
- White or pink pom-pom
- Colorful beads (small in size)
- White craft glue
- Scissors
Instructions:
- Roll over brown construction paper into a cone
- Glue the cone and wait till it has set properly.
- Apply glue around the rim of the cone.
- Place a pom-pom on the glue and press it. Make sure the pom-pom gets down slightly into the cone.
- Let the glue dry.
- Dip the multi-colored beads on white glue so that you can decorate the pom-pom with them.
This is how your kids can create a glittering pom-pom ice cream cone.
Amid the fun, parties, and excitement on Children’s Day, let’s not forget the message spread by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. He always wanted kids to get educated, prosper, and help their nation grow. So, it is important to provide children with a loving and caring environment and help them follow by the standards set by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
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