Wednesday Wisdom

Each Wednesday I will post a helpful hint, creative idea, or fun tip that might be useful! I encourage you all to add your own too. :) Here is this week's Wednesday Wisdom.

At the Regional Celebration this past week in Phoenix (I wish you all were there because it was fabulous!) there was a class about themes and there was a great list of Unofficial Holidays that you can use to make workshops or gatherings for fun! For example, May 15 is National Chocolate Chip Day. Wouldn't it be fun to have a workshop where you each Chocolate Chip Cookies, use Chocolate ink and Chocolate cardstock in all of your projects etc? Or if April 13 is National Scrabble Piece, you could play a game at the party where you hand every guest a scrabble piece as they come and then draw a letter along the way for little prizes and if that's their letter they win! Of course you could show off our alphabet stamp sets on the projects. There are so many fun things you can do with your teams and customers with these wacky unofficial holidays! Here's the list that I have and I'm sure there are more fun themes out there. I'd love to hear what anyone has done with fun themes like these!

Little Known Unofficial Holidays

January 4 Trivia Day
January 8 English Toffee Day
January 20 Penguin Awareness Day
January 21 National Hugging Day
January 28 Kazoo Day
February 6 Wear Red Day
February 9 Clean Out Your Computer Day
February 10 Umbrella Day
February 15 Gumdrop Day
February 16 Do a Grouch a Favor Day
February 24 Tortilla Chip Day
March 2 Old Stuff Day
March 6 Dentist’s Day
March 12 Plant a Flower Day
March 26 Make Your Own Holiday day
April 2 Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
April 12 Licorice Day
April 13 Scrabble Day
April 24 National DNA Day
April 26 Hug an Australian Day
April 30 Hairstyle Appreciation Day
May 5 Hoagie Day
May 6 No-Diet Day
May 8 No Socks Day
May 11 Eat-What-You-Want Day
May 12 National Nutty Fudge Day
May 13 Leprachaun Day
May 15 National Chocolate Chip Day
May 20 Pick Some Strawberries Day
June 4 Hug Your Cat Day
June 6 Yo-Yo Day
June 7 Chocolate Ice Cream Day, Accordion Lover’s Day
June 17 Each Your Vegetables Day
June 24 Swim a Lap Day
June 26 Take Your Dog to Work Day
July 7 Strawberry Sundae Day
July 17 Pecan Pie Day
July 31 Mutts’ Day
August 2 National Mustard Day
August 3 Watermelon Day
August 10 S’Mores Day
August 12 Middle Child’s Day
August 13 Left-Handers’ Day
August 19 National Aviation Day
August 22 Daffodil Day
Sept 5 Cheese Pizza Day
Sept 16 Collect Rocks Day
Sept 18 Cheeseburger Day
Sept 19 Talk Like a Pirate Day
Sept 24 Cherries Jubilee Day
Sept 26 Hug a Vegetarian Day
October 5 Do Something Nice Day
October 10 Angel Food Cake Day
October 12 Egg Day
October 16 Dictionary Day
October 25 Make a Difference Day
October 30 Candy Corn Day
Nov 3 Sandwich Day
Nov 6 Marooned without a compass Day
Nov 7 Tongue Twister Day
Nov 8 Dunce Day
Nov 23 Cashew Day
Nov 27 Dental Floss Day
Dec 4 Wear Brown Shoes Day
Dec 7 Cotton Candy Day
Dec 13 Ice Cream & Violins Day
Dec 26 Candy Cane Day
Dec 28 Card-Playing Day