In 2018, it will be 68 years since people around the world began to celebrate Children's Day. Officially, this day symbolizes the support of a small generation. Festivals and friendly rallies are held annually around the world to save children, stop abortions, help women in difficult financial situations, help orphans, and eliminate domestic violence and tyranny.
As a rule, Children's Day is celebrated quite simply - families walk with children in parks, ride rides, eat cotton candy and watch a movie. But there is another alternative way to celebrate an international holiday - to arrange a small performance and a competition by gathering several children with their parents at home or in a rented hall.
Room decoration
International Children's Day has its own flag - a painted planet, and around it are 5 little men who literally lead a round dance. If you use this idea, you can decorate the room where the performance will be held, with similar garlands. To do this, just take sheets of paper of different colors, fold them with an "accordion", draw simple people, and then cut them with scissors. Such garlands are prepared according to the principle of New Year's snowflakes.
Other design methods
- Make a collage of photos of your children. This is especially interesting when the event is held in a kindergarten or school. Ask your parents in advance to bring 1-2 photographs, the most fun and funny ones can be, but only so that the children do not know about this venture. Imagine how they will be surprised when they go into the room and see a huge picture of the whole group on the wall.
- Make a walk of fame, where for every child a star will be prepared on the floor. If you hold such an event with your family, you can make a plaster print by arranging such an entertaining competition. Everything is very simple, before the children begin to walk along the walk of fame, you need to put a bowl of gypsum solution in front of each name. Toddlers should put their palms until a footprint is printed. At the end of the event, bowls are given to each child as a gift.
- Set the buffet. There is nothing nicer than the opportunity to quickly and tasty snack at the event. Treat Children's Day with respect by giving up alcohol on the table. Replace unhealthy foods with berries, fruits, homemade cookies, and cakes.
Greeting
So, you have decorated the room and now you want to prepare for the event. The scenario "Children's Day" will help you with this, which contains contests, an entertainment program, and possible prizes.
The holiday begins with a greeting from the host. He must inform guests what awaits them on Children's Day. If the event is held in the family circle, then the greeting can be made as follows:
- The host expects the guests to sit in their seats. The assistant then turns on light background music. The host at this time greets the guests, and then announces that the time has come to get acquainted with the main heroes of the occasion. Under loud applause, children come on stage (one after another), showing their elegant costumes, sending kisses and greetings to their families.
- The leader takes turns approaching the participants and asks for their name. Then, turning to all those present, he asks the question: “June 1 is Children's Day. What do you know about this holiday?” All children, including their parents, answer the question, tell some interesting facts.
Leave a mark on the ages
According to the scenario, the Children's Day does not begin with a competition, but with a small entertainment program. The host hangs a white whatman on the wall and announces that the triumph cannot exist without a coat of arms. After these words, each child receives paints, brushes, pencils, crayons and water.
- Task: within 20 minutes it is necessary to draw the coat of arms of the international holiday. For this, children can use any improvised means that they will find on a special table, in which you can add glue, sparkles, and beautiful colored paper. They can draw with their fingers, leave handprints on canvas, make inscriptions, sprinkle with glitter, cut flowers and fireworks to stick on whatman paper.
- Advantages: while children are busy, adults can drink tea, eat, prepare for other competitions. In 20 minutes, all those present will have time to make friends with each other. This is especially true for young children who are often embarrassed by new faces and cannot fully have fun in an unfamiliar company.
Acquaintance with personal life
Holding Children's Day is an interesting activity. Adults should understand that this celebration is entirely aimed at small children, so you need to be patient, show interest and pay all the attention to young guests.
The host announces a new program called Share Your Life. A few days before the celebration, each child receives a box in which he must put 10 of his favorite items. This can be a part from Lego, and soft toys, and drawings, and even household items. Throughout the day, children will periodically go on stage and tell guests what the things they bring mean to them. Perhaps with one or another subject they have preserved pleasant memories or emotions. This will bring joy and warmth to parents, make it clear that young people also have their own feelings and feelings. On a day like this, it’s really good practice.
Unique outfit
Give young guests the opportunity to prove themselves by arranging a competition for the best outfit. For this, the children need to be divided into several teams (it all depends on the total number of participants). Then each team receives a box of items in a chaotic manner. Together, children must choose the necessary things to create an unusual dress, costume or decor.
What can I put in a box? Anything! Pieces of fabric, scotch tape, toilet paper, ribbons, beads, plain paper, plastic bags, plastic bottles. It would seem, how can one make a beautiful outfit from such a strange set of objects? But children are not deprived of imagination. They see a mummy in toilet paper, and scotch tape allows them to fasten crumpled sheets of paper into huge beads.
Stars of the day
Children should feel their importance in this world, therefore parents will take part in this competition. Its essence is that the leader announces the search for the star of the day. Parents, united, must choose one child, reward him with a crown and a prize.
Of course, this competition will not deprive anyone, but the children will think that someone will be the winner. This is actually tricky entertainment. In the 20 minutes that the leader set, parents will make crowns and jewelry - each for their own child. When the bell rings, all adults at the same time stand up, go up to the children and put on them the symbol of the star of the day. And the host at this time will only dilute the situation, saying that, it turns out, every child on this holiday is worthy of his crown, because there are no good or bad, better or worse children.
Congratulation
"Happy Children's Day!" - such words are rarely uttered. Despite the fact that this holiday is almost 70 years old, many parents are not even aware of its existence. But how to effectively congratulate small people? List of original ideas:
- Treat your child his favorite meal. Each parent knows what his baby prefers in food. Perhaps these are pancakes with cottage cheese, waffle cake, fried eggs. Just cook a delicious dish in the morning, avoiding all conventions and rules. Even if it is a dessert that is not usually served for breakfast.
- Make a symbolic gift. Maybe your child has long dreamed of a toy or a bicycle that you promised to give for the New Year? Or your child with tears in his eyes passes a guinea pig or fish in a pet store. Children's Day is a great occasion to make children happy.
- Have a fun walk. Around the world, the holiday is celebrated on June 1, that is, on a warm summer day. Take a ride on roller skates, rent bicycles for a few hours, go on a picnic with the whole family, take a day off at work and go and eat cotton candy.
Pinata
This contest came to us from faraway Mexico. Pinata are papier-mâché, which is usually decorated with thin corrugated paper. A toy is made in the form of animals, usually in the form of a donkey or a horse. Inside the papier-mâché is hollow - this is necessary so that sweets can be placed there.
The essence of this competition is that children are blindfolded in turn and given a stick. They should try to break the papier-mâché the first time so that sweets fall out. If the first child fails, then the relay is passed to the next. In order not to offend anyone, you can make several figures.
Children's Day is a significant holiday around the world. Every day, millions of young people are faced with violence, insult, humiliation, tyranny, which must be prevented by all means. And it is on this day that there is an opportunity to show how important it is for us to a new young generation, not injured or offended, but happy and joyful. Organize charity, help children left without parents, support children who courageously struggle with serious illnesses - this is the essence of this holiday.