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November Arts & Crafts and Special Days

November Arts & Crafts and Special Days
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Here’s a list of seasonal arts, crafts, activities, ideas and more for the month of November.

NOVEMBER 1

All Saint’s Day
Try this: ► Day of the Dead Calavera Skull Masks

Electric Lightbulb Patented by Thomas Edison in 1879
Try this: ► Light Bulb Decorations

Author’s Day
Try this: ► Find art lessons inspired by books.
Family Literacy Day

NOVEMBER 2

Deviled Egg Day
Try this: ► Egg Decorating Ideas (Easter)

International Space Station opened on this day in 2000
Try this: ► Sculpt a Planet
Try this: ► Make a cosmically cool mobile

Search for Circles Day
Try this: ► Patterns, Patterns, Patterns
Try this: ► Kandinsky Color Studies

NOVEMBER 3

Sandwich Day (the sandwich was invented on this day in 1762)
Try this: ► Sandwich Collage

NOVEMBER 4

King Tut’s Tomb Discovered, 1922
Try this: ► Egyptian Book of the Dead Lesson
Try this: ► Make a mosaic

Candy Day
Try this: ► Make Tissue Paper Candy Corn

Traffic Day
Try this: ► Ten Transportation Activities

NOVEMBER 5

Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes Day)
Try this: ► Make a campfire

NOVEMBER 6

Basketball Day
James Naismith’s birthday, 1861 (the inventor of basketball)
Try this: ► Make a salt dough basketball magnet

Saxaphone Day
Try this: ► Make musical instruments

NOVEMBER 7

Hug a Bear Day

Magazine Day
Try this: ► Make a magazine mosaic
Try this: ► Make a texture magazine montage
Try this: ► Make a media collage

NOVEMBER 8

X-Ray Day (the X-ray was discovered this day in 1895)
Try this: ► X-Ray Painting/Drawing

NOVEMBER 9

Parade Day
Try this: ► Find ideas for parades

NOVEMBER 10

Sesame Street first aired on this day in 1969

Area Code Day

NOVEMBER 11

Remembrance Day (Canada)
Try this: ► Heart Poppy Crafts
Try this: ► Vase with Poppies
Try this: ► Muffin Liner Poppies
Try this: ► Egg Carton Poppies
Veteran’s Day (USA)
See above.

Young Readers Day
(second Tuesday of November)
Try this: ► Newspapers in the Classroom

NOVEMBER 13

Moms and Dads Day
Try this: ► Mother’s Day Crafts
Try this: ► Father’s Day Crafts

Kindness Day

NOVEMBER 14

International Girls Day

NOVEMBER 15

Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
Try this: ► Fruit and Veggie Prints

Artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s Birthday, 1887
Try this: ► Abstract Flowers

America Recycles Day
Try this: ► Make Art Using Recycled Materials

Love to Write Day

NOVEMBER 16

Button Day
Try this: ► Make a Triangle Button Tree

Fall of the Incan Empire, 1532
Try this: ► Mesoamerican Codex Books

NOVEMBER 17

Homemade Bread Day
Try this: ► Bread Dough

NOVEMBER 18

First Teddy Bear’s Birthday, 1902

Antarctica was discovered on this day in 1820
Try This: ► Make a penguin

Mickey Mouse’s Birthday

NOVEMBER 19

President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on this day in 1863

Equal Opportunity Day

NOVEMBER 20

Traffic Light Patented on this day in 1923

Mexican Revolution Day
Try This: ► Mexican Metal Tooling
Try This: ►Yarn Painting

NOVEMBER 21

World Hello Day

NOVEMBER 22

Stop the Violence Day

President John F. Kennedy assassinated on this day in 1963

NOVEMBER 23

Eat Cranberries Day

Aura Awareness Day

Thanksgiving (USA)
(4th Thursday in November)
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a traditional North American holiday, which is a form of harvest festival. The date and whereabouts of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic of modest contention, though the earliest attested Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida. Despite any scholarly research to the contrary, however, the traditional “first Thanksgiving” is venerated as having occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Source: wikipedia

THANKSGIVING CRAFTS
Find great crafts for kids to help celebrate the beginning of the holiday season!

NOVEMBER 24

Unique Talent Day

Black Friday
(Day after US Thanksgiving)

Buy Nothing Day

NOVEMBER 25

Woody Woodpecker’s Birthday

NOVEMBER 26

Cake Day

NOVEMBER 27

Pins and Needles Day

NOVEMBER 28

Make Your Own Head Day
Try this: ► Make clay heads

Red Planet Day
Try this: ► Make a cosmic mobile
Try this: ► Make a planet

NOVEMBER 29

Square Dance Day

NOVEMBER 30

Mark Twain’s Birthday, 1835

CELEBRATE ALL MONTH

NOVEMBER is…

Adoption Month

Aviation Month

Child Safety and Protection Month

Drum Month
Try this: ► Make an African Drum
Try this: ► Make a Coffee Can Drum

Epilepsy Month

Good Nutrition Month
Try this: ► Banana Pops
Try this: ► Fruit Kabob Kreations

Latin American Month

Model Railroad Month

Peanut Butter Lover’s Month

Stamp Collecting Month
Try this: ► Make a stamp box

The First TUESDAY after the first MONDAY of NOVEMBER Is…

Election Day (US)

The 4th THURSDAY of NOVEMBER Is…

Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a traditional North American holiday, which is a form of harvest festival. The date and whereabouts of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic of modest contention, though the earliest attested Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida. Despite any scholarly research to the contrary, however, the traditional “first Thanksgiving” is venerated as having occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Source: wikipedia

THANKSGIVING CRAFTS
Find great crafts for kids to help celebrate the beginning of the holiday season!

The 1ST WEEK of NOVEMBER Is…

American Education Week

Children’s Book Week

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