Where do you go for ideas for projects when your creative well has temporarily dried up? You can use monthly celebrations as prompts to help you get back into your creative groove. I love books, particularly children’s books, and find they are a great inspiration for projects, so you will find a celebration of books and authors that can provide creative stimulation and unleash your imagination! Who knows the places you can go?
January Celebrations
January is International Creativity Month
5th Bird Day
10th Umbrella Day; Celebrate Padding Bear on Michael Bond’s birthday; House Plant Day
13th Rubber Duckie Day
16th Appreciate a Dragon Day
18th Celebrate Winnie the Pooh on A.A. Milne’s birthday
19th Edgar Allen Poe Day (his birthday)
21st Mardi Gras
22nd Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day
27th Chocolate Cake Day
29th Puzzle Day
31st Backwards Day
February Celebrations
February is National Cherry Month and National Children’s Author Month
2nd Ground Hog Day; Hedgehog Day; World Ostrich Day
7th Rose Day
8th National Kite Flying Day
9th Read in the Bathtub Day
10th Teddy Bear Day; Celebrate Pioneer Day on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birthday
14th National Inventor’s Day; Valentine’s Day
17th Random Acts of Kindness Day
20th Love Your Pet Day
26th Tell a Fairy Tale Day
27th National Retro Day; Polar Bear Day
March Celebrations
March is National Craft Month
1 Celebrate the First Day of Spring
2nd Dr. Suess Day; Read Across America Day
3rd World Books Day; World Wildlife Day
11th National Johnny Appleseed Day
12th National Plant a Flower Day
14th Learn About Butterflies Day
17th St. Patrick’s Day
19th National Poultry Day
20th First Day of Spring
21st World Poetry Day
24th National Cocktail Day
25th Tolkien Reading Day
28th Respect Your Cat Day
31st National Crayon Day
Easter (celebrated between March 22nd and April 16th)
April Celebrations
April is National Jazz Appreciation Month and Miltary Appreciation Month
2nd Celebrate Mermaids (Hans Christian Anderson’s birthday)
3rd Find a Rainbow Day
9th Unicorn Day
10th National Hug Your Dog Day; National Siblings Day
11th National Farm Animal Day
12th Celebrate Mice Day with The Mouse and the Motor Cycle on Beverly Cleary’s birthday
13th Plant Appreciation Day; Celebrate Horses on Marguerite Henry’s birthday
14th National Gardening Day
15th World Art Day
17th Haiku Poetry Day
19th Bicycle Day
22nd Jelly Bean Day
23rd National Picnic Day
27th Celebrate Baseball and Babe Ruth Day
30th Jazz Day
May Celebrations
1st National Mother Goose Day
4th Intergalactic Star Wars Day (“May the Fourth Be With You”)
5th Cinco de Mayo; Make a Book Day
6th Beverage Day; Nurse’s Day
8th Iris Day
9th Celebrate Peter Pan on J.M. Barrie’s birthday
13th Jumping Frog Day; Tulip Day
Mother’s Day
14th National Train Day
15th Celebrate The Wizard of Oz on Frank L. Baum’s birthday
17th Dinosaur Day
21st World Bee Day
22nd Celebrate Sherlock Holmes on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday
23rd Celebrate Margaret Wise Brown’s children’s books on her birthday
27th Popsicle Day
29th Pink Flamingo Day
31st World Parrot Day
Memorial Day (the last Monday of May)
June Celebrations
June is Culinary Arts Month and Adopt-A-Cat Month
1st International Dinosaur Day
2nd Celebrate The Phantom Tollbooth on Norton Juster’s birthday
5th Hot Air Balloon Day
8th Best Friend Day
12th National Rose Day
National Flip Flop Day (second Friday in June)
Lilac Sunday (2nd Sunday of June)
14th US Flag Day
18th Go Fishing Day
21st First Day of Summer
24th International Fairy Day; Take Your Dog to Work Day
25th Celebrate Caterpillars on Eric Carle’s birthday
27th Paul Bunyon Day
29th Camera Day
Father’s Day is the 3rd Sunday in June
July Celebrations
July is National Blueberry Month and National Picnic Month
1st National Zoo Day
4th American Independence Day; Alice in Wonderland Day
7th World Chocolate Day; Doll Day
9th National Fashion Day; Collector Car Appreciation Day
10th Teddy Bear Picnic Day; Pina Colada Day
11th Celebrate Charlotte’s Web on E.B. White’s birthday
12th Henry David Thoreau Day; Cow Appreciation Day
14th Shark Awareness Day
15th National Gummi Worm Day
16th Cherry Day
20th National Lollypop Day; Chess Day
22nd Summer Leisure Day
23rd First Day of Fall; National Day of the Cowboy
24th National Parent’s Day
25th Merry-Go-Round Day; National Wine and Cheese Day
28th Celebrate Beatrix Potter on her birthday
29th International Tiger Day; National Lipstick Day
30th International Friendship Day
August Celebrations
August is National Fishing Month
National Golf Month and National Hotdog Month
1st National Girlfriend’s Day
4th National Chocolate Chip Day
8th International Cat Day
9th Celebrate Mary Poppins on P.L. Traver’s birthday; Book Lover’s Day
12th National Vinyl Record Day
16th National Roller Coaster Day
17th National Black Cat Day
26th National Dog Day
28th National Bow Tie Day
28th Celebrate Corgie’s on Tash Tudor’s birthday
30 Celebrate Frankenstein on Mary Shelley’s birthday; National Senior Day
September Celebrations
September is National Sewing Month
4th National Wildlife Day
Labor Day (the first Monday in September)
6th National Read a Book Day
11th hug Your Hound Day
13th Celebrate Roald Dahl on his birthday
Oktoberfest (17th – 4th of October)
22nd National Hobbit Day
25th International Rabbit Day
26th Celebrate cats with T.S. Elliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats on his birthday and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical
29th World Heart Day
October Celebrations
National Book Month, Photographer’s Appreciation Month, National Women’s History Month
1st Celebrate Balloons Around the World Day by reading Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days
World Ballet Day; World Card Making Day; International Music Day
3rd Butterfly Day
4th Tacco Day; World Animal Day
6th Celebrate Mad Hatter Day by Reading Lewis Carrol’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
8th World Octopus Day
9th National Curious Events Day
12th Farmer’s Day
13th M & M Day; I Love Lucy Day
15th Mushroom Day
18th Chocolate Cupcake Day
21st Back to the Future Day; Reptile Awareness Day
25th National Artist’s Day (take a tour of your local art museum)
26th National Pumpkin Day
28th National Chocolate Day
29th National Candy Corn Day (celebrate with Tim Holtz!)
31st Halloween
November Celebrations
1st National Author’s Day
1st Day of the Dead
2nd Cookie Monster Da; Look for Circles Day
4th King Tut Day; National Candy Day
5th National Football Day
7th Hug a Bear Day; Merlot Day
8th National Cappuccino Day
11th Veteran’s Day
12th Celebrate pirates and read Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
16th National Button Day
24th Celebrate A Secret Garden on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s birthday
Thanksgiving (the 4th Thursday of November)
29th Celebrate The Chronicles of Narnia on C.S. Lewis’s birthday
30th Mason Jar Day; Celebrate river boats on Mark Twain’s birthday and read Huckleberry Finn)
Celebrate Anne of Green Gables on L.M. Montgomery’s birthday
December Celebrations
December is National Pear Month and National Read A Book Month
1st National Pie Day
4th Cookie Day
6th Mitten Tree Day
Celebrate Walt Disney Day (1st Monday) with a movie
10th Celebrate dolls on Rumor Godden’s birthday
12th National Poinsettia Day
15th International Tea Day (have a cuppa)
16th Celebrate Jane Austen on her birthday
21st First Day of winter
25th Christmas
26th Candy Cane Day
30th Celebrate The Jungle Book on Rudyard Kipling’s birthday
31st New Year’s Eve