August is a poor forlorn month.
It doesn’t have any national holidays.
It’s the month when your grandchildren have to go back to school — well at least in our state this is the month kids go back. (Some of your grandkids may rejoice and be excited. Others may dread the day.)
To perk up this month and to perk up your activities with your grandchildren, I found a list of wacky and unusual ‘national day’ events in August that would be a hoot to celebrate with grandkids.
Here is just a smidgeon:
- August 2 – National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. Rats! We’re a day late here, folks. But, I bet if you had a belated ice cream sandwich day with your grandchildren they wouldn’t complain.
- August 3 – National Watermelon Day. Yipee! Rush out and buy one of these little puppies and then have fun carving them.
- August 5 – Work Like a Dog Day. Be sure to come to my house to celebrate this day . . .
- August 6 – National Mustard Day (the first Saturday in August)
- August 6 – Wiggle Your Toes Day. (I kid you not folks. This really was on the list of national holidays.)
- August 7 – Friendship Day (first Sunday in August)
- August 7 – International Forgiveness Day
- August 7 – National Lighthouse Day. Here’s a fun lighthouse in a bottle craft activity.
- August 8 – Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day (wickedly fun!)
- August 9 – Book Lover’s Day (Spend time with your grandchildren at the library or book store and reading then reading your books.)
- August 10 – Lazy Day
- August 10 – National S’mores Day (Invite me over if you celebrate this day!)
- August 13 – Left-Handers’ Day
- August 16 – National Tell a Joke Day
- August 17 – National Thriftshop day (I can see that this could be a great activity to do with grandchildren!)
- August 20 – National Radio Day (Do grandkids of today even know what a radio is? Probably the only association they have is with the one in the car.)
- August 24 – Vesuvius Day (This day in 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius erupted. It was one of the largest volcanic explosions in recorded history. Make your own volcano with your grandchild.)
- August 30 – Frankenstein Day. This day is Mary Wollenstone Shelley’s birthday. She’s the author of Frankenstein. This day honors her birth. If you celebrate Book Lover’s Day, you could check Frankenstein out of the library and read it by this day. Then you can make this goofy Frankenstein puppet craft.
- August 30 – Toasted Marshmallow Day
- August 31 – National Trail Mix Day
