We use celebration days, following the pattern established by God in celebrating feasts to memorialize His mighty works lest His people forget, as a way to memorialize what we have learned at the end of big studies and I thought it would be fun to share with you some of the ones we have done thus far to give you some ideas for your own.  So to begin I will tell you about the ones we did our first year of homeschooling.

Our very first celebration day is one we do every year called Plimouth Plantation Day (Here are a couple great resources for celebrating this: here and here) where we dress up in our best attempt at homemade Pilgrim or Indian costumes that we can come up with and play games, sing songs, read Scripture, present the story in some way (read a book, have the kids retell it, or act it out), and have an authentic feast. We look forward to this every year!

The next special day we celebrated was an end our literature study of Winnie-the-Pooh.  We had a Pooh Bear Tea Party on a blanket on our living room floor complete with Spot o' Honey Tea, Christopher Robin Egg Salad Sandwiches, Rabbit's Garden Veggies, Pooh Bear PB and Honeys, and Tigger's Malt Balls (Whoppers- which were of course the highlight!)

The third celebration we did that year was Beatrix Potter Day after we had done a literature study of Peter Rabbit and other stories by Beatrix.  For this we turned our bathtub into Jeremy Fisher's Fishing Pond for a fishing activity, our classroom became Beatrix Potter's Art Studio where the kids got to use watercolors to paint pictures of the characters from the stories, our kitchen became Hunca Munca's kitchen where we prepared a few of the dishes from a Beatrix Potter cookbook I found at the library, and finally our living room was turned into Mr. McGregor's garden where the kids had to race to find their lost mitten before Mr. McGregor could catch them.

Our last celebration day for our first year of school was a Pioneer Day to mark the finish of our literature study of Little House in the Big Woods.  We spent the day learning Pioneer skills like making butter and jerky,and how to tell time by the sun. We also tryed Pioneer foods, listened to Pioneer music, and played games that the Pioneer children would have. My favorite book to use for planning Pioneer activities is called 'Westward Ho' by Laurie Carlson- in fact I recommend all of her historically themed activity books.

Most of our ideas for these celebration days come from our Noah Plan lesson books- they are terrific guides in so many ways and I refer to them often in my lesson planning.