Imagine the strange and jazzy layouts you can make celebrating some of these wild, wacky and unusual holidays. These have been collected and compiled from various sources over the years of my teaching and we celebrated many of them in the classroom. Celebrate them with your children and family and create fun and wacky layouts!
The Month of October
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
Computer Learning Month
Dental Hygiene Month
Fire Prevention Month
Halloween Safety Month
National Chili Month
National Cookbook Month
National Cookie Month
National Roller Skating Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
Pasta Month
The second week in October is Pickled Pepper Week
October 3rd-9th is Fire Prevention Week
October 3rd-9th is National Newspaper Week
October 3rd-9th is Squirrel Appreciation Week
October 4th-10th is World Space Week
October 11th-15th is National Pet Peeve Week
October 17th-23rd National Chemistry Week
October 17th-23rd National School Bus Safety Week
October 18th-25th World Rain Forest Week
October 20th-26th National Business Women’s Week
1 President Jimmy Carter’s Birthday
1 Scare a Friend Day
1 World Vegetarian Day
1 World Smile Day
2 Name Your Car Day
2 Ghandi’s Birthday
2 Charlie Brown and Snoopy’s Birthday
2 World Farm Animals Day
4 Virus Appreciation Day
4 National Gold Day
4 National Taco Day
5 National Storytelling Festival
5 Spinach Lovers Day
5 World Teachers Day
6 National German-American Day
6 Thor Heyerdalh’s birthday (sailed the Kon Tiki)
7 President Reagan signed a bill making the Rose the national flower of the U.S. (1986)
8 Leif Erikson Day
8 American Tag Day
8 World Egg Day
8 The Great Chicago Fire began (1851)
10 Columbus Day (U.S. traditional)
10 National Angel Food Cake Day
10 Dia de la Raza – Mexico celebrates the discovery of America
11 Eleanor Roosevelt’s Birthday
13 National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work and School Day
14 Be Bald and Be Free Day
14 National Dessert Day
15 National Grouch Day
16 Noah Webster’s Birthday (compiler of the 1st dictionary)
16 Dictionary Day
16 National Boss Day
16 Sweetest Day
17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
18 No Beard Day
19 National Forest Products Day
20 End of Hurricane Season
21 National Babbling Day
21 Dizzy Gillespie’s Birthday (Jazz trumpet musician)
22 Swallows depart from Capistrano, California
22 National Color Day
22 United Nations Day
23 Televisions Talk Show Host Day
23 National Nut Day
23 National Mole Day
24 Mrs Ana Edson Taylor became first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel–and survive.
24 United Nations Day
24 National Bologna Day
25 Pablo Picasso’s Birthday (artist)
26 Steven Kellog’s Birthday (author of “Pecos Bill” & “Johnny Appleseed”)
26 National Mule Day
28 National Disgusting Little Pumpkin-Shaped Candies Day
28 Statue of Liberty’s Birthday
28 Plush Animal Lover’s Day
28 National Chocolate Day
29 Hermit Day
29 Bring your Jack-O-Lantern to Work Day
29 Great Stock Market Crash of 1929
30 National Candy Corn Day
30 Emily Post’s Birthday (newspaper columnist and expert on manners)
31 Mount Rushmore completed in 1941
31 Harry Houdini, famous magician and escape artist dies
31 National Magic Day
31 Halloween
Visit the scrapbooking blog for more strange holidays and events to scrapbook about.
Related Links:
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In January
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In February
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In March
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In April
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In May
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In June
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In July
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In August
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In September
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In October
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In November
Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In December