Halloween greeting cards

Halloween is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. Many Halloween traditions originated from the ancient Celtic harvest festival of Samhain. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising), attending Halloween costume parties, decorating, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing and divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories and watching horror films. Here are some Halloween greeting cards you can share and send to whoever you want.

Halloween Temporary Tattoos for Kids

Passover worksheets and coloring pages

Worksheets and coloring pages for Passover. Passover is a Jewish holiday celebrated for seven days, from the 15th of the Hebrew month Nisan to the 21st of Nisan.

Passover is called the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the Bible and is the first of the  Three Pilgrimage Festivals. The first and last day of the holiday are holidays, and the days in between are called the Sabbath.

Passover is celebrated in memory of the exodus of the children of Israel from the Egyptian slavery to freedom, and its name derives from the verse that tells of the plague of the firstborn that fell on the Egyptians (Book of Exodus, chapter twelve, verse 27).

Passover Mitzvot: Prohibition of eating and keeping chametz, eating matzah and the story of the Exodus on the first night of the holiday (Seder night).

The pages are suitable for children in pre-school kindergarten and for children in the lower grades. The theme that the worksheets focus on is Passover and they practice reading and writing the most prominent symbols of Passover and spring, Passover  customs and food.

PS- To save paper and help our planet, you can print on used pages, on the blank side ♥

Happy Passover greeting card

Happy Passover greeting card

Happy Passover greeting card

Write about yourself for Passover

Passover coloring page

Passoverr Seder plate coloring sheet

I Spy- removal of chametz

color the clothes for the Seder night

Passover greeting

Passover maze

Passover word search

Make your own Passover word search

Passover Sudoku

Passover Sudoku

Teddy bear eats matzah

Passover maze

Passover patterns

Afikoman gift wish list

Afikoman bag

Afikoman maze

Passover words

Passover game

Pomegranate maze

I spy passover subjects

Find the same direction

Match the correct shadow

write the missing letter

Word scramble

Count and color for Passover

Count and color for Passover

Roller Coaster Day - August 16

Roller Coaster Day is celebrated every year on August 16. The reason for choosing the date is not clear, but the most reliable explanation for choosing this day is that on August 16, 1898, the first patent for a ride on a roller coaster was registered. The date August 16th has been marked by fairs, parks and roller coaster fans all over the world since the 1980s.

The origin of the first roller coaster is a train called "Russian Mountains". This train was specially designed to fit the icebergs that surround St. Petersburg.

It was built on the snow slopes in the 15th century from slides at a height of 24 meters reinforced by wooden beams. In many languages, "Russian Mountains" remains the name for the roller coaster. Precisely in modern Russia the name of the roller coaster is "American mountains" (American gorki).

Some historians claim that the first real roller coaster was built at the behest of Russian Queen Catherine the Great in 1784 in the Orinbaum Gardens in St. Petersburg.

Other historians believe that the first roller coaster was built by the French. "Belleville's Russian Mountains" was built in Paris in 1812 and had carriages with wheels that locked for safety and traveled at a higher speed.

The roller coasters do give passengers a sense of immediate danger, but statistically speaking they are extremely safe, and the chance of being injured in them in a way that requires hospital treatment is 1 in 20 million.

How to celebrate roller coaster day?

Across the US, many of the largest parks are offering special deals to visitors on August 16. Devout roller coaster fans don't give up this day to ride a roller coaster and some even take a day off work for it.

If you are a roller coaster lover, come to the amusement park, ride a roller coaster and take a picture of yourself as a souvenir.

Happy roller coaster day!

Some photos os people in Roller Coaster:

Pineapple Day- 27 June

Pineapple is one of the most delicious fruits. He is so sweet and juicy that it is hard to remain indifferent to him. And admit that it is also one of the most beautiful fruits there is.

The pineapple is a fruit grown on the ground, although many people think it grows on a tree. It emerges from the stem of a low plant, with only one pineapple growing on each plant.

The pineapple is a tropical fruit whose source is in South America, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay.

According to the existing evidence, the first people to eat the pineapple were the Indians, or rather the Native Americans and the origin of the name "pineapple" is from the word "anna" which means "good fruit" in the Tufian language (a language used by native South Americans).

The pineapple has many uses such as a dessert, a fruit salad ingredient, a cake additive, an addition to a Hawaiian pizza and SpongeBob's house.

  You can eat it fresh, canned or fried, in any case it remains tasty.

The pineapple is also healthy: it is an excellent source of vitamin C, has no fat, has a lot of dietary fiber and vitamin A.

Happy Pineapple Day!

 June 27 is also Industrial Workers Of The World Day and National Sunglasses Day

Industrial Workers Of The World Day - June 27

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is an international trade union formed in the United States on June 27, 1905.

The organization had industry workers and their goal was to unite them and take care of them. They worked to abolish the accepted wage system and instead adopt a method of distributing profits among all workers. They support the democratic self-management model, according to which employees elect their managers and participate in the organizational decisions of their workplace.

In slang, members of the organization are called "Wobblies".

The peak of the organization was in 1923 when it had 40,000 employees. After the American administration opposed him and fought against him between 1917 and 1924, in severe government repression called the "Red Intimidation", as part of the policy of the American administration, which saw communism as a threat to the foundations of democratic society, there was a decline in its power.

In 1924, as a result of internal debates about the principles of the organization and how it would operate in the future. As a result of these events, the organization was unable to replicate its influence and achievements and remained a relatively negligible body from the 1940s onwards, although it has remained active to this day and numbers only about 5,000 members in the United States as of 2005.

Membership in the organization is open to all employees. Any employee can join the organization, even if his workplace is not part of it, and even if he is a member of another organization. Link to IWW

June 27 is also Pineapple Day and Sunglasses Day

Sunglasses Day - June 27

Everyone has at least one pair of them but Elton John has over a thousand. what are we talking about? about sunglasses of course!

Sunglasses are an item designed to protect our eyes. They absorb radiation and regulate the entry of sunlight to prevent glare, but they are also a popular fashion item that is necessary to complete our look and add a cool style.

We do not know why June 27 was chosen as sunglasses day, but what is known is that sunglasses were invented a long time ago. Already in the prehistoric period, the Inuit peoples (Eskimos) who lived in the Arctic realized that they needed to reduce the amount of light entering their eyes to prevent blindness that could be caused by the glare created by the sunlight returning from the snow. They made ivory accessories that limited the amount of light that entered the eyes.

Inuit sunglasses designed to reduce the entry of sunlight into the eyes

In the 14th century, Chinese court judges used "smoky" quartz glasses to hide their eye expressions during the trial and appear indifferent.

In the mid-18th century, James Iscoff of the United States experimented with glasses with lenses made of dark glass in order to find effective remedies for vision problems. His goal was not to protect the eyes from sunlight to prevent vision problems, but to solve the problems after they appeared. His glasses are similar to the sunglasses we have today, but they have not yet completely protected the eyes from the harmful rays of the sun.

One of the surviving testimonies from the history of sunglasses is that of the famous French scientist Antoine Lavoisier in 1772, who wore dark glasses while conducting an experiment related to combustion created by increasing sunlight.

In the photo: Antoine Lavoisier wears sunglasses (Source)

The sunglasses as we know them today began to be marketed only in 1929, when entrepreneur Sam Foster began selling them to people who visited the promenade on the shores of Atlantic City in the USA.

Those who have made a significant contribution to the promotion of sunglasses and their recognition as an essential commodity are the pilots of the U.S. Air Force in World War I. Many pilots have complained that sunlight causes them headaches, dizziness and nausea and also blinds them and interferes with them performing gentle maneuvers. Therefore, in 1933, the U.S. military ordered a large number of sunglasses from the optics company Bush & Lomb to protect its pilots.

In 1937, Bush & Lomb created the "Ray Banner" brand, which means "Ray Banner". The glasses gained much popularity mainly among men, thanks to the masculinity they radiated because of their connection to the military pilots.

In the 1960s, sunglasses became a fashionable accessory. In the time of the flower children the sunglasses were given an infinity of new shapes, sizes and colors, to complete the popular hippie look.

How to celebrate Sunglasses Day?

Sunglasses have a very long history, but also a promising future. They are a must-have item for everyone both for health and for appearance. The Sunglasses Day website wants to upload selfies with sunglasses to social media and add the hashtag #SunglassSelfie or #NationalSunglassesDay to celebrate this day.

June 27 is also Industrial Workers Of The World Day and Pineapple Day