At the beginning of summer I especially want a holiday. The sun is shining, the puddles are dry and the mood is especially high. Against the background of emerald foliage and the expectation of holidays, the event dedicated to the Children's Day is especially bright. In our country it is celebrated on June 1.
Despite the frequently used addition “international,” it is not associated with the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child, adopted on November 20, 1959. In our country, the founder of the holiday was the signing of a similar document in Geneva (1924), where they first raised the issue of children's rights and the need to protect them.
Due to the fact that both documents, both 1924 and 1959, were important and set the direction for social attitude to children around the world, in different countries the celebration of Children's Day is usually timed to coincide with the signing of one of them.
Holiday in the city
June 1 - Children's Day - the event involves diverse. Festivals and concerts, theatrical performances, competitions and relay races, bike races and puppet shows - you can go on ad infinitum. Everyone can choose according to their taste.
To successfully hold Children's Day, events in Moscow are planned in advance. Having learned the holiday program at various venues (in theaters, museums, parks, etc.), you can choose the most interesting for your child. If he is mobile and is eager to participate in competitions - park events will become a highlight for him. If he likes to contemplate, the stage program will please him to a greater extent. Moreover, the International Children's Day, the event involves diverse.
Holiday on your own
Have you decided to arrange a holiday for your children yourself? Great idea! To begin its implementation, it is necessary to determine several parameters of the holiday:
1. For whom will the Children’s Day event be held? It will be boys, girls or a mixed company; what age, hobbies, level of sports, technical, intellectual training, etc.?
2. The number of children. This parameter will affect the choice of venue, the number of people needed to prepare and conduct the holiday.
3. Holiday format:
• Without the participation of children. In this case, they are only spectators, and such an event will not require rehearsals or preliminary preparation of the kids.
• With partial participation of children. A great way to alternate training and performances (format of a creative festival).
• With the full involvement of children in action (concerts by children's forces, quests, sports relay races)
4. Venue. The main aspects are the spaciousness and openness of the venue.
Holiday: Step by Step
The event for the Children's Day must be prepared in advance, having thought through the script, a platform for accommodation, equipment and decorations. When holding even a small event, get helpers (possibly from older children) who will turn on music, give out balls or collect drawings, etc. Due to the fact that events dedicated to Children's Day can be completely diverse, the general scenario can look like this:
- Welcome word, which will include congratulations. In the same block of the event, it is necessary to announce the program and the sequence of events of the holiday, the start time of the important blocks (performances, tea drinking, raising the flag, etc.).
- Main part. It will include a concert, performances, competitions, master classes.
- Final part. Awarding of winners, children, helpers, tea drinking, congratulations, as well as a general flash mob, spectacular elements (fireworks, launching the flag of the Children's Day in the air, etc.) will also complete the holiday.
Scenario
If you started organizing a children's holiday for the first time, you can use, at least partially, the services of special agencies with the provision of animators, clowns, organizers of quests, etc.
You can do it yourself by downloading the holiday script on the Internet or by inventing it on the basis of previously seen or discussed spectacles. The latter option is more time-consuming, but preferable because only parents know which contests, themes, heroes their children like best.
In the script, you immediately need to make notes about the necessary equipment and design in order to have time to buy and prepare it in advance. Be sure to think through plan B in case of changing conditions (rain, the arrival of another number of children, etc.). Events dedicated to Children's Day may be different, consider the main ones.
Concert
The concert by June 1 is a simple and “chamber” form of spending leisure time with children. Of the equipment you need a stage, a curtain (optional), places for speakers and spectators, stationary musical instruments (grand piano), musical equipment, a microphone. Young talents bring shoes and clothes together with their parents.
In preparing the script, you need to pay attention to several aspects:
1. The smallest artists need to be shown on the stage in the forefront so that they do not waste their ardor.
2. It is necessary to seat speakers near the exit so as not to spend a lot of time on the exit.
3. If a phonogram is needed for a concert number, it must be received by the organizer in advance and installed on equipment (which is also desirable to have in 2 copies).
4. Diverse numbers can be alternated. Dances, music, tricks can go differently or in whole blocks: music department, choreographic, etc.
5. Provide a place for changing clothes and applying makeup.
On June 1 (Children's Day), concert events can be prepared quickly. One day will be enough, because you perfectly know the talents of your children.
Sport's event
In contrast to the concert, you can prepare a sports festival by June 1. After a long winter and a rainy spring, children will be happy to celebrate the International Children's Day, the activities held in motion. It can be bike rides, rollerblading, badminton competitions (individual championship) or volleyball (team with older children).
The most common sporting event will be the team relay. It is very easy to adapt to the changing number of participants, it is transformed and modified with the replacement of competitions, as a rule, it does not require much preparation. Much can be done from improvised materials, for example, a baton from a small plastic water bottle.
Surprisingly, sports holidays can also be held on a small platform. To do this, you need to pick up “sedentary” relay races and coordination exercises (maintaining a balloon on a ruler).
Quests
You can organize real adventures! This type of entertainment during which participants (not only children) must complete tasks. Quest - a game whose plot involves the completion of all tasks in a certain time or a specific number of tasks out of all possible (9 out of 10, etc.).
This type of event is gaining popularity because it can be completely different: long and fleeting, with constant movement and motionless, intelligent and sporty. It can be on any topic!
Now it is possible to hold games in museums, botanical gardens, historical places. So the rest will turn out not only fun, but also informative.
Also the quests “get out of the room” are actively developing. Their charm is the possibility of being held on a tiny territory.
Which one to choose is up to you based on your specific situation. Only our imagination can limit diversity.
Such a game is more difficult to prepare, write and write. However, you can get indescribable pleasure from it! If you have no experience with the quest, start preparing it a week before June 1.
The most important thing
Whatever you decide to choose an event for Children's Day, you need to remember the social significance of the holiday. The value of each child is extremely important, he has his rights. The task of adults is to make childhood cloudless and happy. That is why, on June 1, it was decided to actively help children in need of support: hold concerts in children's hospitals, boarding schools for children with disabilities, hold charity fairs for children's crafts, with funds transferred to patients' accounts.
If your child helps and has compassion for others from an early age, he grows up as a sensitive and responsive person, a caring family member. It is very important to remember this.