For most children, Labor Day is regarded as a day off from school. Why not take this day off from classes and work to spend time together with a holiday education party? Labor Day is celebrated on the first Monday of each September, and is meant to celebrate the accomplishments of all workers. It is the holiday that is not devoted to a no group of people, sex, religion, race, the living, or the dead—which is quite unlike the rest of the American holidays. Labor Day is a great time to encourage your children to think about what they want to do when they grow up and why. Have them draw pictures to show the profession they want. An extension of this, is to have the children think, talk about, and draw the professions that they appreciate most, and why. Let them dress up and pretend to be a worker for a few hours, or the day. Ask them their favorite household item or toy, and then tell them a bit about the worker who invented it. To finish it off, have the children all pretend to be chefs, and help you in the kitchen with the Labor Day family picnic or dinner meal! Thousands of laborers do all sorts of things every other day of the year, and many of them without so much as thanks for what they do. Work with the children to write a letter of thanks for the work you do to a local business or organization, such as the fire department, or the parks and recreation building. And do not forget the people that still have to work on Labor Day!
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