May 14th Special Days - Featuring 20+ Chicken Dance Freebies!
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May 14th is... National Chicken Dance Day/Dance Like a Chicken Day, The Stars and Stripes Forever first played (1897), Anniversary of Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804), National Underground America Day (1974), National Decency Day, National Good Hair Day, International Dylan Thomas Day/Dylan Day, National Buttermilk Biscuit Day, Madonna of the Mountain Festival/Barabbata, St. Matthias' Day, Yellow Day/Rose Day
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PLUS - interesting books to read and free printables, paper crafts, kid crafts, activities, and coloring pages.
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National Chicken Dance Day/Dance Like a Chicken Day-- Swiss accordion player Werner Thomas wrote Der Ententanz or the Duck Dance, in the 1950s. When he played the song at a restaurant in Switzerland in 1963, people would get up and dance to the melody. Their movements reminded him of ducks and chickens. A music publisher happened to stop by the restaurant and the song spread through Europe. While it took quite a while to catch on in America, the upbeat melody eventually hit the party and wedding scene and the rest, as they say, is history.
Read: Chicken Dance
-- Meet Marge and Lola, chickens on a mission: to win tickets for the Elvis Poultry Show! But their toughest competition — a pack of menacing ducks — sneers that
all a chicken can do is bawk, flap, and shake.Can our two feisty chicks show those quackers how to rock ’n’ roll the barnyard? Tammi Sauer and Dan Santat have whipped up a giddy, goofy romp where cows fly over the moon, ducks surf in a water trough, and one very familiar-looking rooster gets all shook up!
• Philadelphia Chickens: A Too-Illogical Zoological Musical Revue -- Grammy nominee. #1 New York Times bestseller. And, with 1 million copies in print, a Recording Industry Association of America Platinum album. What an event! What a show! It's Philadelphia Chickens — the catchy and quirky, tuneful and toe-tapping, exuberant, unexpected, and totally endearing family-musical-in-a-book.
• Wacky, the Cluckin Chicken Toy -- Wacky is the cousin of the Famous Crazy Cluck Chicken who retired years ago. Wacky Chicken is taking the place of The Crazy Cluck Chicken as the greatest Dancing Twerking Animated Chicken in the World! Press his hand and he will do a funky fun dance to the Do Dah Song. Pick him up by his head feathers or by his neck and watch him squawk, wriggle and move around.
• Chicken Coloring and Activity Books
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🐔 Free Alexa Skills | Chicken Dance
Free Printables, Coloring Pages, Activities and Crafts:
🐔 Chicken Colouring Pages
🐔 Chicken Activities and Crafts
🐔 Chicken Mask
🐔 Dance dot to dot printable worksheets
🐔 How to Do the Chicken Dance
🐔 In this Kitchen We Dance {Free Cut File and Printable}
🐔 How to Do the Chicken Stretch
🐔 Pet Pad Action Bingo - LeapFrog
🐔 Make Handprint Chickens to Dance Around With
🐔 Printable Chicken Mask
🐔 Handprint Chicken Craft
🐔 Cardboard Box Chicken: Another Fun Craft from Box Yourself
🐔 Chickens (Hens and Roosters) Crafts and Activities
The Stars and Stripes Forever first played (1897)--
The Stars and Stripes Foreverwas an immediate hit. It was first performed at Willow Grove Park, just outside Philadelphia, on May 14, 1897, and was immediately greeted with enthusiasm. Whenever they performed, the audience would expect to hear
The Stars and Stripes Forever.When it was played, the audience would stand up as though it were the national anthem.
Read: Stars and Stripes Forever: The History, Stories, and Memories of Our American Flag
-- Traces the cultural fascination with the American flag from its inception through today's continued celebration of its lore, providing a host of historical facts, celebrity memories of Old Glory, and other personal accounts about the the flag's place in their hearts.
Free Printables and Crafts:
• John Philip Sousa Coloring Page
• Stars and Stripes Activities Pages
• History of U.S.Flags - American Coloring Pages
• SOUSA The Stars and Stripes Forever - 'The President's Own' U.S. Marine Band
Anniversary of Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804)-- On May 14, 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on an amazing expedition across the Louisiana Territory. These true American heroes faced unknown people, harsh conditions, and unexplored lands to secure a place in history as two of the world's greatest explorers.
Read: How We Crossed The West: The Adventures Of Lewis And Clark
-- Appealing art and descriptive text bring Lewis and Clark alive for young adventurers. Carefully chosen text from Lewis and Cark's actual journals opens a fascinating window into this country's exciting history.
Free Printables and Crafts:
• Lewis and Clark Worksheets and Coloring Pages
• On the Trail with Lewis and Clark - Kansas Historical Society
• Lewis and Clark | Make a Specimen Box Craft
• Lewis and Clark Activities
National Underground America Day (1974)-- Underground America Day was founded by architect Malcolm Wells in 1974. Mr. Wells passed away in 2009 but Underground America Day lives on to celebrate the thousands of homeowners who have decided to live a more ecologically aware lifestyle.
Read: Underground Homes
-- The classic guide to creating an underground dwelling. By reducing energy loss or gain and regulating extreme temperature fluctuations, underground homes are both energy- and cost-efficient. With numerous illustrations and diagrams, this how-to book offers tips on the planning, construction, and habitation of a subterranean lodging.
Free Printables and Crafts:
• Construction Colouring Pages
• Underground cities
• How to Celebrate Underground America Day
• 23 Unique and Functional Underground Houses That Will Amaze You
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