Celebrate National Twins Day

August 4, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Did you know that August 5 is celebrated as National Twins Day? More generally, the first weekend of the month of August is Twins Days, which is a festival held in Twinsburg, Ohio, each year to celebrate twins of all types. The event has taken place since 1976 and routinely attracts up to 2,000 pairs of twins. (Dressing alike is, apparently heavily encouraged but not required.)

If you want to celebrate twins at home or at school, check out some books about twins! This collection was gathered by Twin Mom and More, and includes a nice collection of picture books for twins and about twins. These would be great to give at a baby shower for a twin mom, if you happen to know one of those.

Maybe you’ll want to learn some fun facts about twins as well. About 3 percent of births are twins. Identical twins develop from a single egg and share all of the same DNA, while fraternal twins develop from two separate eggs, so they do not share all their DNA. Twins are more likely to be born premature, and they’re also more likely to be left handed (22 percent of twins compared to 10 percent of single babies are left handed).

I couldn’t find a lot in the way of activities for Twin Day, but of course lots of matching games would be appropriate. Childhood 101 and Activity Mom both have good collections of printable matching games if you don’t already have a collection of your own.

You could also practice doubling numbers or dividing things in half. Stories by Storie has some great ideas for games, songs and other activities for learning about doubling numbers that would be fun for your very own twin day.

Add in a little throwback TV and introduce your kids to “Rugrats” while you eat your Twin Pops and your twins day will be complete!

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

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