We are so excited for another fun-filled week celebrating young children and their families with hands-on, collaborative activities encouraging movement and healthy lifestyles through music, food, and art. Have questions on how to celebrate Week of the Young Child with our youngest learners?
View our FAQs below! Celebrations are organized and coordinated NAEYC Affiliates, and by individual early childhood programs and community organizations providing services to young children and families. Local communities may tailor celebrations to meet their own needs. However adapted, the central purpose remains unchanged—to promote the needs of young children, their families, and the early childhood programs that serve them.
Today we know more than ever before about the importance of children's earliest years in shaping their learning and development. Yet, never before have the needs of young children and their families been more pressing. Check out our WOYC event recap for a look at how classrooms, programs, families, and communities celebrated in ! It was a situation most parents would find unimaginable, but for the Suis it was a stark reality they somehow needed to accept.
But how? Jessica and Chris Sui had been introduced to Canuck Place clinical nurse specialist Nadine Lusney before Charlotte was born, when it was clear that there was no chance that she would survive for very long after birth. Every parent wants their child to matter, to be a light that touches and impacts others in this world. When Charlotte was transferred to Canuck Place, the clinical staff set up her home care and familiarized themselves with her condition and needs.
More importantly, she allowed us to express our grief. There is no one way to hold a Christingle celebration. From socially distanced gatherings, to intimate events online, last year showed us how communities can come together to Christingle safely in new and innovative ways. Christingles are usually held from the end of November through to February Advent to Candlemas , with Christmas Eve being a particularly popular time for services.
But you can host one whenever you like. During the service, each person takes a Christingle and the candles are all lit to create a warm, magical glow symbolising the light of Christ and bringing hope to people living in darkness. Christingles are made using oranges and a few other bits, as you choose. You light the candle at the end of a service to spread a magical glow around everyone.
Christingle celebrations have been taking place for over 50 years. Our first Christingle service took place at Lincoln Cathedral in , but Christingles themselves go back much further to the Moravian church in Germany. Whether you're planning a virtual Christingle or a Christingle service in person, we'll help you celebrate and shine a light for young people.
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