Spring Holidays
There’s a long list of national holidays in the spring, some being Mother’s Day, Easter, Earth Day, and Memorial Day. In this article, you will be reading about the origin of these holidays.
The first holiday is a classic and is loved by people of all ages: Easter! Easter is on Sunday April 21 (2019). Even though you remember the Easter egg hunts and Easter bunny from when you were little, there’s a bigger story behind it. Easter is actually a Christian holiday, which celebrates the rising of Christ from the grave. A holiday that is based on Easter is Palm Sunday, which is the Sunday after Easter and celebrates Jesus coming to Jerusalem. There is also Good Friday which is when Jesus died on the cross.
This next holiday is actually the day after Easter, believe it or not. It’s Earth Day! You also might remember when you were in elementary school and would go outside and clean up the playgrounds and the school grounds. Earth Day is on April 22 -- if you haven’t put that together yet -- and was made in 1970. And its founder is Gaylord Nelson. Something you could do to celebrate Earth Day could be picking up trash in your area and just taking care of your community. A fun fact about Earth Day is that 193 countries celebrate it!
Mother’s Day is on May 12 and was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908. It actually became a holiday in 1914. Most Mother’s Day traditions include giving presents to the mothers in your family or community. But like most things, it varies from family to family.
One last holiday is Memorial Day. Memorial Day is on the last Monday of May and it’s all about remembering your loved ones and people who died in the U.S. military. Memorial Day was started in 1971 and used to be called Decoration Day -- most likely because you would decorated the headstones.
Memorial Day was started in Waterloo, NY in May of 1866.
Written by Madison
