What's going to be the next thing to celebrate?!?!!?

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My son is 2 and a half and moved from the baby room only few months ago. There were not many 'big' events celebrated there, only Christmas I think.
Now in the big boys room there seem to be a lot of fun activities and I constantly find myself not prepared for them! It doesn't help the nursery takes for granted we know them all and only sends a message the day before, reminding to dress up for World Books Day or St Patricks.
I am not yet used to have to plan for them and I would have appreciated to be told in advance as I couldn't really do much at 4pm for the following morning.

I am going to ask them to let me know in advance, however....can you advice what else might come up in the next few months requiring to dress up or similar??

Red nose Day on Friday this week.
Probably something for Easter.

Red nose day! YES!
Thanks so much!

My DD is only 5months. But from memory of my step DC (some of these may be school related). Also some they had to take things in for / dress up / activities in school.

Pancake day
World book day
St Patrick’s day
Red Nose Day
Easter
At George Day
Mothers / fathers Day
VE Day / queens jubilee
Sports Day
Harvest
Odd sock day (November I think)
Christmas
School nativity
Halloween / guy fawkes
Remembrance Sunday

There was other things like science week, world week, animal day, story day, where they would have to dress up or take something in from home too. But it’s a minefield. I use to / still do now for DD work on a quarterly schedule. So get all the birthday presents / cards / event stuff ready for each 3 months at a time.

Oh dear - it seems I will need quite a few costumes then! How do people keep up?

Our nursery send a list some months and not others. There was a Disney day one week which took me completely by surprise!

Today was wear green for St Patrick's Day, I was sad I didn't have a Guinness hat to stick on him 😆 I just send him in with what we've got - he wore Green today because he's got a green jumper that is ok to go to nursery but didn't wear yellow for St David's day because he doesn't own anything yellow!

Mine didn't go with anything green either, as he doesn't own anything in that color (I didn't even realize!). I will be better prepared going forward!

Oh I hate this! Our nursery doesn't seem to send any advance warning for these things beyond a notice on the door that we aren't allowed to stand close enough to to read properly!

Thankfully I sent him in a green top today purely by chance

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Mine didn't go with anything green either, as he doesn't own anything in that color (I didn't even realize!). I will be better prepared going forward!

It's sweet you're thinking ahead but these things really are not compulsory! You have at least 3 years before your child will even notice, and then they may still not care. Don't put extra pressure on yourself about things that really don't matter

Mine went in green today, purely because they both own green things so that was ok. World book day is taking place next week for mine, and they're making costumes there, they just have to wear a certain colour to go with. So again that's fine. Last year for world book day they did PJ's which was easy too.

The only time they've had to go in wearing an actual costume so far has been halloween, and DS would not wear his the first year, so I put him in trousers and a tshirt that happened to have a halloweeny picture on it. That was fine. As pp have said, it's not compulsory, it's just a bit of fun for them, and half the time they won't care anyway.