CELEBRATIONS

 Children love celebrations.  Any number of things can give rise to one: birthdays, holidays, a stretch of bad weather, a goal reached, a special place, a meeting with friends.  Children hardly care what excuse you dream up for a celebration.  The event is always welcome and cause for plenty of excitement.  Years later they will still remember a place because it was where someone had a birthday or Carnival took place or you had an impromptu party when it rained for three days.

 Let the children get involved.  More than anything else, children love the preparation period.  Some celebrations can be sprung as a surprise or done on the spur of the moment, but most are planned ahead and anticipated with great delight by children.  Let them in on as much of the preparations as possible.  Due to their enforced separation from the entertainment devices of home, adventuring children become very creative and eager to participate in activities of this type.