WOYC Daily Themes
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NAEYC invites you to celebrate early childhood education and shine a spotlight on your program, advocacy, and family engagement activities via your social channels. This year is extra special: we’re celebrating Week of the Young Child 100 days into NAEYC’s 100th year!
We’ve kept the same daily themes, but this year we challenge YOU to expand them even further! Congratulations on spreading the word about the importance of high-quality early learning and the critical role early childhood educators play in children’s development and growth.
Children learn so much as they enjoy music, explore food and cooking, build together, create art, and celebrate their families. We hope this year’s activities inspire you even more, as we honor the past, celebrate the present, and imagine the next 100 years of joyful learning together!
Discover our Daily WOYC Themes!
Kick-off Saturday
Get ready to kick off Week of the Young Child by planning how you will participate in the daily themes and engage your community throughout the week.
Music Monday
When you invite children to sing, dance, and listen to music, you develop their language and early literacy skills while encouraging movement.
Visit our resources page for inspiration.
Tasty Tuesday
This fun, food-themed day is about more than just cheese and crackers. Cooking together connects math with literacy skills, science, and more. With the rise in childhood obesity, you can encourage healthy nutrition and fitness habits.
Visit our resources page for more ideas on healthy food creations and activities!
Work Together Wednesday
When children build together they explore math and science concepts and develop their social and early literacy skills. Children can use any building material—from a fort of branches on the playground to a block city in the classroom, or a hideaway made from couch pillows at home.
Visit our resources page to learn more on how teamwork develops young children's social and early literacy skills.
Work Together Wednesday is sponsored by
Artsy Thursday
Think, problem solve, and create! Children develop creativity, social skills, and fine motor skills through open-ended art projects where they can make choices, use their imaginations, and create with their hands. On Artsy Thursday, celebrate the joy and learning children experience when expressing themselves through art.
Visit our resources page for articles on encouraging imagination and creativity in children.
Artsy Thursday is sponsored by
Family Friday
Engaging and celebrating families is at the heart of supporting our youngest learners. NAEYC applauds family members’ role as young children’s first and most important teachers.
Visit our resources page celebrations for more ideas on celebrating young children and their families.
Family Friday is sponsored by
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