For Organizations: Ideas for Celebration
- Call local restaurants, retail stores, and grocery stores to request gift certificates for the child care providers you work with
- Plan a luncheon or dinner honoring child care providers
- Hang banners or posters
- Ask government officials to sign a proclamation
- Purchase a new piece of equipment in honor of the day
- Provide a scholarship for an early care education conference or workshop
- Pay for a day off so a provider may attend a conference or workshop
- Organize a spa day
- Plan a parent/provider picnic
- Have a parade or dedicate a park
- Send a press release to your local newspaper
- Invite staff and parents to partner with you to plan a program-wide event
- Invite neighboring early childhood organizations to join you in your celebration
Provider Appreciation Day is a special day to recognize child care providers, teachers and other educators of young children everywhere. Started in 1996 by a group of volunteers in New Jersey, Provider Appreciation Day is appropriately celebrated each year on the Friday before Mother's Day.
