National Tooth Fairy Day & Other Cool Holidays

How will you celebrate Polar Bear Day?  Will you go to the zoo to see polar bears, or will you seek them out in their natural habitat?  Are you brave enough to swallow a sword on International Sword Swallowers Day?  On National Tooth Fairy Day, will you watch The Tooth Fairy or Darkness Falls?  Will you snooze the day away on Public Sleeping Day?

The following holidays are in February. Whether you write historical fiction or romance, mysteries or thrillers, children’s stories or horror, I’m sure you can use one of the holidays mentioned in your story.

polar bear, wikipedia

No Brainer Day – What is a “no brainer”? It is something that is super easy and so obvious that anyone should be able to understand it. If your plans for this day require serious thinking or a lot of thought, this isn’t the day for them. Today you need to just do simple, relaxing things.

Who created this day? Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith is the one who blessed us with this day. Why not write a story about how and why you believe she created it?

Polar Bear Day – I think polar bears are beautiful, magnificent creatures. Want to know some interesting facts about this bear?
>Even though they appear to be white, they aren’t really. Their hair is transparent and reflects visible light.
>An adult male can 10 feet tall (when standing) and weigh up to 1400 pounds.
>Female polar bears begin having cubs at 4 or 5 years of age.
>Newborn polar bears weigh little more than a pound.
>These cubs go to school while their mother is hunting. They must freeze and remain still. If they mess up and move, their mama gives them a whack on the head.

There are many, many more fascinating facts about these beautiful animals. On this day that celebrates them, go to the zoo and see some for yourself. Try to find out some more interesting facts about them then write a story about a family of polar bears.  Maybe the below video will help you get started.

International Sword Swallowers Day – This holiday, of course, was founded by the Sword Swallowers Association International. Each year it is co-sponsored by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditoriums. How do you celebrate this day? Well, if you happen to be a sword swallower, you swallow as many swords as you can in the most outrageous way possible. If not, you can go to one of Ripleys’s Believe It or Not! Odditoriums and watch those who do swallow swords swallow them. And I would not recommend trying to swallow a sword if you are not a professional. Anyway, a Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditorium and a group of sword swallowers on this holiday would make an intriguing setting for a crime to take place. Why not try your hand at writing one?

tooth fairy, nationaldaycalendar.com

National Tooth Fairy Day – Over the years, different cultures have looked upon the loss of children’s teeth in some really strange ways. Some thought that witches and evil spirits would use these lost teeth for voodoo, so these teeth were buried to hide them. The Vikings would pay children for their lost baby teeth. Why? They believed that these teeth had magical powers and would help them during battle. The baby teeth they obtained would be strung onto jewelry worn in battle.

Before the invention of the tooth fairy, there was a tooth mouse. This mouse would run around in the middle of the night and gather up all the lost teeth. This little mouse soon morphed into a fairy who would leave presents underneath each pillow in place of the lost tooth.

You should already have lots of ideas for stories just from the information about superstitions surrounding lost baby teeth given above. Choose one of the facts above, investigate it some more, and write a story about it.

Stories about the tooth fairy have been written, and they have been made into movies.  I am including the trailers for two of them. The first one, The Tooth Fairy, is a comedy in which a tough hockey player is sentenced to be the tooth fairy for a year.

If you prefer a horror movie over a comedy, and if you want to see the tooth fairy as an evil winged creature of doom, Darkness Falls is the movie for you. 

red wine, wallpaperswide.com

Open That Bottle Night – Perhaps you have a bottle of wine hidden away that you have been saving for a special occasion. If so, then this is the night to open it and create some special memories of your own.

My mind always tends to go for crime/thriller settings for stories, but I’m guessing that this would be a great time for a romance story. Maybe you could mix a bit of mystery and intrigue with it.

Public Sleeping Day, www.wikihow.com

Public Sleeping Day – Have you ever fallen asleep on a park bench? Have you dozed off while laying out in the sun? Perhaps you’ve dozed off while at work or at school. This is how you celebrate Public Sleeping Day – you sleep in public.

How was this day created? I don’t know, but I think that probably somebody fell asleep at work and was caught by the boss. This person then came up with the excuse that he or she was just celebrating Public Sleeping Day. Why not write a story about it?