The 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe was to have been marked with a series of events, culminating with a spectacular VE Day concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Not to mention the street parties we had planned! However, due to the coronavirus pandemic all these plans are now cancelled.
But we can still celebrate! The ‘Stay at Home Street Party’ is encouraging people to decorate their houses in red, white and blue and have a picnic in their garden to celebrate.To plan your VE Day celebrations at home VE Day 75 and English Heritage have developed some toolkits, which include recipes, posters, dance moves and a Spotify play list for you to use! Check it out Here!
We’d love to hear your ideas on how to celebrate under lockdown – please share them on our Facebook page! Here are some of our ideas! Lots of crafting to keep the kids entertained and what a great history lesson too!
We also have lots of ideas on how you can celebrate with the family below.
Spitfire Colour in and Cut Out Activity
Colouring Heroes has some wonderful downloadable colouring sheets
We all know how kids love to dress up at any occasion so why not have the kids don their best WW2 outfits or they could come in their military uniforms, as knights or their Sunday best! Get back to the old fashioned way of making our fancy dress costumes, or I’m sure you’ve got plenty of costumes that could be re-used!
This one will have to be done in advance.
Grab some old newspaper, PVA glue, some balloons and some paint and create your own party hat from Papier-mache!! For a top hat try using a flower pot covered in cling film for your mould!
Set out the picnic blanket in the garden (if the sun is shining!!) or in front of the telly and enjoy some best of British favourites! You could even add some of our…
Baking ideas:
Go red, white and blue crazy! Take a look at some of these brilliant ideas:
Red, White & Blue Strawberries
Red, White & Blue Swirl Cookies
Or why not try your hand at some 1940’s baking – apple crumble, bread and butter pudding! HE (do those still exist?!) and History lesson in one – BOOM!
Try your hand at 1940’s baking!
There are lots of recipe ideas online to take you back to the 1940s. Here are a few of our favourites!
We all know how kids love to dress up at any occasion so why not have the kids don their best WW2 outfits or they could come in their military uniforms, as knights or their Sunday best!
Put a spin on the traditional party games with these fun ideas!
Please follow Government advice when celebrating VE Day
#StayHomeSaveLives.
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