International Children's Day has been celebrated on June 1 for several decades in more than 60 countries. It was officially celebrated for the first time in 1950, but its origins children's day happened in the 20s of the last century.

Few people know that in 2016, Patriarch Kirill dedicated a special appeal to International Children’s Day calling for donations to support women in crisis. life situation. On May 29, the last Sunday of the month, it was read out in every church, accompanied by the collection of funds for the creation of humanitarian aid centers for women expecting a child. Fundraising, which took place throughout the country, brought in 38 million rubles, which should be used to create new humanitarian aid centers.

The significance of International Children's Day in Russia

In Russia, the holiday continues to be celebrated on a grand scale. It has never been and is not a day off, but it is on this day that the favorite time of schoolchildren starts - summer holidays. Schools and preschool institutions traditionally host sports competitions, competitions, concerts, joint film screenings and other entertainment events.

Following good traditions, children's drawing competitions are held in city squares and parks. Just like dozens of years ago, kids draw the sun, peaceful sky, mom and dad holding hands on the asphalt. Loving parents try to spend this day with their child and give him festive mood with accessible entertainment.

Authoritative adults gather to resolve pressing issues, and generous sponsors provide financial assistance to coincide with the holiday. Special attention is given to helping orphanages, large families, children from disadvantaged families and children suffering from serious illnesses.

Background and history of the International Children's Day

History knows that in 1925, on the very first day of summer, the Consul General of China in San Francisco found children who had lost their parents and organized for them National holiday- Duanwu jie, commonly known as the Dragon Boat Festival. In parallel with this event, the first international conference was held in Geneva on the first day of June, examining pressing problems of the well-being of the younger generation. These events contributed to the emergence of the idea of ​​a holiday dedicated to children.

The holiday was officially established in post-war 1949 at the November Congress of the International Democratic Federation of Women. The first Children's Day in world history was celebrated on June 1, 1950, and events dedicated to it were held in 51 countries around the world. The purpose of these events was to draw attention to the non-children's problems of those who cannot fend for themselves. First of all, the organizers wanted to protect children from hunger and war. At this conference, they vowed to do everything possible to maintain peace throughout the planet.

The UN approved the initiative and contributed to the protection of the younger generation. In 1959, she drew up the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which included a number of articles providing legal protection for minors. The Declaration had no legal force, but its recommendations were readily accepted in many states.

30 years later, in November 1989, the UN prepared the Convention on the Rights of the Child - the main document defining the responsibilities of states towards children. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR ratified convection on July 13, 1990, and on September 15 it came into force. In total, the document contains 54 articles regulating the rights of children and the responsibilities of adults towards them.

International Children's Day is also unique in that it has its own flag. The planet Earth is depicted on a lush green background, around which there are colorful figures symbolizing children holding hands.

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Children's Day: history, traditions and facts

More than 60 countries around the world are starting summer season from the celebration of one of the oldest international dates- Children's Day. We talk about the origin of the holiday, traditions and symbol that unites children from all over the globe.

Children's Day began to be celebrated after the congress held in 1949, at which the International Democratic Federation of Women decided to ensure the well-being of the younger generation. Since then, the UN has considered the protection of the rights, life and health of children to be one of the main directions of its activities.

Entertainment events dedicated to this day are held in many countries. Children's drawing competitions are held in city parks. The children paint the asphalt with multi-colored chalk: portraits of mom and dad, clear sun and flowering meadows - everything that lives in a child’s imagination, and that is understandable without words to every little citizen of any country.

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The first International Children's Day was held on June 1, 1950.. Subsequently, the holiday began to be celebrated annually throughout the world. And the main legal document, which addresses children's rights at the international level, was the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the UN on November 20, 1989. The convention was signed by 61 countries, and in July 1990 it was approved by the USSR.

In Russia, children’s rights are regulated by the Federal Law “On Basic Guarantees of the Rights of the Child in Russian Federation" dated July 24, 1998. The law establishes the basic guarantees of the rights and interests of the child as prescribed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

Many schools and preschool institutions carry out sports, creative competitions, quizzes and other entertainment programs dedicated to the celebration of Children's Day. But to amuse the guys is not the main task holiday. All creative and cultural events on this day are designed to draw the attention of adults to pressing children's problems. The purpose of the holiday is to remind the state of respect for children’s rights to life, education and recreation; on protection from violence and exploitation child labor. It is no coincidence that in most countries childhood is considered one of the most important stages in a person’s life: it is during this happy period that the future citizen prepares for full interaction with society and lays the foundation for unlocking his creative and intellectual potential.

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In our country Children's Day has traditionally been celebrated for many years under the auspices of the Russian Children's Fund. The main guests of the holiday are usually orphans, disabled people and children from large families.

International Children's Day has its own flag. On a bright green background, which symbolizes harmony, growth and fertility, figures of children - white, yellow, red, blue and black - circle around the icon of the planet Earth. The boys' figures symbolize diversity and tolerance. And the emblem of the Earth, placed in the center, is our common home.

In Moscow, on June 1 and 2, for Children's Day, many parks prepared free events at 13 different sites in the city.

The Vorontsovo estate invites everyone to engage in art photography; excerpts from famous musicals will be presented in the Hermitage garden, and in Sadovniki Park they will show how ice cream is made using nitrogen.

A professional photographer will tell young talents how best to choose the right angle, create the composition of the frame and build the necessary lighting. In addition, he will teach everyone how to take photographs in the style of impressionist paintings.

At 12:00 dance lessons for young guests will begin. Children from three to six years old will learn the basics of ballet, and children from seven to 12 years old will learn classical dance.

Sports fans will be able to play basketball with coaches who will teach them basic techniques. The class will start at 16:00.

On June 2, a gala concert of the festival of children's musicals will take place in the Hermitage Garden. It will be held from 17:00 to 19:00, local residents and guests of the city will be shown fragments of 28 popular productions, among which the following should be highlighted: “ The Snow Queen", "Naughty Musical", "Nightingale the Robber & Co."

On June 1, from 12.00 to 18.00, free master classes on creating kaleidoscopes and paintings from colored sand will be held in Kuzminki. There will also be a soap bubble show for park visitors.

In addition, festive events will also take place in Gorky, Pobeda on Poklonnaya Hill, Fili, Perovsky, Babushkinsky, Lianozovsky, Tagansky and Krasnaya Presnya parks, as well as in the Bauman Garden.

On Children's Day, more than 70 festive events will be held in culture and recreation parks; according to the event organizers, more than 100 thousand people will visit them.

In the park of culture and recreation named after. L.. Tolstoy in Khimki the program “Rainbow of Childhood” will be presented. All guests will be greeted by animators and life-size puppets, as well as a children's brass band. The park will feature various interactive platforms. In Glukhovsky Park in Noginsk, visitors will be pleased with an extensive festive program.

For the little guests there will be a game program “Street of Joy” with competitions, performances by amateur artists and sweet gifts. The “Territory of Childhood” festival will take place in the park of culture and recreation in Noginsk; guests will be treated to interactive and sports programs, performances by amateur creative groups, competitions, disco and cartoon screening.

Venues where the events will take place

Every year, International Children's Day is celebrated on June 1st. This year, events dedicated to this day will be celebrated in:
— Gorky Park;
— Hermitage Garden;
— garden named after Bauman;
- Vorontsovo estate;
— Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill;
— Kuzminki park;
— Sadovniki park;
— Fili Park;
— Perovsky Park;
— Babushkinsky Park;
— Lianozovsky Park;
— Tagansky Park;
- Krasnaya Presnya Park.

On the first day of summer, International Children's Day is celebrated. This is not only one of the most happy holidays for children, but also a reminder to adults about what a wonderful time “childhood” is.
Cultural institutions of the Mariinsky municipal district held events dedicated to this holiday.

On June 1, the creative workers of the “KDO “Holiday”” for children attending Rehabilitation center for children and teenagers with disabilities, the game program “Country of Childhood” was held.
The boys and girls, together with the presenter, visited the “World of Fairy Tales”, where they took part in fun quiz“Guess the character”, cooked porridge together with the “White-sided Magpie”, collected the “Seven-flowered Flower” and made bouquets. With great pleasure, the children took part in such a delicious competition as “Straw”. It was almost impossible to refuse to participate in such competitions, because in addition to smiles and laughter, all children were generously given sweet prizes.
At the end of the holiday, each child who came to the holiday was given a balloon as a gift from individual entrepreneur Elena Prishchits.
Throughout the holiday, guests were delighted with their creativity by the vocal ensemble “Smiles” (director V.G. Golovchenko) and its soloists. With their lively performances, they gave everyone present a festive mood and positive emotions!
The holiday turned out to be kind, cheerful and memorable. The kids have summer holidays ahead and this event can be considered a bright start.

On June 1, a theatrical play program “Symbol of Peace and Goodness” took place at the Malopeschansky Rural House of Culture.
The theatrical character Lev Boniface from the cartoon "Boniface's Vacation" introduced the children to the "magic flower" that gives everyone good mood, peace and goodness. Boniface looked after the “magic flower”, watered it and guarded it so that the good mood would not disappear anywhere. But unexpectedly for everyone, Baba Yaga flew to visit him on a broomstick. Her broom broke and she turned to the guys for help to help her repair it vehicle. The children helped Baba Yaga and, with the help of magic words and dance, set up a magic broom. But as soon as the broom was adjusted and Baba Yaga made her flight, she unexpectedly tore off all the petals from the magic flower. Immediately it became sad, everyone around began to cry, Baba Yaga realized that she had done a bad deed. To correct the mistake and bring the flower back to life, Baba Yaga and Lev Boniface turned to the guys for help, who helped the flower become blooming again. To do this, they performed various tasks.
At the end of the theatrical program, Baba Yaga and Boniface thanked all the children for their help, congratulated them on the holiday, gave them sweet prizes and danced together around the flower, promising that they would definitely meet them again.

“Holiday of Happy Childhood” - under this name, on June 1, a festive program dedicated to Children’s Day was held at the Krasnoorlovsky rural House of Culture.
Participants in the event were children attending the summer school camp of the Krasnoorlovsk school and pupils kindergarten"Birch". The program is based on the motifs of Soviet-era cartoons beloved by all children.
On this wonderful day, the children were invited to visit the theatrical characters Masha, Misha and Old Woman Shapoklyak, who did not let anyone get bored. Children took part in games and competitions with pleasure and excitement: “All are friends in this hall”, “Funny people”, “Sunshine and rain”, “Boogie-Woogie” and others.
To "Hurray!" We met young performers of the “Na Bis” vocal studio and a member of the children’s folk group “Kudelka”, who performed playful ditties.
And although the first day of summer was not very hot, the children played, sang, danced with pleasure, for which they received sweet prizes and Balloons.
The final part of the program was a story dedicated to the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture “Suma - Give Us”, presented by the participants theater studio"Impromptu".
Children's holiday became a positive start to the long-awaited summer holiday. The guys received the positive emotions they needed for the summer.

On June 1, a childhood celebration dedicated to Children’s Day was held on the territory of the Belogorodsky SDK.
WITH congratulatory words The head of the rural settlement, Andrei Alekseevich Samsonov, addressed the children and their parents. Children took part in the concert and game program “Hello, Summer.” The main characters of the holiday were Jane the Pirate and Kind fairy. Mothers, grandmothers and fathers participated in games, competitions and dances with the children. While the children were drawing pictures on the asphalt, the parents took part in the quiz “Do you know fairy tales?” At the end of the holiday, all the children received sweet gifts from the sponsors - Elena Pavlovna Zemlyanitsina and Vera Vladimirovna Semeshko.

On June 1, the Kirsanovsky Leisure House hosted the game program “Summer Warmed by the Sun,” dedicated to Children’s Day. Clowns Tyutya and Putya, together with the children, played different games, shouted loudly and danced the cheerful dance “Lavata”, and then together they re-educated the evil Barmaley, who wanted to steal a chest with sweet prizes. After playing with the children, Barmaley became kind and cheerful and returned the chest to the children and treated all the children to sweet prizes.

On Children's Day, all the children who came to the Suslovsky House of Culture were greeted by cheerful colored Pencils, who played with the children in funny Games, guessed riddles, searched for treasure, and drew pictures on the asphalt with environmental themes. Throughout the holiday, music was played, those who came feasted on cotton candy and popcorn, conquered trampolines and mastered fantastic motorcycle technology.
This holiday marked the start of the summer game programs of the House of Culture. In June, the recreation center will host events for the children of the village.

Creative workers of the Pervomaisky House of Culture together with workers from the rural library held a festive game program"Childhood holiday, or day balloon», dedicated to the Day child protection.
The holiday was opened by cheerful presenters, and, of course, Summer. The presenters entertained the children with interesting competitions and outdoor games, and sang a song about summer. The children enjoyed participating in the competitions “Draw a Sun”, “Plant a Flowerbed”, “Rain”, and guessed riddles.
Upon completion happy holiday children from the theater group “Visiting a Fairy Tale” showed the fairy tale “Turnip”. The holiday ended with summing up the results and presenting sweet prizes.

On June 1, the Nikolaev SDK hosted a festive program “So much sun!” How much light!
Cartoon music played in the lobby. The theater group "Fidgets" showed the environmental fairy tale "Kolobok". Then the children traveled through a mysterious forest, where many interesting stations awaited them - “Solve the crossword puzzle,” “Cartoon questions,” “Cartoon friends,” “Recognize the voice.”
The holiday continued with a disco, and for young artists there was a competition for drawings on asphalt “This is our summer!”

On Children's Day at the Literary and Memorial House-Museum of V.A. Chivilikhin hosted a festive event “90 days of summer - around the world” for children living in the railway area.
The event began with watching cartoons from the Soyuzmultfilm film studio. After watching, the children answered quiz questions on Soviet cartoons, solved riddles and remembered their favorite characters.
After this, there was an educational excursion around the Nature Yard, and then, under the bright sun, the children drew a whole meadow of flowers on the asphalt, played yard games: “Potato”, “Ring”, “If you drive more slowly, the further you will go - stop”.
The event ended with wishes for a good holiday and a great summer mood.

On June 1, employees of the Museum "Birch Bark of Siberia" for school camp Gymnasium No. 2 "Solnyshko" held a game program "Let's hold hands."
The children got acquainted with the symbol of the holiday: on the green flag there is a symbol of the planet and five multi-colored figures around its circumference. The green background symbolizes fertility, growth and harmony, the planet is the common home of all children, and the colorful figures symbolize tolerance and diversity.
Various competitions and relay races were selected for schoolchildren. Schoolchildren answered fairy-tale quiz questions, guessed riddles, and took part in competitions: “Ants,” developing patience and ingenuity, built towers out of cubes; “Accurate”, testing dexterity and accuracy; “Spider”, weaving a web at speed.
The game program “Let's Hold Hands” was accompanied by music from Soviet cartoons.
At the end of the event, all participants were awarded sweet prizes.

The Blagoveshchensk Rural House of Culture hosted a competition and game program for the holiday “ Magic world childhood", which included entertainment program with the participation of animators, fun games with Dunno and Carlson, competitions and gifts.
The organizers gave all the guests of the holiday fun and a great mood. The Children's Day holiday turned out to be bright and interesting.
At the end of the holiday, all the boys and girls left their wishes on the Wish Ball, which flew into the sky, but will definitely return with a dream realized.

On the first day of summer, a traditional holiday dedicated to International Children's Day was held at the Kalinin SDK. For several hours, the House of Culture turned into a large and joyful “Magic Land”, where many surprises awaited the children.

The guests of the holiday were greeted by the cartoon character Lyolik and the earthly girl Bianca. They invited everyone to visit the planet Barbarella, where the children met the cheerful and friendly Barbarikas - Bonya, Baz and Bibi. Bibi said that each of them has a little friend on earth, and when night falls, they return back home to Barbarella. And today, in honor of the Barbariki holiday, they invited all the children to meet him with them in the “Magic Land”. The guys, together with the heroes of the program, sang many funny songs, performed fiery dances, and played various games.
But the celebration didn't end there. Dividing into groups, the children went to different corners of the “Magic Land”. The guys visited the room of Russian life “Russian Izba” with craftswoman T.N. Nedoseeva, where they learned to make beautiful butterflies from fabrics. In the Kalinin rural library, a fairy tale quiz called “Fairy Tale Carousel” was held for children.
For children younger age An entertaining game program “The Adventures of the Brush” took place. During the entire event, young artists performed vocal and dance numbers on the stage of the Palace of Culture. All guests of the holiday received sweet prizes as gifts. The celebration continued with drawings on the asphalt and a disco.

On June 1, creative workers of the Primetkinsky Leisure House and Library held a game program for children “Rainbow of the Planet of Childhood.”
The guys found themselves in a land of fun, light, warmth and good mood.
Interesting games and competitions left no one indifferent. Divided into teams “Sunny” and “Summer”, the guys competed in ingenuity and dexterity. The atmosphere of competition and the spirit of rivalry aroused great delight and admiration among the children. At all stages the guys strived for victory. They jumped, ran, guessed riddles with great interest and shouted cheerful chants.
In the end, friendship won. The holiday ended with the presentation of sweet prizes. On this day, all the guys received a lot of emotions and impressions.