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Presidents Day History and Facts
President’s Day, contrary to its name didn’t really celebrate presidents in general. It instead was originally Washington’s birthday at the first and he was to some people the greatest president of the U.S. However, later on people started celebrating Lincoln’s birthday as well, and since they were both in the same month various states just decided to hold a celebration that combined the two days. This had various different names until around the 1980’s when it generally became known as President’s Day. However, this is not always the case, in some states such as in Virginia Washington’s home state, where it is still legally called George Washington’s Day. Other states do use it as a general purpose holiday to celebrate any president they happen to deem important, usually ones that came from the state in question.
Well, all that confusion aside, this is a fairly easy holiday to celebrate. Since not everyone agrees as to just whom to celebrate on this Presidents Day you instead can simply celebrate the patriotic nature of the holiday. Anything traditionally associated with America is a good bet including flags, red, white, and blue colors, starts, stripes, politically natural posters, and the like are all good ideas. If you want you could even put up a wall scroll with all the presidents on it. As a final touch anything that shows the history of your community or country that has a long heritage can also be used though it’s not nearly as popular.
With any party there are of course things you can purchase to make things easier, such as paper plates, plastic cups and utensils, as well as table covers. These things are all but necessary for after party clean up, and can be easily found for this particular Presidents Day patriotic theme. Other things you can use to celebrate this day are top hats with stars and stripes, colored balloons, star shaped candles,voting buttons and a large variety of others.
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