February 2020 National Days
Fun Classroom Activity: Host Your Own Academy Awards
January 13, 2020
Beauty Bash Bonanza
February 10, 2020
To commemorate February, Black History Month, encourage students to research and study African-American industry icons, influencers and celebrities. Have a day set aside where students can present their reports.
February 1st – National Get Up Day. This is a day to celebrate stories of perseverance. Today encourage those students who are struggling with a goal or task to get back up and keep going! Look for YouTube videos that show people doing the same. Here is one of my favorites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qNU-lvPXKw
February 3rd – National Day the Music Died. Today simply play some Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens music.
February 4th – National Thank a Mail Carrier Day. Offer a free service such as a pedicure or massage to your mail carrier and say thank you for all they do.
February 7th – National Wear Red Day. This day is set aside to raise awareness of heart disease and strokes in women. Here is a link for more information.
February 9th – National Pizza Day. What more is there to say? Order some pizzas and have a party with your students.
February 11th – National Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk Day. Today is a day to think positive. Find the bright side of things and don’t stress about the little things. Talk with your students and ask them to share all the positive things going on in their education.
February 14th – Valentine’s Day. Salon and spa treatments are great gifts for Valentine’s Day. I found this blog for promotional ideas for the student salon on Valentine’s Day. https://www.cosmoprofbeauty.com/Blog/promo-ideas-for-valentines-day-jan18.html
February 17th – National Random Acts of Kindness Day. Take this day as an opportunity to really focus on the importance of customer service.
February 19th – National Lash Day. Ask a guest speaker to come in and speak to your students or offer training to your students on lashes. If lashes are services you provide in your student salon, offer specials to promote the love and need for false eyelashes.
February 22nd – National Margarita Day. I’m all up for a fun afternoon break for your students. Make virgin margaritas, have multiple flavors and have some afternoon fun!
February 28th – National Floral Design Day. Today have students practice their best updos and incorporate flowers as ornamentation. Have your nail students practice their best floral design nail art.
February 29th – Leap Day. That is right, it is a leap year. In 2020, we have one whole extra day to get things done.
Here are some ideas for leap day:
- Have students sit down and write themselves a letter that they will not open until the next leap day, four years later. Encourage them to write about their goals and dreams. What are they excited about achieving over the next four years? Either allow them to keep the letter and have them promise not to open it until 2024, or you collect the letters and in January 2024 mail the letters to them.
- Try something new. Do something that you have never done before or have been too scared to try in the past! It’s an extra day; take advantage.
- Spend the day “leaping into gratitude.” Have sticky notes and markers available and encourage the students and staff to take time throughout the day to drop notes to different people letting them know how grateful they are to have that person around. Have students write a note to the person and then post it on their mirror, desk, locker, etc. Simply spend the day showing a little bit of EXTRA love!
- Play leapfrog with a twist. You all know the classic kids’ game leapfrog. This is where everyone gets in a line, crouches down, and the last kid in line jumps up and starts to leap over each kid to get to the front of the line. Let’s play Leap Station. Set up stations for the number of students playing. At each station, set up a different technical skill. One station would be a perm, one would be finger waves, one would be pin curls, one would be nail polish, etc. Create a card at each station that explains the client and the service they are receiving. Assign one student to each station. When you begin, have the student pick up the card, read the technical skill and then begin work on that technical skill. Time students for two to three minutes and then signal it is time to “leap” to the next station. They all leap (rotate), read the card for that station and pick up where the other student left off.
