29
Apr
Zipper Day is celebrated on April 29 to remember the day the zipper was invented. A zipper is a tool we use every day to connect things like your jacket or backpack. Before zippers, people used buttons and hooks to close clothes and bags, which took longer. The zipper was created to make life easier by quickly opening and closing things. It works by sliding a tiny piece up and down to bring two sides together or take them apart. Zipper Day helps us appreciate this small but important invention that helps us in many ways every day.
How to celebrate Zipper Day?
On Zipper Day, you can have fun by wearing clothes with zippers and counting how many zippers you have on you. Try decorating your room with paper zippers you make with colored paper and tape. Challenge your friends to a zipper race to see who can zip and unzip their jackets the fastest. You can also draw pictures of zippers in different colors or make a zipper bracelet with beads. Bake cookies that look like zippers with your family. Listen to the funny sound of zippers zipping up and down, and at bedtime, read a story featuring a zipper adventure.
Where Zipper Day is celebrated?
- - International
