Today is…Mitten Tree Day
Mitten Tree Day most likely came to be as a result of Candace Christiansen’s children’s book, Mitten Tree. It is a book about an elderly lady who watches children gathering at a bus stop each morning. She notices a boy that doesn’t have mittens and decides she will knit some and put them in a nearby evergreen tree for him to find. She begins knitting mittens each night, and the children begin looking for new mittens each morning. Some organizations, museums, and schools celebrate the day by reading the story, and by then having children cut out mittens from construction paper to decorate a cardboard tree with. Instead of using a fake tree and mittens, real mittens could be donated by children, and they could be hung on a real tree on the day, and then given to someone in need.
Today’s Great Stories
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- Dog sniffs out owner’s cancer, not once, but three times
- Engineer Creates Smartphone App That Screens for Anemia By Taking Pictures of Your Fingernails
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- Stranger Fixes Woman’s Car So She Can Get Daughter Home From Hospital
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- Ithaca women turn $12,500 in donations into $1.5 million of debt relief
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- Mother reunites with daughter after 69 years apart: ‘It’s a Christmas miracle’
- Barbara Streb, a chairwoman on the Humane Society’s Christmas Bazaar Board, said there are no vendors at the event. Instead, all of the items for sale were handmade by volunteers, so all the profits go straight to the shelter.
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- Boy, 9, petitions Colorado town board to throw first legal snowball in more than 100 years
- Tennessee State linebacker on miraculous recovery: ‘GOD is good all the time’
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- Watch Student’s Hilarious Reaction to Being Pranked With a Room Full of Presents
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