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25.05.2015 // International Missing Children Day

This day every year the world observes the International Missing Children Day. The date originates from the USA, where on this day in 1979 the 6-year old boy missed on his way home from school. The searches were not successful and 4 years later the President of the USA Ronald Reagan claimed this day the National Day of Missing Children, and one year later they established the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, NCMEC. Soon such an initiative was introduced in a number of European countries and in 1997 the International Center was organized. The latter set the date and gave the International status to the event. The symbol of the day is blue forget-me-not flower.
The missing kid is a real world disaster, and a crushing sorrow for parents. It’s impossible to imagine something worse than this incident. According to the statistics, annually millions of children missed around the Globe and every year the figures increase.

Ranok-Creative call everyone upon to be respondent and make every effort to help!

21.05.2015 // World Day for Cultural Diversity

15.05.2015 // International Day of Families

Annually on 15 May the International Day of Families is observed. It was proclaimed by UN General Assembly in 1993 with special resolution, showing that family is quite important unit within the world society.  On this day all efforts are aimed to give everyone the opportunity to become more aware in family issues and get the solution for some pending problems. Lots of theme trainings, workshops, conferences, radio and television broadcasts, newspaper articles and cultural programmes highlight the important questions to the wide public. The main purpose of celebrating the International Day of Families in 2015 is to promote gender equality and rights of children within families.

Ranok-Creative Company actively helps families to bring some diversity in their children’s lives and defends their rights to be well-educated. We steadily work on designing and launching of new sets, which will afterwards come in you homes and make your kids much happier, encouraging their all-round development. We have already distinguished three main series, which we all the time enrich with new and new projects. Every parent can get the information on all the sets, presented in Science Games, Kits for Girls and Kits for Creativity Series. We are doing our best to assist parents in children’s education and making their way of learning science much easier. Series for girls is constantly enlarged with newly-introduced sets, which allow girls to take care of their beauty and make cosmetics, manicure and decoration by themselves.  An impressing range of sets for creativity will please every, even the most choosy kid.

Have fun and wish you happy Family Day!

09.05.2015 // Victory Day

01.05.2015 // May Day

1 May is mainly referred to the achievement of labour movement. This holiday is also known as Labour Day or International Worker’s Day. Soviet countries may also celebrate it as the Day of the International Solidarity of Workers.

This date is used as in 1884 the American Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demanded an eight-hour workday, to come in force from 1 May 1886. This resulted in the general strike and the Haymarket Riot of 1886. Nevertheless the regulation was accepted and introduced.
1 May is celebrated as May Day in most countries around the world. In some countries the date may vary, still this date is recognized globally.

Ranok-Creative wish you all Happy Labour Day!

22.04.2015 // Earth Day

Every year on 22 April millions of people celebrate the Earth Day. This is a special date, devoted to demonstrate that humans are worrying about their natural home and give all their strengths to protect the environment.
The origin of this holiday dates back to 1970, when the first demonstrations took place. Initially it was proposed by a peace activist John McConnell to first be celebrated on March 21, 1970 and later founded  by the United States Senator, Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970.

Now it is observed in 192 countries, and coordinated by the nonprofit Earth Day Network.
Ranok-Creative congratulates everyone on this date and invites to make every day Earth Day. Let’s teach our younger generation to save the nature and protect the environment like the apple of their eye. Let’s show them, that this is our big home and we should behave in the same way as we are taught in our houses. Let’s celebrate this day in a traditional way, planting trees, picking up roadside trash, conducting various programs for recycling and conservation, making the best we can for the environment.

18.04.2015 // Pet Owners Day

On 18 April dogs and cats owners observes the holiday of their pets. On this day it's supposed that owners can relax and take rest, meanwhile their little friends should "take over" their duties and do the job.

Ranok-Creative offers all pets owners to relax and have fun with your "family members" - walk, arrange a kind of a picnic so to have a great fun. A specially designed set Pet's Paw will be a unforgettable pastime for both you and a memorable gift. The set includes everything you may need in the process, moreover a detailed instruction will help you to make everything in a right order.

 Have fun!

05.04.2015 // Easter Sunday

On Sunday, April 5th, the Catholic world celebrates Easter Day in 2015, a week after this day Orthodox Christian will welcome the feast.
The symbol of this day is considered to be coloured eggs. They are dedicated on Easter Eve along with the rest of ceremonial food. A lot of different amusements are popular involving these dedicated eggs on Easter Day: kids can compete in breaking eggs on each other so to see whose egg remains uncracked and brings the victory to its owner, they can also hunt them, present to the relatives and closest friends etc. Not less traditional than eggs Easter Bunny is considered to be a gift, symbolizing wealth and fertility. The custom of presenting a bunny made from sweets, first emerged in Germany in 16th century, afterwards it spread along the rest of European countries and was welcomed in the USA.
 In different countries various local traditions are accepted, so in Australia chocolate and sugar eggs are extremely popular on Easter, not less chocolate bunny and bilby (an animal resembling a fat mouse) are accepted as gifts. On this day traditionally fried mutton and beef are the meal, served for dinner. In the morning Australians at church tastes sweet hot buns (called “Hot Cross Ban”).
In Germany, as well as the rest of Europe, coloured eggs and Easter Bunnies are accepted as gifts. Kids like hunting the eggs, which "were hidden" by the Easter Bunny according to the tradition. Also Germans decorate the windows and doors of their house with the Easter wreaths, made of green tree branches, flowers, ribbons and chocolates in bright wraps. They present relatives with dedicated wreaths, not food.
English Monarch traditionally gives to different people so many golden coins as his age is on Holy Thursday. This custom is 500 years old, in ancient times the King presented those in need with clothes. English people have freshly baked buns (with raisins or candied fruit), decorated with the Cross for breakfast. They adorn their houses and festive tables with flowers, mainly lilies. The best presents are coloured eggs and chocolate bunnies.
In Greece, a week before the holiday they start their preparations, visiting churches and organizing everything for this day. They hallow the eggs which should be coloured afterwards and the leaven for tsoureki (Easter buns of circle or cross shape) on Holy Wednesday. The sacred procession in Greece is not like processions in other countries. All participants stroll not around the temple, but along the city streets, singing and holding burning candles, heading for the main square, where they symbolically burn Judah in many thousand public sights. 
Ukrainians as well start preparing for this holiday a couple of days before. They clean their houses, decorate them with flowers and greenery.  The night into the Easter Day, people visit the public worship, sticking to church canons and after that having their meal dedicated, go home to have a holy breakfast. On this day the hostesses prepare as many dishes as they can to welcome the day of resurrection of Jesus Christ, thus the end of the fasting and please their guests.

Ranok-Creative congratulates everyone on this great holiday and wish you to celebrate this Easter with a heart full of love and peace!!!

01.04.2015 // yaD 'slooF lirpA

Catcha! Today is April Fools’ Day or how it’s also called All Fools’ Day. It is one of the most light-hearted days throughout the year.

The origin of this day is unclear, some refers it to the change of seasons, some to the peculiarities of date celebrating. Still the earliest notes date back to 14 century. This day everyone is officially allowed to make jokes and hoaxes on one another. Practices include sending someone on a "fool's errand," looking for things that don't exist; playing pranks; and trying to get people to believe ridiculous things.

In Italy, France, Belgium, and French-speaking areas of Switzerland and Canada, 1 April tradition is often known as "April fish" (poissons d'avril in French or pesce d'aprile in Italian). It usually supposes to tape a picture of a fish on the back of their “April fool”, crying "Poisson d'Avril" when the prank is discovered. In Poland, prima aprilis ("1 April" in Latin) is a day full of jokes; various hoaxes are prepared by people, media (which sometimes cooperate to make the "information" more credible) and even public institutions. Danes, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians and Swedes celebrate April Fools' Day (aprilsnar in Danish). They believe most news media outlets will publish exactly one false story on 1 April; for newspapers this will typically be a first-page article but not the top headline.

The Internet sites are full of different information and suggestions as how to play somebody up and make fun.

Ranok-Creative wish you all be in good mood and not to get disappointed in any way!

27.03.2015 // Daylight Saving Time

These weekends almost all the countries, which still observe the Daylight saving time, will put the clock one hour forward. This tradition was firstly introduced in Great Britain in 1908. On general the changes for summer time is made to rationally use daylight and economize the electricity.
However some countries have already rejected this tradition and don’t change their time. Around 161 countries, including China, India and Japan, throughout the World stick only to one time, so called winter time. They have refused to "play" with time due to different reasons. The majority after holding some experiments has claimed that the reasonability of these actions is faint, as the saved electricity is used and even overused while putting the clock hands back for winter time. Moreover doctors say that this process affect people’s health harmfully, changing their biorhythms, damaging organisms, causing the increase of heart attacks and hypertension incidents, problems with sleep-wakefulness pattern, working performance degradation etc.
Nevertheless approximately 76 countries together with Canada, the USA, Israel are still involved in this process and experience annually the time changing.
Ranok-Creative advises no to forget to set the clock 1 hour ahead overnight into 29 March so to be in tune with the times