Red Nose Day Activities For Kids 2024
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Red Nose Day 2024 will be held on Friday 17th March.
What Is Red Nose Day?
Red Nose Day is an fundraising event run by the charity Comic Relief, to raise money for people in the UK and around the world, to tackle the most pressing issues of the moment.
The British charity Comic Relief was founded in 1985 to raise money to help those affected by famine in Ethiopia in the wake of the Band Aid single and Live Aid concert. The first Red Nose Day was held in 1988 and included a comedy telethon broadcast on BBC 1, and money was raised from the sale of red noses.
Since then it has been held every other year and the purpose of the fundraising has widened its scope to include the UK and all other parts of the world.
The current fundraising efforts are focussed on child poverty and safety, helping those adversely affected by Covid-19, projects to address racial and gender equality, homelessness and mental health problems.
Since 2022 Comic Relief has been held each year in mid-March. Here are some cool fun ideas for celebrating Comic relief, including red Nose games, recipes and crafts.
How Can I Support Comic Relief?
So how can you support Comic Relief's fundraising on Red Nose Day?
- Buy a Red Nose
- Make A Donation
- Buy Red Nose Day Merch
- Hold Your Own Red Nose Day Fundraiser
In 2024 official Comic Relief red nose shown above is available from Amazon.co.uk and cost £2.00 each.
Amazon are also selling official Red Nose Day merch including badges, water bottles, dog bandanas, kids hats and paper tissues.
Donate at comicrelief.com. 100% of the money donated by the public is given to good causes - the charity's running costs are covered by corporate donations and the interest on donations accrued while money is waiting to be spent.
Image Credit: ©TKMaxx
Each Red Nose Day there is a new collection of limited edition merchandise produced, and this year they feature Aardman Animation's Wallace and Grommit and everyone's favourite clay man, Morph.
Items available include T-Shirts, mugs, plushes, tote bags, water bottles and notebooks. They can be bought at branches of TK Maxx or online at tkmaxx.com.
You could organise a could be a comedy-a-thon, a cake sale, a sponsored walk, or do anything you want to raise money for Comic Relief.
Red Nose Day Crafts, Recipes & Games Ideas
Here are some fun crafts and activities for Red Nose Day.
- The Red Nose Day website always has fun ideas for fundraising. There will be a downloadable fundraising pack, filled with ideas in advance of the event.
- Play & Learn Every Day have ten clever ideas for using your red noses to play 10 different games including a nose and spoon race, nose toss game and nose bobbing!
- Baking Mad have this tasty recipe for Red Nose Cupcakes, which is quick and easy to make.
- Make some Red Nose Day Shortbread with this recipe from BBC Food for homemade jammy dodgers with built in red noses. Decorate with eyes and a smile!
- Make A Red Pom Pom with these instructions from Vintage Toys Blogs.
- Watch sketches from previous year's Red Nose Day and trailers for the next one on the Comic Relief: Red Nose Day Official YouTube Channel.
- Make this yummy-looking Red Nose Day Chocolate Bark with funny faces made from red Smarties and edible eyes.
- This is probably not one for kids to make, but any adult would be a Red Nose Day star with this Gruffalo With A Red Nose Cake designed by cake maker extrordinaire Jane Asher.
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We've got our very own Red Nose Day Free Printable Wordsearch. Download it now for even more Red Nose Day fun!
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