Activity Ideas

Here’s how National Wooden Spoon Day (Wednesday 19 March 2025) can be celebrated with creativity and fun activities: 

Wear Wooden Spoon-Themed Apparel 

  • Wooden Spoon Socks: Encourage participants to wear socks with wooden spoon stripes. 
  • Wooden Spoon Pins: Distribute pins or badges shaped like wooden spoons to participants. 
  • Wooden Spoon Hats: Encourage participants to wear hats with wooden spoon logo. 

Organise Fun and Competitive Events 

  • Wooden Spoon Rugby Match: Host a charity rugby game. 
  • Spoon Relay Race: Organise races where participants balance items (e.g., eggs, balls) on wooden spoons while running. 
  • Spoon-Themed Scavenger Hunt: Hide wooden spoons in a park or venue and have teams compete to find them, with clues and riddles related to rugby, the charity or wooden spoons. 

Baking and Cooking Activities 

  • Wooden Spoon Cake Bake: Host a baking competition. 
  • Spoonful of Joy Bake Sale: Sell baked goods donating proceeds to a charity. 

Art and Craft Activities 

  • Decorate Wooden Spoons: Provide plain wooden spoons for participants to paint, carve, or decorate, turning them into unique art pieces. 
  • Spoon Puppetry: Host a workshop where participants make puppets out of wooden spoons and perform mini skits. 

Raise Awareness or Support Causes 

  • Spoon It Forward: Use the day to encourage donations to soup kitchens or food banks or local children’s projects in your area. 

Engage in Themed Challenges 

  • Wooden Spoon Selfies: Start a social media challenge where people post creative selfies in your Wooden Spoon attire, using a hashtag like #WoodenSpoonDay. 
  • Most Creative Spoon or Rugby: Challenge participants to find unusual ways to use wooden spoons or Rugby in daily life and share their ideas online. 

This mix of playful and meaningful activities ensures that National Wooden Spoon Day is memorable and engaging for all ages!