Some other designations for January that you might be interested in are:

• Celebration of Life Month
• National Thank You Month
• National Get Organized Month
• National Glaucoma Awareness Month
• National Volunteer Blood Donor Month
• National Personal Self-Defense Month
• National Book Month
• January 1st: New Years Day
• January 2nd: National Science Fiction Day
• January 3rd: Festival of Sleep
• January 4th: Tennis Day
• January 5th: Take the Cake Day
• January 5th: Bird Day
• January 6th: Apple Tree Day
• January 8th: World Literacy Day
• January 8th: National Clean Off Your Desk Day
• January 9th: National Static Electricity Day
• January 9th: National Apricot Day
• January 10th: Volunteer Fireman's Day
• January 11th: Amelia Earhart Day
• January 14th: National Dress Up Your Pet Day
• January 15th: Hat Day
• January 16th: National Fig Newton Day
• January 17th: Ben Franklin's Birthday
• January 18th: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• January 19th: National Popcorn Day
• January 20th: Basketball Day
• January 21st: Hugging Day
• January 22nd: National Blonde Brownie Day
• January 23rd: National Pie Day
• January 24th: National Peanut Butter Day
• January 25th: First Winter Olymics Began
• January 26th: National Peanut Brittle Day
• January 27th: National Chocolate Cake Day
• January 28th: National Blueberry Pancake Day
• January 29th: Carnation Day
• January 30th: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday
• January 31st: Jackie Robinson's Birthday

Team up with a local school and bring in some area musicians. Choose someone to play something with a Latin-American flavor and give all the kids logoed mini maracas so they can play along. Provide school kids with pencils molded in the shape of G-clefts or use other music oriented logoed merchandise to distribute to school kids either through the schools or at your place of business in connection with a music in school program.

Some other designations for March that you might be interested in are:

• National Nutrition Month
• Music in Our Schools Month
• American Red Cross Month
• Honor Society Awareness Month
• Poison Prevention Awareness Month
• March 2nd: National Banana Cream Pie Day
• March 3rd: National Anthem Day
• March 4th: National Poundcake Day
• March 5th: Stop the Clocks Day
• March 6th: National Chocolate Cheesecake Day
• March 8th: Farmer's Day
• March 9th: Barbie's Birthday
• March 10th: Harriet Tubman Day
• March 13th: Uncle Sam's Birthday
• March 14th: Daylight Savings Time
• March 15th: Beware the Ides of March
• March 16th: National Artichoke Hearts Day
• March 17th: St. Patrick's Day
• March 18th: Pillsbury Doughboy's Birthday
• March 19th: National Agriculture Day
• March 20th: Spring Equinox
• March 21st: Children's Poetry Day
• March 23rd: National Energy Education Day
• March 24th: Harry Houdini's Birthday
• March 28th: Palm Sunday
• March 29th: Coco Cola Invented
• March 30th: Passover
• March 31st: Tater Day

• Play off of the idea of "being grilled" or "raked over hot coals" and help your clients "stay out of the fire." Use imprinted barbeque items from hot mitts to grilling accessories.
• Hold grilling cook offs to draw traffic and build customers. Offer grills and accessories like tools and spices as prizes. Grills range from standard grills in all sizes to grills shaped like footballs to beer kegs.

Some other designations for July that you might be interested in are:

• Cell Phone Courtesy Month
• National Black Family Month
• National Blueberries Month
• National Hot Dog Month
• July 1st: Canada Day
• July 2nd: National Literacy Day
• July 3rd: Eat Beans Day
• July 4th: Independence Day (U.S.)
• July 5th: Alice in Wonderland Day
• July 6th: Fill An Aquarium Day
• July 7th: Chocolate Day
• July 9th: Sugar Cookie Day
• July 10th: Don't Step on a Bee Day
• July 11th: Swimming Pool Day
• July 12th: Etch-a-sketch invented
• July 13th: International Puzzle Day
• July 14th: Pick Blueberries Day
• July 15th: Winnie the Pooh Day
• July 16th: Fresh Spinach Day
• July 17th: Disneyland Opened, 1955
• July 18th: Cow Day
• July 19th: Flitch Day
• July 20th: Apollo 11 Landing on Moon
• July 21st: Monkey Day
• July 22nd: Lion's Share Day
• July 23rd: Ice Cream Cone Day
• July 24th: Parents Day
• July 25th: Merry-Go-Round Day
• July 26th: Sugar Cane Day
• July 27th: Bugs Bunny Day
• July 28th: Hamburger Day
• July 29th: Rocket Day
• July 30th: Deviled Eggs Day
• July 31st: Jump For Jellybeans Day

Some other designations for September that you might be interested in are:

• Baby Safety Month
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Month
• Fall Hat Month
• Library Card Sign-Up Month
• September 1st: Emma Nut Day
• September 2nd: Pop Top Day
• September 3rd: Lost Days Day
• September 4th: Newspaper Carrier Day
• September 5th: Housekeepers Day
• September 6th: Labor Day (U.S. & Canada)
• September 7th: Rain Nor Snow Day
• September 8th: Left Right Day
• September 9th: Jewish New Year
• September 11th: Tweety Bird Day
• September 12th: Grandparent's Day
• September 13th: Defy Superstition Day
• September 14th: Cream-filled Donut Day
• September 15th: Chicken Lovers Day
• September 18th: Yom Kippur
• September 19th: Homemade Pudding Day
• September 22nd: Dear Diary Day
• September 23rd: Fall Equinox
• September 24th: Little League Day
• September 25th: Comic Book Day
• September 26th: Acorn Squash Day
• September 27th: Answering Machine Day
• September 28th: Drink a Beer Day
• September 29th: Office Olympics Day
• September 30th: Chewing Gum Day

• Adopt a first-grade in a school or schools and provide a book for each child along with an imprinted pillow so they can make a cozy reading nook. Imprint the pillow with your company name and logo and a phrase about reading such as, "You can go anywhere in a book." Include imprinted book plates in all of the books.
• Create a business-to-business promotion around National Book Month. Use copy to the effect, "You won't have to read between the lines if you do business with us. Book a sales presentation today and you'll receive a complete set of ...(you fill in a book set)."
• Hold a family read-a-thon. Give away imprinted book sleeves, book marks, etc.

Some other designations for October that you might be interested in are:

• National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• National Book Month
• National Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month
• National Crime Prevention Month
• National Dental Hygene Month
• October 1st: World Vegetarian Day
• October 2nd: Child Health Day
• October 3rd: Music Lovers Day
• October 4th: Golf Lovers Day
• October 5th: Apple Facts Day
• October 6th: Bake Biscuits Day
• October 7th: Ripe Pumpkin Day
• October 8th: Wall Paper Day
• October 9th: Hispanic Heritage Day
• October 10th: Wild Life Day
• October 11th: Columbus Day (U.S.)
• October 11th: Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
• October 13th: 13 Phobia Day
• October 14th: Honey Bee Day
• October 15th: Sewing Lovers Day
• October 16th: Hot Oatmeal Day
• October 17th: Shoe Size Day
• October 18th: Watch A Squirrel Day
• October 19th: Eat Pasta Day
• October 20th: Adopt a Dog Day
• October 21st: Caramel Apple Day
• October 22nd: Eat a Pretzel Day
• October 23rd: Candy Corn Day
• October 24th: Black Cat Day
• October 26th: Jack-o Lantern Day
• October 27th: Wicked Witch Day
• October 28th: Ghost Busters Day
• October 29th: Dracula Bites Day
• October 30th: Frankenstein Monster Day
• October 31st: Halloween

• Invite employees and customers to participate in World Kindness Day by doing random acts of kindness. Provide bowls of fortune cookies with suggested acts of kindness inside, or gum imprinted with acts of kindness, etc., for people to choose from.
• Give customers or clients almost any imprinted item as an act of kindness on November 13.

• American Diabetes Month
• National Adoption Month
• Lung Cancer Awareness Month
• November 1st: National Family Literacy Day®
• November 1st: Daylight Savings Time ends
• November 2nd: Cookie Monster Day
• November 3rd: Cliché Day
• November 4th: Election Day
• November 4th: Use Your Common Sense Day
• November 6th: National Men Make Dinner Day
• November 11th: Veterans Day
• November 11th: Rememberance Day (Canada)
• November 12th - 18th: Children's Book Week
• November 13th: World Kindness Day
• November 13th - 19th: Children's Book Week
• November 14th: National American Teddy Bear Day
• November 15th: America Recycles Day
• November 16th: National Adoption Day
• November 17th: Homemade Bread Day
• November 18th: Mickey Mouse's Birthday
• November 19th: "Have a Bad Day" Day
• November 20th: Name Your PC Day
• November 21st: World Television Day
• November 23rd: You're Welcomegiving Day
• November 26th: Thanksgiving Day
• November 27th: Black Friday
• November 29th: Electronic Greetings Day
• November 30th: Computer Security Day

• Hold a contest for new cookie cutter designs or other uses for cookie cutters besides cookies. Draw people into your place of business to pick up entry forms and again for the awarding of prizes. Use imprinted kitchen items as prizes.
• Use cookie cutter week as a backdrop for business-to-business promotions based on the negative connotation of cookie cutter. The idea is that your product or service isn't "cookie cutter." Include shapes appropriate to your industry or business or have custom shapes made to be sent in direct mail pieces.

Some other designations for December that you might be interested in are:

• AIDS Awareness Month
• National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month
• National Safe Toys and Gifts Month
• National Tie Month
• December 1st - 7th: Cookie Cutter Week
• December 1st: World AIDS Day
• December 2nd: Special Education Day
• December 4th: National Dice Day
• December 6th: National Day of Remembrance (Canada)
• December 6th: Action on Violence Against Women (Canada)
• December 7th: Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
• December 11th: Anniversary of the Statute of Westminster (Canada)
• December 12th: Hanukkah
• December 10th: Human Rights Day
• December 12th: Poinsettia Day
• December 15th: Cat Herders Day
• December 15th - 29th: Halcyon Days
• December 16th: Barbie and Barney Backlash Day
• December 17th: Wright Brothers Day
• December 21st: December Solstice
• December 21st: National Haiku Poetry Day
• December 21st: First Day of Winter
• December 22nd: World Peace Day
• December 25th: Christmas
• December 26th: Kwanzaa
• December 26th: Boxing Day
• December 28th: No Interruptions Day
• December 31st: New Year's Eve