Teddy Bear Picnic Day is celebrated on July 10, 2016. Take your Teddy Bear and eat a meal outdoors, ideally taking place in a beautiful landscape such as a park, beside a lake or with an interesting view. Picnics are often family-oriented but can also be an intimate occasion between two people or a large get-together.
During the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt was in office as President of the United States. He was a hunter. While hunting in Mississippi in 1902, he refused to shoot a small bear. The Washington Post picked up on this story, and made a cartoon of the event. Toy store owners, Morris and Rose Michtom, wrote to President Roosevelt for permission to call their stuffed animals "Teddy Bears". Teddy bears became wildly popular.
Spend the lunch hour on a blanket under a shade tree with your Teddy Bear.
