Remembrance Day is observed in Commonwealth nations to honor armed forces members who have died in duty. It is marked annually on November 11th at 11am with a two-minute silence to remember those lost in wars. People wear poppies, which grew on World War I battlefields, as a sign of remembrance. Poppies are made by cutting red tissue paper into petal shapes and attaching them around a central black pom pom or folded paper onto a green-taped stick. The two-minute silence tradition began in 1919 when King George V asked the public to silently honor those who died in World War I.

1. RemembranceDay

2. What is remembrance day
• Remembrance Day also called poppy day, is a memorial day observed
in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World
War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died
in the line of duty.
• It marks the day World War One ended, at 11am on the 11th day of
the 11th month, in 1918.
• A two-minute silence is held at 11am to remember the people who
have died in wars.
• There is also Remembrance Sunday every year, which falls on the
second Sunday in November.
• This year, it fell on Sunday 11th November.

3. Why do we hold a two-minute silence?
The first two-minute silence in Britain was held on 11
November 1919, when King George V asked the public
to observe a silence at 11am. This was one year after the
end of World War One.
He made the request so “The thoughts of everyone may
be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the
glorious dead".

4. Why do we wear poppies?
• The reason poppies are used to remember those who have
given their lives in battle is because they are the flowers which
grew on the battlefields after World War One ended. Every year
people volunteer to help make poppies and sell them around to
raise donations and all the donations go to men and women
who fought in the war, who are still alive, whose lives were
effected by the war

5. How to make a poppy – tissue paper poppy
1) First make a template out
of card in the shape of a
lightbulb in a way and cut it
out. This will make it easier to
cut your petals equally.
2) Get red tissue paper
and fold it continuously
and then cut around
the template card you
cut before.
3) Grab a glue stick and
the ice lolly stick and
you can either use a
black pompom or fold
black tissue paper fro
the flowers bud.
You will need:
• Scissors
• Card
• Ice lolly stick
• Red tissue paper
• Black pompom
• Glue stick
• Green tape/green
tissue paper

6. How to make a poppy – tissue paper poppy
4) Continue to stick the
petals around the stick.
5) Then use green tape or
tissue paper and wrap it around
the ice lolly stick to make a
green stem for the flower.
6) Lastly, once you finish
covering the stick sort of
crunch the petals or leave it
open however you want your
poppy to be then your flower
is complete.

7. Thank
you for
listening