Friday the 13th FREE Printables

Tomorrow is Friday the 13th, so in honor of this "unlucky and superstitious" holiday, I'm giving away FREE printables!

First I made this banner...black and white is supposed to represent the ying and the yang, the lucky and the unlucky, the good and bad.  So it was appropriate! :)

Here's the link to the downloadable banner:

Friday the 13th Banner

And here's the subway art I created for this holiday.  I'm not superstitious by any means, nor do I believe in Santa Claus, but it doesn't stop me from celebrating the day and making fun memories with my kids.

Here's the link to the downloadable subway art:

Friday the 13th subway art

And if you're still wondering how this tradition came about, check out all the theories from Wickipedia:

Several theories have been proposed about the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition.

• One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day. 
• In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock, twelve gods of Olympus, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, the 12 successors of Muhammad in Shia Islam, twelve signs of the Zodiac, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or aNorse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table results in the death of one of the diners. 
• Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales,[5] and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects. 
• Friday is also the day when Jesus Christ was crucified, making it through folklore and adding to its unpopularity. 
• One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth,[6] in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.[1]
• Records of the superstition are rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common. The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and in John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry. On Friday, 13 October 1307, hundreds of the Knights Templar were arrested in France, an action apparently motivated financially and undertaken by the efficient royal bureaucracy to increase the prestige of the crown. Philip IV was the force behind this ruthless move, but it has also tarnished the historical reputation of Clement V. From the very day of Clement V's coronation, the king falsely charged the Templars with heresy, immorality and abuses, and the scruples of the Pope were compromised by a growing sense that the burgeoning French State might not wait for the Church, but would proceed independently.[7] However, experts agree that this is a relatively recent correlation, and most likely a modern-day invention.[5][8][9]