Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work & School Day
Improve your day by bringing your teddy bear to work or school, and spending the day with one of your oldest, truest, and cutest friends who has never let you down.
Celebrate workplace and school wellness by encouraging nostalgia and comfort through stuffed animals, driving retail sales of plush toys and workplace morale initiatives.
- Share your teddy bear's origin story—which childhood companion are you bringing?
- Workplace wellness angle: how comfort items reduce stress and boost team morale
- Retail flash: limited-edition teddy bears for collectors and gift-givers
- School fundraiser tie-in: donate teddy bears to children's charities
Let’s start with the history of the Teddy Bear, popular legend says that it all started from a hunting expedition by Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, President of the United States from 1901-1909. In 1902 he was on a hunting expedition with several other hunters but had yet to bag himself a bear as the other hunters had.
His attendants hunted down a bear and had cornered it and clubbed it into submission, and then tied it to a tree waiting for the President to shoot it. Roosevelt refused on the grounds that it was utterly unsportsmanlike, and it took no time at all for someone to come up with the idea of selling stuffed bears called “Teddy Bears” to children everywhere.
But who first came up with the Teddy Bear? Believe it or not it was created in two places almost simultaneously by unrelated people, Richard Steiff of Germany, and Morris Michtom of the United States. Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work & School Day is your reminder that your childhood companion never abandoned you, and they deserve to not be abandoned by you. So take your favorite childhood stuffed bear to work, or to school, and let it spend a day with you now that the child is protected is all grown up.