A child friendly National Day Calendar for May, designed with simple themes and activity ideas that work well for classrooms, homeschool, or family fun.
Check out these tales from Mother Goose.
May 1 National Mother Goose Day 🦢
Have some fun outside today.
May 2 NATIONAL PLAY OUTSIDE DAY🛴🤾🏾♀️🎾⛹🏽
Watch a movie about Casper the friendly ghost.
May 3 NATIONAL PARANORMAL DAY👻
Have a nice glass of orange juice.
May 4 NATIONAL ORANGE JUICE DAY🍊
Read or draw a picture about Astronauts.
May 5 NATIONAL ASTRONAUT DAY👩🏽🚀
Learn about the importance of nurses.
May 6 NATIONAL NURSES DAY🧑🏾⚕️
Say thank you to your teacher today.
May 7 NATIONAL TEACHER APPRECIATION DAY👩🏻🏫
Try a Coca cola today.
May 8 NATIONAL HAVE A COKE DAY🥤
Make some words from magnetic letters today.
May 9 NATIONAL ALPHABET MAGNET DAY🔤
Clean up your room today.
May 10 NATIONAL CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM DAY 🧹
Eat what you want today or draw a picture of what you want to eat.
May 11 NATIONAL EAT WHAT YOU WANT DAY🍩
Write a limerick or read a book about limericks.
May 12 NATIONAL LIMERICK DAY
Bake an apple pie today or draw a picture of an apple pie.
May 13 NATIONAL APPLE PIE DAY🥧
Learn to make buttermilk biscuits today.
May 14 NATIONAL BUTTERMILK BISCUIT DAY
Give someone flowers today or draw pictures of beautiful flowers.
May 15 BRING FLOWERS TO SOMEONE DAY 💐
Learn about sea monkeys today.
May 16 NATIONAL SEA MONKEY DAY
Have a pizza party today or draw a picture of you having a pizza party.
May 17 NATIONAL PIZZA PARTY DAY 🍕
Go on a trip to a museum or read a book about museums.
May 18 INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY
Try to make a Devil's Good Cake.
May 19 NATIONAL DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE DAY
Learn about the importance of bees.
May 20 WORLD BEE DAY 🐝
Learn about diversity today.
May 21 WORLD DAY FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY 🧒🧑🏿👧👧🏿👩🏽🦽🧑🦽
Make and try vanilla pudding.
May 22 NATIONAL VANILLA PUDDING DAY
Learn about turtles today or draw a picture of a turtle.
May 23 WORLD TURTLE DAY 🐢
Go on a scavenger hunt today or read a book about scavenger hunts. You can also create your own scavenger hunt.
May 24 NATIONAL SCAVENGER HUNT DAY
Learn how to be plastic free today.
May 25 INTERNATIONAL PLASTIC FREE DAY ♻️
Learn to make paper airplanes.
May 26 NATIONAL PAPER AIRPLANE DAY✈️
Eat some grapes today or draw a pictures of grapes.
May 27 NATIONAL GRAPE DAY
Make a nice burger today out of play dough or draw a picture of a burger today.
May 28 NATIONAL BEEF BURGER DAY
Get some new flip flops today or draw a picture of some flip flops.
May 29 NATIONAL FLIP FLOP DAY🩴
Be creative today! Create a picture, painting or anything you want to create.
