Need May month activities for kids? These Spring seasonal holiday ideas, crafts and printables will help you create a fun May activities calendar for kids and classroom — including fun themed toddler activities and daycare projects ideas! Great May theme resources for teaching preschool and up during the month of May!
May Month Activities and Spring Ideas For Kids
These are fun May activity ideas for all ages — from May themes for kindergarten, May activity calendar for preschoolor or toddler or May themes for elementary school and up!
First, let’s talk about some themes for May and get ideas for fun things to do with kids in May! These are themes you can use for May school activities, outdoor spring ideas, May reading activities and more!
May Themes Activity Calendar Ideas
What are themes for the month of May?
- Spring
- Spring flowers, leaves, and blooming plants
- Spring showers
- Thunderstorms and Spring weather
- Gardening
- May the Fourth Be With You
- Graduations
- Bird crafts
- Cicadas
- Bees and Butterflies (Pollinators)
- Cinco de Mayo
- Gifts from the Garden Month
- National Hamburger Month
- Asian American Month
- National Salad Month
- National Photograph Month
Don’t miss our full things to do in May activities for kids and May arts and crafts ideas below. Keep scrolling for our list of activity ideas for May!
May National Days, Dates, and Holidays for Kids
Add some of these fun May events to your learning and spring kids activities! Great May events calendar for educators, homeschoolers, and fun May activities for kids after school!
What holidays happen in May?
- Wildflower Week (Second week in May)
- National Bike Week (Third week in May)
- National Police Week (Third week in May)
- May Day (May 1)
- Kentucky Derby (varies, first Saturday in May)
- Herb Day (May 1)
- Mother Goose Day (May 1)
- May Day (May 1)
- Brothers and Sisters Day (May 2)
- Save the Rhino Day (May 1)
- World Press Freedom Day (May 3)
- Star Wars Day (May 4)
- Bird Day (May 4)
- National Teacher Day (May 4)
- Cinco de May (May 5)
- Cartoonist Day (May 5)
- Bike To School Day (May 5)
- Beverage Day (May 6)
- National Day of Prayer (May 7)
- Space Day (varies, first Friday in May)
- No Socks Day (May 8)
- National Train Day (May 8)
- Mother’s Day (May 9)
- Clean Up Your Room Day (May 10)
- International Hummus Day (May 13)
- National Chocolate Chip Day (May 15)
- National Sea Monkey Day (May 16)
- Love A Tree Day (May 16)
- International Museum Day (May 18)
- World Plant A Vegetable Garden Day (May 19)
- Pick Strawberries Day (May 20)
- World Bee Day (May 20)
- Lucky Penny Day (May 23)
- World Turtle Day (May 23)
- Sally Ride Day (May 26)
- National Hamburger Day (May 28)
- Learn About Composting Day (May 29)
- International Jazz Day (May 29)
- Indy 500 Race Day (May 30)
- Water A Flower Day (May 30)
- Memorial Day (May 31, last Monday of May)
These special days in May (aka: the May Observances Calendar) are all fun themes for May activities (even fun for May activities for adults, too!)! Ask what is the best theme for May for your kids and use that as a jumping off point for your monthly activity ideas! Let us know if we missed any fun days for monthly activity calendar!
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May Preschool Activities / May Activities for Toddlers
Here are fun things to do with preschoolers in May (and even toddler ideas for May), so be sure to add some of these to your May preschool activity calendar!
What can I teach my child in May?
- Make Spring bug pudding cups (great for garden themed snacks and planting fairy gardens!)
- Do May crafts for kids and create spring flower handprints
- Plant flower seeds for Wildflower Week (Second week in May) (Get a flower kit!)
- Go on a nature hike and talk about the importance of trees for Love A Tree Day (May 16)
- Make a Spring sensory bottle or Spring sensory bin
- Read Mother Goose books for Mother Goose Day (May 1)
- Plant a pizza herb garden for Herb Day (May 1)
- Read about trains for National Train Day (May 8) (this is a fun one!)
- Have fun with toes on No Socks Day (May 8)
- Hatch a butterfly
- Snack on hummus and veggies for International Hummus Day (May 13)
- Make chocolate chip cookies for National Chocolate Chip Day (May 15)
- Grab a Free Summer Printables Pack / free coloring pages for May coloring printables (great for June activities, too!)
- Make a flower bee craft for World Bee Day and do some bee lessons and activities (May 20)
What are your favorite activities to do in May with little kids? Let us know and we’ll add them to our list!
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MONTH OF MAY ACTIVITIES CALENDAR IDEAS
May Month Activities: Spring Crafts, Printables, and Ideas for Kids / Fun Things to Do With Kids
- Listen to a kids’ podcast on Spring thunderstorms and lightning
- Get some lessons about Spring lightning and thunderstorms
- Learn about the Cicadas
- Head outside and practice “writing” and doing math using sticks, sand, leaves, rocks, twigs and more
- Learn about Asian culture for Asian American Month with Kid’s Guide to Asian American History: More than 70 Activities
- Make May Day baskets for May Day (May 1) (one of our favorite May art activities!)
- Do some May the 4th be with you school activities for Star Wars Day (May 4)
- Make a bird feeder for Bird Day (May 4)
- Have kids write a letter to someone who has taught them something for National Teacher Day (May 4)
- Learn about Cinco de May (May 5) and throw a Cinco de Mayo party for kids (get Cinco de May fun party food here)
- Create cartoons and learn about cartoonists for Cartoonist Day (May 5)
- Learn about the history of National Day of Prayer (May 7)
- Study space for Space Day (May 7) (Thinking about telescopes? CHECK THIS OUT!)
- Talk about prayer and spend time praying for National Day of Prayer (May 7)
- Make a Mother’s Day card using one of these mom quotes (May 9)
- Make rainbow spaghetti for spring showers bring May flowers
- Have fun with this free outdoor scavenger hunt printable for Love A Tree Day (May 16)
- Get a sea monkey kit for National Sea Monkey Day (May 16)
- Learn about planting a garden for World Plant A Vegetable Garden Day (May 19)
- Read about turtles for World Turtle Day (May 23)
- Learn about composting for Learn About Composting Day (May 29) (grab this awesome kit, too!)
- Listen to jazz and learn about jazz for International Jazz Day (May 29)
- Learn about the Indy 500 Race for Indy 500 Race Day (May 30)
- Learn about Memorial Day (May 31, last Monday of May)
- Make homemade bubbles to enjoy the Spring weather!
Do you have favorite May themed activities? Let us know in the comments!
HOPE YOU HAVE FUN WITH THESE MAY MONTH ACTIVITIES AND MAY THEMES FOR KIDS!
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