May 1—Mother Goose Day / Children’s Book Week
Create a Soft Book, Cover and Page 1
- Printable Bear Template
- 1 Sheet of felted wool, any color
- Brown, tan, and light tan felt
- Adhesive felt or foam letters
- Embroidery thread, any color
- Fabric glue
- Scissors
- Needle
May 2—Brothers and Sisters Day
Create a Soft Book, Page 2: Peek-a-boo Heart
- Add page 2 to your soft book with this Peek-a-boo Heart!
- Printable heart and blanket template
- Adhesive letters or fabric paint
- Blue, pink, and purple felt – or colors of your choice
- Fabric glue
May 3—Paranormal Day
Create a soft book, Page 3—Ghost
Printable Ghost Template, available here and on the blog post
- White fleece or felt
- Black fleece or felt
- Adhesive felt or foam letters
- Fabric glue
May 4—International Firefighters Day
Create a Soft Book, Page 4—Fire Truck
- Printable Fire Truck Template, available here and on the blog post
- Red, yellow, black, white, and blue felt or fleece
- Adhesive felt or foam letters
- Fabric glue
- Scissors
May 5—Cinco de Mayo
Create a Soft Book, Page 5—Parrot
- Printable Parrot Template, available here and on the blog post
- Yellow, green, orange, white, and black or brown felt, fleece, or foam
- Adhesive felt or foam letters
- Fabric glue
- Scissors
May 6—International Space Day
Create a Soft Book, Page 6—Rocket
- Printable Rocket Template, available here and on the blog post
- Adhesive felt or foam letters
- Tin foil
- Felt, fleece, or foam in various colors of your choice (I used aqua, white, yellow, and purple)
- Scissors
- Strong glue or fabric glue
May 7—National Train Day
All Aboard Maze
- Printable All Aboard Maze!, available here and on the blog post
May 8—Mother’s Day
Make a Mother’s Day Hug Card
- Paper plate
- Colored pencils or crayons
- Black, orange, and red markers
May 9—Gardening for Wildlife Month Activity
Painted Bottle Vase
- Painted Bottle Vase
- Plastic or glass bottle
- Multi-surface craft paint in your favorite color
- Paint brush
- Wax paper
May 10—Gardening for Wildlife Month Activity
Spoon Flowers
- Printable Flower Petal Template
- 3 – 4 plastic ice-cream spoons, these are available in different colors at party supply stores or you can paint them the color you’d like
- Multi-purpose paint in colors of your choice, if you are painting the spoons
- Heavy craft paper in your favorite flower colors
- Green ribbon
- Glue gun or strong glue
- Scissors
- Beans, sand, pebbles, or glass or plastic beads to fill the vase
May 11—Gardening for Wildlife Activity
Creative Cattails
- 6-inch by 5/8-inch craft stick
- 3/16–inch by 12-inch dowel
- Chunky brown yarn,
- Green origami paper, 8-inch square
- Green craft paint
- Paint brush
- Glue gun
May 12—Gardening for Wildlife Activity
Who’s Hiding in the Garden? Dot-to-Dot Puzzles
- Printable Dot-to-Dot, Page 1, available here and on the blog post
- Printable Dot-to-Dot, Page 2, available here and on the blog post
May 13—Gardening for Wildlife Activity
Guess the Garden Differences
- Printable Guess the Garden Differences puzzle, available here and on the blog post
May 14—International Astronomy Day Activity
Make a Room Observatory
- Adhesive glow-in-the-dark stars, planets, rocketships
May 15—International Day of Families
Make Your Own Recipe Box
- A small box with a hinged lid or separate lid—a Twinings Tea Box works well as does a small wooden box available from craft stores
- Washi tape or paint
- Paint brush
May 16—National Biographer’s Day
Recipe Box Label and Recipe Cards
- Printable My Family’s Recipes Label, available here and on the blog post
- Printable Recipe Cards, available here and on the blog post
May 17—World Baking Day Activity
Festive Vanilla Cupcakes
Cupcake Ingredients
- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Granulated sugar
- Unsalted butter
- Egg whites
- Greek yogurt (or plain; or regular yogurt; or even sour cream)
- Vanilla almond milk (or cow’s milk; or soy milk; or plain almond milk)
- Pure vanilla extract seeds scraped from 1/2 split vanilla bean
Vanilla Bean Frosting Ingredients
- Unsalted butter
- Confectioners sugar
- Heavy cream
- Vanilla extract seeds scraped from 1/2 split vanilla bean1
- Salt
May 18—International Museum Day Activity
Peanut Butter – M & M Cookies
Ingredients
- All purpose flour
- Baking soda
- Butter
- Peanut butter
- Light brown sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Egg,
- Egg yolk
- Vanilla
- Cinnamon
- Ground ginger
- M & Ms
- Chocolate chips (for extra chocolate)
May 19—Photography Month
- Printable Bake Me a Puzzle! Word Search and Solution, available here and on the blog post
May 20—Bike to Work Day
- Printable Baker’s Dozen Maze and Solution, available here and on the blog post
May 21—Get Caught Reading Month
Reading is Magic! Wand
- Wooden dowel
- Wooden ball with a hole
- Paint in your favorite colors
- Ribbon, jewels, or other material to decorate your wand
- Glue gun or strong glue
- Paintbrush
May 22—National Maritime Day
- Printable Show Your Colors! puzzle and Solution, available here and on the blog post
Follow the Shells Game
- Cardboard egg carton
- Green tissue paper in different hues
- Green construction or craft paper
- A bead, bean or marble
- Glue
- Scissors
May 24—Brothers Day
Day-Glow Match Up
- Printable Day-Glo Match Up puzzle, available here and on the blog post
May 25—Photography Month
Fantastic Frame!
- Cardboard or bare wood frame, available at craft stores
- Stickers
- Buttons
- Jewels
- Beads
- Glue
- Paint in your favorite color
- Paint brush
May 26—Mystery Day
What Goes Missing in the Dark game
- 5 – 12 small objects to first display and then remove
May 27—National Family Month
We Are All Family Word Search
- Printable We Are All Family Word Search and Solution, available here and on the blog
May 28—Get Caught Reading Month Title
- Baby Bird Coloring Page, available here and on the blog
May 29—Learn about Composting Day
Creative Composting Word Search
- Printable Creative Composting Word Search and Solution, available here and on the blog
May 30—Memorial Day
- Memorial Day Word Scramble, available here and on the blog post
May 31—Web Designer Day
- Kids and Computers Find the Differences puzzle, available here and on the blog post