Time to put on our shades and protect our eyes for National Sunglasses Day! 😎☀️🕶️ This day provides a fun and crucial theme for exploring sun safety, eye health, weather, and personal health…

📝✨📖 National Writing Day is a day dedicated to encouraging everyone, especially young children, to find their voice through writing. Writing is not just about letters and words; it’s about sharing ideas…

Discover a world of magic and imagination! ✨🧚‍♀️🌸 International Fairy Day is a special, unofficial celebration that happens every year on June 24th. It’s a day dedicated to the whimsical…

Discover the fascinating world of minibeasts! 🐞🦋🐛 Insect Week is a whole week dedicated to learning about all the tiny, creepy crawly creatures that live all around us. Insects are super important for our planet…

Discover the heroes who help our community every day for Public Service Day! 👩‍🚒👨‍🏫👮‍♀️ For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day…

Discover the amazing world of engineering for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED)! 👷‍♀️⚙️🌉 This day helps us remember that anyone, whether they are a boy or a girl…

Let's look up to the tallest animal on Earth for World Giraffe Day! 🦒🌍🌿 It's about inspiring children with a love for wildlife, teaching them about the importance of protecting endangered…

🎶🥁🎤 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day provides a wonderfully creative and crucial theme for exploring music and sound, expressive movement…

Pack a basket, grab a blanket, and head outside for a special meal! 🧺🌳🍎 International Picnic Day is a day to celebrate the simple pleasure of having a meal outdoors, whether it's in the garden, at the park…

Let's munch on some crunchy carrots and tasty tomatoes for Eat your Veg Day! 🥕🥦😋 This day reminds us that vegetables are like superheroes for our bodies—they are full of good things that…

Get ready, get set, and get active for National School Sports Week! 🏃‍♀️⚽️🤸‍♀️ This week provides a wonderfully active and crucial theme for exploring physical education (PE), sport, exercise, teamwork…

Learn how to be super waste-reducing heroes on World Refill Day! 💧♻️ For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day provides a wonderfully practical…

😊✨ Smile Power Day is a special day celebrated every year on June 15th. It's all about celebrating the wonderful feeling we get when we smile and when we make someone else smile…

Let's dive into the big, blue ocean and learn all about it for World Oceans Day 🌊🐬🐠 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms…

This week provides a wonderfully positive and crucial theme for exploring the environment, recycling, plants, animals, conservation, sustainability, and understanding the world…

Let's flutter our wings and learn about our beautiful butterfly friends! 🦋🌸 Butterfly Education and Awareness Day (BEAD) is a fantastic time to think about how we can protect butterflies and…

Let's explore our amazing planet and learn how to be its best friend! 🌳🌎💧 World Environment Day is all about making a difference, big or small, to keep our Earth healthy and…

This day provides a fantastic and active theme for exploring transport, road safety, exercise, health and well-being, the environment, outdoor play, and understanding the world. It's about…

Learn how to stay safe and sound during Child Safety Week! 🛡️🚦🏠 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this week provides a crucial…

Let's give a big cheer for our amazing parents and carers! 💖👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day provides…

Roar with excitement and dig into the incredible world of dinosaurs! 🦖🌋🦕 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day provides a wonderfully…

Let's step outside and get wild with nature! 🌳🦋🐞 '30 Days Wild’ is a fantastic nature challenge that happens every June, organised by The Wildlife Trusts across the UK. It's all about doing one…

Saturday 23rd - Sunday 31st May 2026: 🌱🥕 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, National Children’s Gardening Week provides a wonderfully rich and hands-on theme for exploring plants, life cycles, food sources, nature, science (growth and change), the environment, outdoor play,…

Saturday 23rd May 2026: 🐢🌊 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, World Turtle Day provides a wonderful and engaging theme for exploring animals (especially reptiles, sea creatures, and pets), habitats (ocean, desert, wetlands, gardens), conservation, life cycles,…

Friday 22nd May 2026: 🌳🐠 International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) is a special day celebrated every year on May 22nd. It was started by the United Nations to help everyone understand something very important called 'biological diversity', or 'biodiversity' for short. Biodiversity means…

Wednesday 20th May 2026: 🔢➕ For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, National Numeracy Day provides a fantastic and practical theme for exploring counting, number recognition, shapes, patterns, problem-solving, and early mathematical concepts. It's about building a positive attitude…

Wednesday 20th May 2026: 🐝🍯 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, World Bee Day provides a wonderful and engaging theme for exploring minibeasts, plants, life cycles, food sources, the environment, and understanding the world (the world around us). It's about introducing…

Monday 18th May 2026: 🏛️🔎 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, International Museum Day provides a fantastic and engaging theme for exploring history, science, art, culture, discovery, role-play, and understanding the world (the world around us). It's about sparking children's curiosity,…

Sunday 10th May 2026: 👧👦 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, National Children’s Day provides an incredibly broad and foundational opportunity to explore all aspects of a child's health, safety, well-being, emotions, physical development, rights, and…

Friday 15th May 2026: 🐾🌱 Endangered Species Day is a special day celebrated every year on the third Friday in May. It was started by a group called the National Endangered Species Act Education Centre in the United States and was recognised…